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AI in Marketing
AI Bidding (Smart Bidding)
Automated bid strategies that use machine learning to optimize toward a goal.
By Brandon Mina·CEO, BrandPilot AI·Updated November 2026
Short answer
AI bidding, known in Google Ads as Smart Bidding, is a set of automated bid strategies that use machine learning to set bids for each auction toward a goal, such as conversions, target cost per acquisition or target ROAS. It weighs many signals in real time, and works best with accurate conversion data.