Smart Bidding is powerful at auction-time bid optimization, but trusting it fully without strategic oversight creates a dependency problem that caps growth and amplifies structural flaws. This article breaks down the five most common ways full automation trust destroys account performance, explains why the algorithm scales bad decisions faster than it solves them, and makes the case for combining a proprietary optimization engine with senior human strategy as the only model that consistently scales.
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