How to build New products-driven campaigns

Why brands use New product campaigns

Google optimized campaigns toward products with existing data. This means new products rarely get tested. Instead, they stay invisible while algorithms keep pushing proven winners. A dedicated campaign solves this by forcing visibility for new items.

With a budget reserved only for new items, you give them the best chance to generate clicks, build conversion history, and graduate into your main campaigns stronger.

This strategy is ideal for ecommerce brands with frequent product launches, businesses offering seasonal or trend-driven products, marketers looking to accelerate the learning phase for new items, and advertisers frustrated by poor performance of new products in their main campaigns.

Benefits

Make sure your new products are visible from day one
Reduces the chance of products turning into “zombies”
Builds a stronger data foundation for future campaigns
Allows creative messaging focused on “new arrivals”
Supports faster product adoption in competitive categories

Downsides

Higher initial cost per conversion (no history to optimize on)
Campaign is temporary, so items may not reach peak performance before moving on
Volume of products can fluctuate heavily (depending on launch frequency)
Requires regular monitoring and campaign refreshes

How structuring New product campaigns looks like

The goal is to give dedicated visibility to every new product.

Key principles:

Define what “new” means for your business (7, 14, or 30 days depending on catalog size and launch cycle).
Keep products in this campaign only temporarily. Once they gain conversions, move them into main campaigns.
Allocate a modest but consistent budget to fuel the algorithm’s learning phase.

Segmentation approaches:

We generally do not recommend splitting your new products into multiple asset groups. While there may be exceptions, most brands do not have enough products to justify a detailed breakdown. Additionally, algorithms tend to perform better with a single asset group containing 50 products rather than splitting them into 30 category-based asset groups, some of which may remain empty.

Instead, follow these best practices:

Use one general Asset Group for simplicity.
Headlines: emphasize “New arrivals,” “Just launched,” or “Latest collection.”
Descriptions: highlight USPs and freshness (“Be the first to try…,” “New season drop”).
Images: choose visuals that work across categories (avoid over-segmentation).

Set up a graduation rule

Products remain in the New campaign until they hit 7–30 days, or until they achieve 20+ conversions. Once qualified, they should “graduate” into your main campaigns and be excluded from the New campaign. Products that fail to perform can either be tested further (Zombie campaigns) or paused.