Spend where the marketplaces can't outbid you.
Since 2025, tariffs have raised what many gadgets cost to bring in: consumer tech importers paid $23.5 billion in US tariffs in 2025, more than five times the year before, according to the Consumer Technology Association. And search for almost any gadget, like wireless earbuds or a phone charger, and the Shopping ads fill up with Amazon and the big electronics chains. They can outbid most brands on those broad searches, and many of the people who click are still comparing.
So the budget goes where you have an edge: searches for your brand and model names, searches that name the exact device a product fits, and products only you sell. Shopping campaigns are split by product line, each with its own profit target, so low-margin cables don't take budget from the products that make money. Each line's target is set from its landed cost, so when a duty changes, the target changes with it. Search ads on your own name keep people looking for you from landing on a reseller's listing first. More in Google Ads.
- Your brand and model names covered by your own ads
- Shopping split by product line, each with its own profit target
- Broad searches tested against your break-even ROAS