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Founder & Chief Pondering Officer @ ZATO Marketing

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Kirk Williams is the Founder & Chief Pondering Officer at ZATO Marketing. He has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential PPCers in the world by PPC Hero 6 years in a row (2016-2021), has written articles for many industry publications, including Shopify, Moz, PPC Hero, Search Engine Land, and Microsoft.**

**Kirk is a frequent guest on digital marketing podcasts and webinars and an avid conference speaker, having traveled around the world to talk about Paid Search (especially Shopping Ads).

In 2023, Kirk had the privilege of speaking at the TEDx Billings on one of his many passions, Stop the Scale: Redefining Business Success.

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Author - Kirk Williams
AMAZON ADS GUIDE

Amazon Ads Automation Is Not A Safety Net: How To Prevent Budget Waste Before It Snowballs

There’s an old story about a man who hired a very fast horse to deliver his letters. The horse was excellent and covered ground in half the time. The only problem was that nobody had told the horse where to go, so it just ran — very efficiently, very quickly — in completely the wrong direction.

Author - Kirk Williams
AMAZON ADS GUIDE

Why Your Amazon Ads Report Is Lying to You (And What It’s Not Showing)

Most advertisers learn the limits of Amazon Ads reporting after they’ve already made a bad decision. A campaign may look weak, so you pause it. A week later, it turns out that the campaign was driving conversions that hadn’t shown up yet. Now you’re unsure what to trust.

Author - Kirk Williams
PAID SEARCH EXPERT SERIES DATA STUDIES

We Analyzed ~20,000 Google Ads Accounts. Here’s What Actually Drives RSA Performance (Hint: It’s Not Ad Strength)

Many advertisers have long viewed Google’s Ad Strength as the definitive north star for Responsive Search Ad (RSA) success, believing that a higher score guarantees better performance. But is this common perception actually supported by the results? Our latest data says otherwise.