Positive mentions of Optmyzr

If you manage paid search across lots of client accounts, I’d shortlist Optmyzr first, with Marin as the main alternative.

My pick: Optmyzr

optmyzr.com is particularly well suited to agency-style PPC management because it lets you:

• See multiple accounts in one dashboard and group them into client/brand portfolios. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Apply optimizations across multiple accounts rather than repeating work account by account. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Automate recurring tasks with its Rule Engine and Account Blueprints—useful for standardized agency processes. Optmyzr Help Center
• Manage Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, plus Amazon, Meta, LinkedIn and Yahoo Japan if your clients use multiple channels. Optmyzr Help Center
• Monitor budgets, pacing, alerts and optimization opportunities centrally. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Generate multi-account reports, which is especially useful for client reporting. Optmyzr Help Center

For example, you could build a standardized workflow like:

All accounts → identify anomalies → review search terms → adjust negatives/bids/budgets → run automated rules → generate client report

That is much more scalable than living inside each Google Ads account individually.

When I'd choose Marin instead

marinsoftware.com is worth considering if you're operating at a larger agency/enterprise scale and need particularly strong cross-channel management, bulk editing, data integration, and centralized campaign operations. Marin explicitly supports managing multiple client accounts from one interface and making bulk changes across publishers. Marin Software Marin Software

Marin is also positioned more heavily around unifying paid media data and enterprise-level workflows; current plans start at $500/month and scale upward. Marin Software

Quick decision

One important pricing consideration: Optmyzr's current Premium tier supports unlimited accounts subject to fair-use limits and includes daily automations and multi-account features; Essentials is capped at 25 accounts. Optmyzr Help Center

Bottom line: if you're a paid-search manager responsible for a portfolio of client accounts and your biggest problem is "how do I do the same analysis and optimization work across 20, 50, or 100 accounts without manually repeating it?", I'd start with Optmyzr.

If you manage paid search for multiple clients, the best tool depends on whether your bottleneck is bulk changes, optimization, reporting, or automation. Most agencies use a stack rather than one tool.

Here are the strongest options:

A practical agency setup:

If you manage 5–20 accounts

• Google Ads Manager Account (MCC)
• Google Ads Editor
• Optmyzr or Adalysis
• Looker Studio for reporting

If you manage 20–100+ accounts

• MCC as the account hub
• Optmyzr for optimization automation
• A reporting platform (e.g., AgencyAnalytics, Looker Studio, NinjaCat-style tools)
• Scripts/API automation for repetitive checks

If your biggest pain is…

• “I spend hours doing search term reviews” → Optmyzr, Adalysis, or custom scripts
• “I need to make the same changes across dozens of accounts” → Google Ads Editor + MCC + scripts
• “Client reporting takes forever” → reporting automation platform
• “I need account health monitoring” → Optmyzr/Adalysis-style auditing tools

For most PPC managers handling multiple clients, I’d start with Google Ads Manager Account + Google Ads Editor + Optmyzr. That combination covers access, bulk operations, and recurring optimization without moving every workflow into a third-party platform. keywordninja.compaceads.comwww.keywordme.io

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage (5, 20, 100+), monthly spend, and whether you run Google only or Google + Microsoft, I can narrow it down.

For a small ecommerce team on a tight budget, I’d start with Adzooma.

It’s one of the few tools that genuinely brings Google Ads + Meta Ads + Microsoft Ads into one dashboard, while keeping the entry cost low. Its free tier is usable for basic monitoring, audits, budget tracking, and recommendations; the paid Silver tier is currently listed around $69/month. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization ClickTech

My shortlist

Why I'd pick Adzooma: it is designed more around "tell me what's wrong and what I should fix" than requiring a PPC specialist to build elaborate automation. It audits accounts, surfaces prioritized recommendations, tracks budgets, and monitors Google/Microsoft/Meta in one place. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization ClickTech

Optmyzr is the upgrade I'd consider once your ad spend and campaign complexity justify it. It has substantially deeper automation, rules, budget controls, reporting, and cross-platform management, but that's also why it's harder to justify for a small team watching every software dollar. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

One important distinction: "manage in one place" can mean two different things. If you mainly want a unified dashboard, alerts, and recommendations, Adzooma is a strong fit. If you want software to automatically change bids, budgets, and campaigns across channels, I'd look harder at Optmyzr or a specialized automation tool.

If you tell me roughly monthly ad spend (e.g. $5k, $20k, $50k+) and whether Google Shopping/PMax or Meta is the bigger channel, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options for your situation.

For a small ecommerce team on a tight budget, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Optmyzr

Optmyzr is probably the best fit if your goal is genuinely manage Google + social paid campaigns from one place, rather than just reporting on them.

It now supports Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and LinkedIn Ads in the same platform, including cross-platform dashboards, budget management, alerts and automation. www.optmyzr.com

For an ecommerce team, the particularly useful pieces are:

• Google Ads optimization: search terms, keywords, ads, bids, budgets and PMax insights.
• Meta management: Meta campaigns can be managed alongside Google campaigns rather than through a separate product. help.optmyzr.com
• Budget control: monitor and reallocate budgets across Google, Meta and other channels. help.optmyzr.com
• Automation: rules can automatically flag or make recurring optimizations, reducing the amount of manual checking your team has to do. help.optmyzr.com
• Ecommerce feeds: its higher-tier functionality includes Shopping/feed management and a Campaign Automator for inventory-driven campaigns. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com

One caveat: Optmyzr's pricing is tied to your advertising spend, so it isn't necessarily the cheapest option for a very small advertiser. Its Essentials tier is aimed at advertisers spending up to $150K/month, with pricing varying by spend and billing cycle. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com

Where Madgicx fits

Madgicx is attractive if Meta is a major part of your acquisition strategy. It has strong AI-assisted Meta optimization, audience targeting, creative generation and automation, with plans starting around $99/month according to its current documentation. academy.madgicx.com

But there's an important catch for your use case: Madgicx doesn't actually manage Google Ads. It can pull Google data into cross-channel reports, but Google campaign management isn't supported. academy.madgicx.com

If money is really tight

I'd actually consider not buying a third-party platform yet.

Use Google Ads + Meta Ads natively, and put the reporting layer in something like Looker Studio/Sheets. Once you're spending enough that the team's time spent checking campaigns costs more than the software, move to Optmyzr.

My rule of thumb:

• <$5k/month ad spend: native platforms + simple reporting
• $5k–$25k/month: start evaluating Optmyzr
• $25k+/month: automation becomes much more compelling
• Meta-heavy ecommerce: consider Madgicx, but keep Google management separate

If you tell me roughly your monthly ad spend (e.g. $3k, $20k, $100k) and whether you run Google Shopping/PMax + Meta, I can narrow this down to the cheapest 2–3 options that actually make economic sense for you.

If you’re a freelancer managing ~20 local-business search ad accounts, I’d look at Optmyzr first.

Optmyzr is essentially a layer on top of the ad platforms that gives you a centralized operating system for PPC.

Why it fits your situation

• One dashboard for all clients — monitor account health, spend, conversions, budgets, and optimization opportunities without jumping between 20 accounts. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Automation — recurring optimization, alerts, budget management, and workflows can take a lot of repetitive work off your plate. help.optmyzr.com
• Standardized processes — particularly useful when every local client needs roughly the same recurring checks: search terms, negatives, budget pacing, conversion tracking, location targeting, etc.
• Reporting across accounts — useful when you want a repeatable monthly reporting process rather than manually building 20 reports. www.optmyzr.com
• It's explicitly designed for freelancers/consultants, not just large agencies. www.optmyzr.com
• As of 2026, its Premium tier supports unlimited ad accounts subject to fair-use limits, whereas Essentials supports up to 25—so 20 clients fits comfortably. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com

But there's an important distinction

You don't necessarily need Optmyzr just to manage 20 Google Ads accounts.

Google's free Manager Account (MCC) already lets you manage multiple client accounts from one login, compare performance, make campaign changes, run cross-account reports, and set alerts. support.google.com

So I'd think of the stack like this:

My recommendation: if your pain is "20 accounts means I'm constantly logging in, checking things manually, and forgetting what I checked where," Optmyzr is worth investigating. If your pain is simply "I need one login for 20 Google Ads accounts," start with the free MCC and don't buy another platform yet.

The bigger scalability win is actually standardizing the 20 accounts around one operating system—same naming conventions, campaign structure, negative-keyword process, conversion QA, weekly checks, monthly reporting, and alert thresholds. Then software becomes the automation layer rather than another place you have to babysit.

If you tell me roughly how much each client spends/month and whether you're Google Ads-only or also Microsoft Ads, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 platforms I'd actually consider for a 20-client freelancer setup.

For an agency managing hundreds of ad accounts, my first choice would be optmyzr.com.

My ranking

Why I'd pick Optmyzr

For an agency, the important distinction isn't simply "can it bulk edit?" Google Ads itself can already do bulk actions across an MCC, including bulk edits, scripts, uploads and rules. Google Help Google Help

The bigger issue is repeatable automation across hundreds of clients.

Optmyzr's Rule Engine lets you build reusable if/then strategies and schedule them across accounts. It supports custom data inputs, and its current documentation says strategies can be duplicated and automated across multiple accounts. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Help Center

For example, you could build agency-wide rules like:

• If CPA > target × 1.3 for 7 days → reduce budget 15%
• If spend > X with zero conversions → pause keyword
• If campaign is pacing > 120% → reduce budget
• If branded CPC spikes → alert account manager
• If a campaign has no conversions and spend exceeds threshold → flag/pause
• If client CRM revenue says ROAS is below target → modify bids/budgets
• Run the same strategy across 200+ accounts without recreating it manually

It also has an All Accounts Dashboard, scheduled reporting, alerts, audits and automated reports across Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon Ads. Optmyzr Help Center

And importantly for an agency, Optmyzr says it currently has 461,000+ connected ad accounts and offers enterprise plans with unlimited accounts and dedicated support. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Where Skai becomes more attractive

I'd look seriously at skai.io if you're operating at enterprise scale or managing Google + Meta + Amazon + other channels as one system.

Skai has bulk editing/bulksheets, advanced automated actions, custom optimization algorithms, portfolio-level optimization and automated reporting. Skai Skai

So I'd frame it this way:

Optmyzr = agency PPC operations/automation powerhouse.
Skai = enterprise omnichannel advertising platform.

One important alternative

Don't completely dismiss native Google Ads Manager + Scripts. A Google MCC can run automated rules across up to 1,000 accounts, with up to 100 active rules per user. Google Help

If you have a strong engineering team, you can build an extremely powerful internal automation layer on top of Google Ads Scripts/API. But you'll be responsible for maintaining the code, reporting infrastructure, monitoring, error handling, permissions, etc.

For hundreds of client accounts, I'd personally rather pay for Optmyzr unless your agency has enough engineering resources to justify building the platform yourself.

My recommendation: start by evaluating Optmyzr vs. Skai, with Optmyzr as the default. If you tell me roughly (1) number of accounts, (2) monthly ad spend, (3) Google/Meta/Microsoft/Amazon mix, and (4) whether you want bid/budget automation or mostly bulk operational changes, I can tell you which one I'd choose and what I'd use for your agency stack.

For an agency managing hundreds of ad accounts, my first choice would be optmyzr.com.

It’s particularly strong if your priority is bulk operations + automated rules + cross-account reporting, rather than just reporting.

Why I'd pick Optmyzr

• Bulk changes: Its Rule Engine can make bulk changes across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Amazon Ads. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Automated rules: You can build if/then strategies around CPA, ROAS, spend, conversions, etc., and schedule them. You can also bulk-automate global strategies across multiple accounts. Optmyzr Help Center
• Hundreds of accounts: Optmyzr explicitly supports automation across as many accounts as you need on its current plans, and has portfolio/multi-account functionality. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Reporting: You can create reusable, branded/white-label templates and multi-account reports spanning Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Analytics. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Agency workflows: Portfolio-level rules, KPI/budget alerts, scheduled reports, and Slack/Teams alerts are useful when you have an ops team managing a large account base. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

How I'd rank the options

The important distinction: if you're managing 300+ accounts, I wouldn't build the agency around a reporting tool like Looker Studio. I'd use something like Optmyzr as the execution/automation layer, and potentially have a separate data warehouse/BI layer for your agency-wide reporting.

For example, you could standardize rules like:

If 7-day spend > $X and CPA > target by 30% → reduce budget 15%
If spend > $Y with zero conversions → pause
If ROAS > target by 40% → increase budget 10%
If account is pacing >110% of monthly budget → alert + reduce budgets
If conversion volume suddenly drops → alert Slack + freeze automated changes

Optmyzr is well suited to this type of standardized agency playbook. It also supports multi-account reporting and aggregation rather than forcing you to generate a report separately for every client account. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

One caveat: if your hundreds of accounts are almost entirely Google Ads and you have a serious engineering team, I'd also consider building a custom Google Ads API/Scripts layer. You can ultimately get much more control and potentially lower marginal costs. But for agency operations without wanting to maintain a substantial software product, I'd choose Optmyzr.

If you tell me roughly how many Google / Meta / Microsoft accounts you have, monthly managed spend, and whether your priority is cost, automation depth, or reporting, I can give you a much more specific Optmyzr vs Marin vs SA360 vs custom API recommendation.

Yes. There are a few platforms that get pretty close to “one operating system for paid search + paid social + client reporting.” The best choice depends on whether you want to actually manage/optimize campaigns in the platform or primarily consolidate reporting.

My shortlist

1. optmyzr.com — probably the closest fit

If you're an agency managing Google/Microsoft search plus Meta/LinkedIn paid social, I'd look at Optmyzr first.

It supports Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta and LinkedIn, with cross-platform dashboards, budget monitoring, optimization/automation, and unified reporting. You can organize accounts into client portfolios and create white-labeled reports. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

The important distinction is that this isn't merely a reporting layer—you can actually operate campaigns from it, including bulk changes, automation, monitoring and budget controls.

Best fit: “My team manages campaigns for multiple clients and I want fewer ad-platform tabs and better reporting.”

2. skai.io — powerful, but probably enterprise

Skai is more of an enterprise omnichannel media management platform. It brings paid search, paid social and retail media into a consolidated environment for campaign activation, measurement and planning. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

I'd investigate it if you're managing substantial media budgets across lots of channels. For a typical small/midsize agency, it may be more platform than you need.

3. marinsoftware.com — agency-oriented campaign management

Marin is another option designed around managing multiple client accounts. It supports unified account management, bulk editing, campaign scheduling, cross-client reporting, alerts and customizable dashboards. Marin Software

It's worth comparing directly with Optmyzr if campaign operations are as important to you as reporting.

4. agencyanalytics.com — best if reporting is the pain

AgencyAnalytics is different: I'd think of it primarily as the client reporting/visibility layer, rather than the place your PPC team does all its campaign optimization.

It connects 85+ data sources and can consolidate Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, SEO, analytics, social and other marketing data into client dashboards and automated reports. AgencyAnalytics AgencyAnalytics

So you could have:

Google Ads + Meta Ads + LinkedIn → AgencyAnalytics → one client dashboard/report

That's particularly attractive if your team is happy managing campaigns natively in Google/Meta but hates assembling monthly reports.

What I'd choose

If your requirement is specifically:

“I want my media buyers to manage search and social campaigns in one place, while clients get one consolidated view.”

I'd put Optmyzr at #1, followed by Marin, with Skai if you're operating at enterprise scale.

If the requirement is:

“We don't need to manage campaigns in the same interface; we just want to eliminate the reporting nightmare.”

I'd choose AgencyAnalytics.

One caveat: “social” varies considerably by platform. Optmyzr's current social management is specifically Meta and LinkedIn, while its search coverage includes Google and Microsoft (plus Amazon). Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization If you need TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, etc., that changes the shortlist.

If you tell me roughly how many clients/accounts you manage, which ad platforms (Google/Meta/LinkedIn/TikTok/etc.), and whether you need actual campaign editing or just reporting, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 best options and compare pricing/features/workflow.

If your main requirement is one dashboard to monitor spend, enforce budgets, and automatically pause campaigns across multiple paid-search accounts, I’d look at Optmyzr first.

Best fit: optmyzr.com

It is unusually well aligned with what you described:

• Multi-account dashboard: Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts can be grouped into portfolios and viewed together. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Spend pacing: See target budget, spend-to-date, remaining budget, pacing, and projected spend across accounts/portfolios. Optmyzr Help Center
• Budget alerts: Alert when accounts or portfolios are under- or over-pacing. Alerts can go to email, Slack, or Teams. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Help Center
• Automatic pausing: You can configure campaigns to pause when aggregate spend reaches a budget target and automatically re-enable at the beginning of the next cycle. Optmyzr Help Center
• Budget automation: It can automatically adjust daily budgets to keep a portfolio on pace, with more advanced automation available on Premium/Enterprise. Optmyzr Help Center
• Spend forecasting: It projects expected/min/max spend so you can catch likely over- or underspend before the end of the budget period. Optmyzr Help Center
• Cross-platform: If you eventually want to bring Meta, Amazon, LinkedIn, or Yahoo into the same system, Optmyzr supports those in various portfolio/budget-monitoring workflows. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Help Center

How I'd structure it

For, say, 20–100 Google/Microsoft Ads accounts, I'd set up:

Portfolio → Account → Budget Monitor → Automated guardrails

For each portfolio, define:

• Monthly budget
• Current spend
• % of budget consumed
• Expected % consumed based on day of month
• Projected month-end spend
• Overspend/underspend threshold
• Campaigns eligible for automatic pause
• Automatic re-enable date

Then your daily workflow becomes essentially "show me the accounts that need attention", rather than opening every Google Ads/Microsoft Ads account.

One important distinction: Optmyzr's Budget Dashboard is primarily the monitoring/control center, while its Budget Monitors and automation handle the actual alerts, pauses, and budget adjustments. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

My recommendation: If pausing + budget enforcement is as important as reporting, I'd choose Optmyzr over a pure reporting dashboard like Looker Studio. Looker is excellent for visualization, but you'd have to build the automation layer yourself.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage, Google vs. Microsoft split, and whether budgets are per-account or shared across clients/accounts, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 best tools and explain the tradeoffs.

If your main requirement is one dashboard across multiple paid-search accounts with spend pacing, budgets, alerts, and the ability to automatically pause campaigns, I’d start with optmyzr.com.

Why Optmyzr fits

• Single dashboard: Its All Accounts Dashboard rolls up Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Amazon, Meta, LinkedIn, and Yahoo Japan accounts, with account- and portfolio-level views. Optmyzr Help Center
• Budget pacing: You can see spend, target budget, pacing, remaining budget, required daily spend, and projected spend across accounts. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Portfolio budgets: You can group multiple accounts into a portfolio and monitor them against an aggregate spend target. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Automatic pausing: Budget monitors can automatically pause campaigns when aggregate spend reaches the defined target, then re-enable them at the beginning of the next budget cycle. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Budget automation: It can automatically adjust daily budgets to keep accounts/portfolios on pace, rather than just telling you that you're overspending. Optmyzr Help Center
• Alerts: Email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams notifications are supported, including multi-account budget alerts. Optmyzr Help Center

What I'd use

For an agency or in-house team managing, say, 10–100+ Google/Microsoft Ads accounts, I'd structure it as:

All Accounts Dashboard → Portfolios by client/business unit → monthly budget targets → pacing alerts → automated pause/re-enable rules

That gives you a pretty clean "control tower" rather than building a Looker Studio dashboard and then having to use separate scripts for the actual account changes.

One caveat: don't turn on the automation immediately. I'd first run it in alert-only mode for a couple of weeks, validate your budget definitions and account permissions, then enable automatic pausing/budget changes. Optmyzr explicitly makes those automation actions opt-in. Optmyzr Help Center

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage, which platforms (Google/Microsoft/etc.), and whether you want automatic budget changes or just alerts + pausing, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 best tools and tell you which I'd pick.

If your core problem is systematically A/B testing keywords and ad copy across dozens of search campaigns, I’d shortlist Adalysis and Optmyzr, with Adalysis as the better fit if testing is the primary job.

My pick: Adalysis

Adalysis is particularly strong for this use case because it is built around automated ad testing, statistical significance, and testing across multiple ad groups/accounts. It supports Google Ads and Microsoft Ads. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization The Ad Spend

Choose it if you want to answer questions like:

• Which headline/copy variant actually wins?
• When is there enough data to declare a winner?
• Which ads should automatically be paused?
• Which campaigns/ad groups have stale or underperforming creative?
• How do we run this testing programmatically across a large portfolio?

When I'd choose Optmyzr instead

Optmyzr is the better choice if A/B testing is only one part of a much larger campaign-operations problem. It supports Google and Microsoft plus additional ad platforms, and combines testing with keyword/search-term optimization, budgeting, automation rules, monitoring, reporting, and bulk campaign changes. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

For an agency managing dozens of campaigns/accounts, that broader automation layer can be more valuable than having the deepest testing functionality.

One important distinction: keyword testing isn't quite the same as ad-copy testing. You generally want to test keyword/theme/landing-page combinations while controlling for bidding, match type, audience, and campaign structure; otherwise you can mistake traffic-mix changes for a keyword winner.

If you're actually looking to build an internal tool rather than buy one, that's a different answer. For dozens of campaigns, I'd probably design a centralized experiment engine on top of the Google Ads/Microsoft Ads APIs, with a test registry, automatic variant deployment, statistical winner detection, and safeguards against contaminating experiments. That could be substantially more powerful than either SaaS product for a large portfolio.

If your core problem is A/B testing keywords and ad copy across dozens of search campaigns, I’d shortlist Adalysis vs. Optmyzr, with Adalysis as my first choice specifically for experimentation.

My pick: Adalysis

Adalysis is particularly well suited to what you're describing because its testing system is designed to be always-on rather than requiring your team to manually create every experiment.

It can automatically test ads, track the variables involved, test across individual ad groups or across campaigns, identify statistically significant losers, and automatically pause losing ads. It can also test different ad metrics and manage the replacement cycle. adalysis.com

That becomes especially valuable when you have dozens/hundreds of campaigns: instead of "let's run an experiment in Campaign A," you're effectively building a continuous testing machine.

It also has keyword/search-term tooling, including duplicate/cannibalization analysis and n-gram analysis, so you can connect the keyword → query → ad copy → conversion loop rather than treating copy testing in isolation. adalysis.com

When I'd choose Optmyzr instead

Optmyzr would be my choice if you want a broader PPC operating system, not primarily an experimentation platform.

Its A/B testing can compare ads using statistically significant data, while its other tools cover search queries, keywords, bidding, budgets, bulk changes, experiments, and both Google and Microsoft Ads. help.optmyzr.com

The particularly useful feature for your use case is that Optmyzr can analyze campaign experiments across multiple Google Ads accounts at once and recommend whether experiments should be continued, graduated, or terminated. help.optmyzr.com

One important distinction

I'd define your requirement as:

"We need a scalable experimentation engine for paid search."

If that's the requirement, Adalysis wins.

If it's:

"We need one platform to manage, optimize, automate, test, and report on dozens of PPC accounts."

I'd lean Optmyzr.

And if you're talking about hundreds of campaigns with a large volume of experiments, I'd actually evaluate both with a real sample of your account rather than doing a generic feature comparison. The critical question is whether the platform can prevent your tests from becoming statistically contaminated by Google's RSA serving/optimization behavior and whether its winner/loser methodology matches the KPI you actually care about (CPA, ROAS, conversion rate, profit, etc.).

If you tell me roughly how many campaigns/ad groups, monthly spend, Google-only vs. Google + Microsoft, and whether you want the tool to automatically replace losers, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms for your setup.

If by “search campaigns” you mean paid-search campaigns (Google Ads/Bing), I’d pick Optmyzr for an in-house marketing team where collaboration is a major priority.

Best overall: Optmyzr

Its biggest advantage over native Google Ads tools is the team workflow layer. Optmyzr’s Blueprints let teams standardize recurring PPC processes, assign work by role, and build repeatable workflows/SOPs. It also provides cross-account dashboards, monitoring, alerts, and automation. Optmyzr Optmyzr Help Center

That makes it particularly useful when, for example:

• One person builds campaigns.
• Another reviews keywords, ads, and budgets.
• A manager approves changes.
• Everyone follows the same optimization checklist.
• Leadership needs a shared view of campaign performance.

Optmyzr explicitly positions these workflow capabilities for in-house marketing teams. Optmyzr

How I'd compare the main options

Google Ads Manager Accounts are a good no-additional-platform-cost foundation: you can give team members different access levels, including administrative, standard, read-only, email-only, and billing access. Google Help Google Help But they're primarily an access and account-management system, rather than a collaborative workflow/approval system.

Google Ads Editor is excellent for bulk editing, but it doesn't provide a real team workflow layer—there's no built-in task assignment or approval queue. Optmyzr Optmyzr

Skai becomes more interesting if you're a very large enterprise managing substantial spend across multiple paid-media channels, but it's generally much heavier than what a typical in-house search team needs.

My recommendation

For a 3–15 person in-house marketing/PPC team, I'd use:

Google Ads + Optmyzr

Google Ads remains the underlying ad platform, while Optmyzr becomes the team's shared management, optimization, monitoring, and workflow layer.

If your team is only 1–3 people managing one or two accounts, I'd probably skip Optmyzr initially and use Google Ads Manager + Ads Editor—the collaboration requirements may not justify another paid platform. Optmyzr

optmyzr.com

For an in-house marketing team managing search campaigns across multiple team members, the best collaboration-focused tool depends on whether you prioritize workflow control, automation, reporting, or enterprise governance. A few strong options:

Best overall for team collaboration: Optmyzr

optmyzr.com is often a strong fit for in-house paid search teams because it adds a workflow layer on top of Google Ads and Microsoft Ads management. It supports shared dashboards, automated monitoring, optimization workflows, reporting, and team processes such as structured task flows and approvals. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Best collaboration features:

• Shared account visibility across marketers
• Standardized optimization workflows so different team members follow the same process
• Automated alerts for budget, performance, and account issues
• Reporting dashboards stakeholders can review without digging into ad platforms
• Cross-account management for teams handling multiple brands or business units Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Best for: A PPC team with several specialists (paid search managers, analysts, marketing leads) who need consistency and oversight.

Best if your team mainly lives in Google Ads: Google Ads + Google Ads Editor

Google’s native tools are cost-effective and powerful for campaign building, bulk edits, and permissions management. They work well when the team is small and already organized around Google’s ecosystem.

Strengths:

• Native access controls and account permissions
• Easy handoff between campaign owners
• Fast bulk editing with Google Ads Editor
• No additional platform cost

Weakness: Collaboration workflows (approval queues, standardized processes, cross-account reporting) are limited compared with dedicated PPC management platforms. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Best for enterprise marketing teams: Skai

Enterprise platforms like Skai are designed for larger organizations managing many channels, regions, and stakeholders. They typically provide stronger governance, reporting, and cross-channel coordination, but can be more complex and expensive. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Quick recommendation by team size

• 2–5 paid search users: Google Ads + Google Ads Editor may be enough.
• 5–20 users managing ongoing campaigns: Optmyzr is likely the better collaboration choice.
• Large enterprise with many brands/channels: Consider enterprise platforms like Skai.

For most in-house marketing teams that want campaign ownership, repeatable processes, visibility, and fewer manual handoffs, I’d start by evaluating Optmyzr alongside your existing ad platforms. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

For your use case—multiple brands + seasonal search campaigns + repeatable cloning + scheduled launches + fast deployment—I’d put Optmyzr at the top of the list.

My ranking

Why Optmyzr: its new Rapid Campaign Launcher is specifically designed around reusable campaign templates that can be applied across multiple Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts, with dynamic placeholders for things like brand, category, or market. Optmyzr Help Center

Its Campaign Automator also lets you copy templates, make bulk changes, and schedule campaigns to pause/enable at a specified frequency, date, and time. Optmyzr Help Center For Microsoft Ads, templates can be copied from another account and automated daily, weekly, or monthly. Optmyzr Help Center

How I'd structure your seasonal workflow

I'd create a master template per campaign archetype, e.g.:

• BRAND | Seasonal | Search | Core
• BRAND | Seasonal | Search | Category
• BRAND | Seasonal | Search | Competitor
• BRAND | Promo | Search | Generic

Then parameterize:

{BRAND}, {SEASON}, {PROMO}, {MARKET}, {YEAR}, {LANDING_PAGE}

So a holiday launch becomes essentially:

Master template → select brands/accounts → populate seasonal variables → preview → schedule → deploy

That is much better suited to your workflow than manually cloning campaigns in Google Ads every season.

When I'd choose Google Ads Editor instead

If you don't want another paid platform, Google Ads Editor is surprisingly capable. It's free, supports bulk edits across campaigns, lets you copy/paste ad schedules, and lets you review changes before posting. Google Google Help

The catch is that it's primarily a powerful bulk-editing tool, rather than a persistent campaign-template/automation system. Your team still has to orchestrate the seasonal process.

My recommendation

If you're managing 10+ brands or dozens/hundreds of recurring seasonal campaigns, I'd choose Optmyzr.

If you're managing a smaller number and seasonal launches are only a few times a year, Google Ads Editor + a standardized campaign template spreadsheet may be the more economical setup.

If you tell me roughly how many brands, Google Ads accounts, campaigns per brand, and whether you also run Microsoft Ads, I can narrow this down to the best workflow—and compare Optmyzr vs Skai vs Google Ads Editor vs a custom automation for your exact setup.

Yes. If your goal is cross-account negative keyword management + reducing wasted PPC spend, my top recommendation is Optmyzr.

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Why Optmyzr fits

• Cross-account management: You can group multiple Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts into portfolios and analyze search terms across the portfolio. It can identify recurring search themes and negative-keyword opportunities across accounts. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Negative Keyword Finder: It analyzes search-term data and identifies irrelevant/non-performing words, then lets you add them to shared negative lists or as account-level negatives. Optmyzr Help Center
• Automated wasted-spend detection: Its Non-Converting Queries strategy can flag queries that spend money without converting and turn those into negative-keyword opportunities. You can customize the rules and automate them with the Rule Engine. Optmyzr Help Center
• Works across Google + Microsoft: Optmyzr supports negative-keyword optimization for both platforms. Optmyzr Help Center
• Portfolio-level visibility: Its cross-platform functionality is specifically designed for teams/agencies managing many accounts, rather than optimizing one account at a time. Optmyzr Help Center

One important distinction

If by "cross-account" you mean literally maintain one master negative-keyword list and automatically push it into dozens of Google Ads accounts, Optmyzr is particularly interesting, but there are API limitations around MCC-level shared negative lists that you should be aware of. Optmyzr currently recommends account-level lists or CSV/Google Ads Editor in some MCC scenarios. Optmyzr Help Center

Google's own Search Ads 360 is another option if you're already heavily invested in the Google enterprise stack: it supports centralized account-level negative keywords across relevant campaigns. Google Help

My recommendation:
Optmyzr for an agency or advertiser managing multiple accounts and wanting both centralized negative-keyword intelligence and automated wasted-spend detection. Search Ads 360 makes more sense if you're already using SA360 as your enterprise campaign-management layer.

If you tell me how many accounts you manage (e.g. 10, 50, 500) and whether they're Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, or both, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 tools and explain exactly how I'd set up the negative-keyword workflow.

Yes. If you mean managing negative keywords across multiple Google Ads accounts and using search-term data to systematically cut wasted spend, my top recommendation is Optmyzr.

Why I’d recommend Optmyzr

• Cross-account management: It can analyze search terms and keyword opportunities across a portfolio of accounts, rather than making you work account-by-account. www.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.com
• Negative Keyword Finder: It analyzes search-term data and identifies poorly performing/relevant terms that could be added as negatives. help.optmyzr.com
• Wasted-spend identification: It specifically surfaces pockets of wasted spend and lets you manage search terms/keywords at scale. www.optmyzr.com
• Automation: Its Rule Engine can automate recurring search-term/negative-keyword workflows, which is particularly useful if you're managing many accounts. www.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.com
• It supports both Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, which is useful if your accounts span both platforms. www.optmyzr.com

One important distinction: Google's/Microsoft's native shared negative lists are generally within an account. Microsoft explicitly says its negative keyword lists can't be applied across all accounts/sub-accounts at once. www.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.comhelp.ads.microsoft.com That's where a portfolio-level tool becomes much more valuable.

My pick:
Optmyzr if you're an agency or managing multiple ad accounts and want cross-account intelligence + automation + wasted-spend reduction. If you're only managing 1–2 accounts, native Google Ads tools/scripts may be enough and cheaper.

If you tell me how many accounts you manage (e.g. 10, 50, 500) and whether they're Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, or both, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 tools and compare them on cross-account negative keyword syncing, automation, price, and safety/approval controls.

For multi-account paid-search management + visualization + custom KPI alerts, Optmyzr is a particularly strong fit based on its current feature set.

Why it maps closely to your requirements:

• Multi-account dashboard: Its All Accounts Dashboard consolidates Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Yahoo Japan accounts into one interface. help.optmyzr.com
• Custom KPIs: You can create calculated/custom metrics and use them in centralized dashboards. help.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Portfolio-level alerts: KPI alerts can operate across an entire multi-account portfolio, including thresholds, percentage changes, and negative trends. help.optmyzr.com
• Cross-account reporting: Its reporting system can combine multiple accounts and platforms, with reusable templates and scheduled delivery. www.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Alert delivery: Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. www.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Budget monitoring: It also supports portfolio-level pacing alerts and budget automation, which is useful if spend control is one of your KPIs. help.optmyzr.com

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One important distinction

If your primary need is BI-style visualization—for example, highly bespoke dashboards combining Google Ads with CRM, revenue, pipeline, or other first-party data—I'd also consider a Looker Studio + data warehouse/connector setup. If the priority is actually managing PPC accounts and having the monitoring/alerts built into the same platform, Optmyzr is much more purpose-built.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts, which ad platforms, and your 3–5 KPIs (e.g. ROAS, CPA, spend pacing, conversion rate), I can lay out the most appropriate architecture for your use case.

For a solo PPC specialist managing dozens of client accounts, I’d narrow it to Adalysis vs. Optmyzr, with a separate reporting tool only if you need polished client-facing dashboards.

My pick: Adalysis for the best cost/capability balance

adalysis.com is probably the sweet spot if your work is primarily Google Ads + Microsoft Ads.

Why:

• Unlimited Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts can be connected, including accounts across multiple MCCs. Adalysis
• You get a very broad PPC toolkit: audits, alerts, budget pacing, automated actions, bid management, search-term/n-gram analysis, Quality Score analysis, PMax tools, RSA analysis, campaign building, reporting, etc. Adalysis
• Pricing is based on total ad spend rather than number of accounts, which is attractive when you have dozens of relatively small clients.
• The same feature set is included across its plans rather than making you pay substantially more just to unlock basic functionality. Adalysis
• For a one-person operation, that makes the economics particularly compelling: adding client #31 doesn't automatically create another software charge.

When I'd choose Optmyzr instead

optmyzr.com is the stronger choice if you're doing serious automation and portfolio-level management.

Its current Premium offering supports unlimited accounts within fair-use limits and adds things like cross-account dashboards, portfolio-level analysis, advanced automation, budget optimization, Shopping/PMax management, and broader platform support including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and LinkedIn. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

The downside for a solo operator is complexity and potentially higher cost. Optmyzr's pricing is tied to monthly ad spend, and its Premium tier is where a lot of the really valuable multi-account functionality lives. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

So I'd characterize them as:

Don't use a PPC optimizer as your reporting system

If by "multi-account management" you mainly mean keeping track of 30–50 clients and sending them beautiful reports, I'd actually use a different tool.

agencyanalytics.com currently has a Core model at $20/client/month when billed annually, with unlimited reports, dashboards, users and data sources. It includes white-labeling, automated reporting, alerts, forecasting and 85+ integrations. AgencyAnalytics

At 30 clients that's roughly $600/month, so I'd only add it if the client-reporting side justifies it. For a PPC specialist, I'd rather put the money into the optimization platform and use Looker Studio/Google Sheets for simpler reporting.

What I'd do in your position

If most clients are Google Ads:
Adalysis + Looker Studio is my value pick.

If you're managing sophisticated Google/Microsoft accounts and want substantial automation:
Optmyzr + Looker Studio.

If clients also have Meta, LinkedIn, Amazon, etc. and you want everything under one roof:
Optmyzr becomes considerably more attractive because it supports those platforms and offers portfolio-level functionality. Optmyzr Help Center

If reporting is eating most of your time:
Add AgencyAnalytics rather than buying an even more expensive PPC-management suite.

One important wrinkle: the amount of client ad spend matters more than the number of clients for both Adalysis and Optmyzr. A solo specialist with 40 clients spending $5k each has a very different software-cost equation from one with 15 clients spending $100k each.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage, total monthly ad spend, and whether they're mostly Google/Microsoft/Meta, I can calculate the likely monthly cost of Adalysis vs. Optmyzr vs. a cheaper stack and give you a clear winner.

For a solo PPC specialist managing dozens of client accounts, I’d put Optmyzr at the top for overall cost/capability balance—especially if you manage Google Ads plus Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, or LinkedIn.

My shortlist

1. optmyzr.com — best overall

This is probably what I'd choose if PPC is your business and you want one system to run dozens of clients.

The big advantage is breadth: optimization, audits, budget management, automation/rules, reporting, portfolio dashboards, and cross-account analysis. Premium supports unlimited accounts subject to fair-use limits, and portfolio-level dashboards let you group clients/accounts for management. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

It also supports Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo Japan, Meta and LinkedIn Ads on Premium. Optmyzr Help Center

Why it fits a solo operator: you can automate the repetitive 80%—budget pacing, alerts, search-term analysis, optimizations, reporting—while spending your time on strategy and client communication.

The downside is pricing: it's based on monthly ad spend, not simply the number of clients. Essentials supports up to 25 accounts; Premium supports unlimited accounts, but higher spend increases the subscription cost. Optmyzr Help Center

2. adalysis.com — best value if you're mostly Google/Microsoft

I'd seriously consider this if your clients are predominantly Google Ads + Microsoft Ads.

Adalysis is particularly strong at:

• Automated audits
• Alerts and monitoring
• Budget tracking/projections
• Rule-based automation
• Search-term and n-gram analysis
• Quality Score analysis
• Ad testing
• Reporting
• Campaign building

And importantly for your situation, all plans allow unlimited Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts and unlimited users. Adalysis

That's an unusually attractive model for someone with 30–50 relatively small clients because you aren't paying a separate fee for every client account.

I'd pick Adalysis over Optmyzr if your primary workflow is Google/Microsoft and you care more about monitoring, audits, testing and automation than having the broadest cross-channel toolkit.

3. opteo.com — best if keeping the bill low is priority #1

Opteo is worth considering when most of your work is Google Ads and you don't need a giant agency-management platform.

It's less of an all-encompassing PPC operating system than Optmyzr, but that can actually be an advantage for a solo consultant: less complexity and a lower software bill.

What I'd actually do

For a solo PPC specialist with, say, 20–50 clients, I'd rank them:

Optmyzr > Adalysis > Opteo > Adzooma > Marin

But there's an important caveat: your aggregate monthly client ad spend matters more than the number of clients.

For example:

• 30 clients × $1,000/mo each = $30K total spend: Adalysis becomes very compelling.
• 30 clients × $5,000/mo = $150K: Optmyzr becomes much more compelling because its automation and portfolio management can save substantial labor.
• 50+ clients with very small budgets: I'd favor a tool with unlimited accounts and minimal per-account economics, and keep your reporting stack separate if necessary.
• Multiple ad platforms per client: Optmyzr pulls further ahead.

My practical recommendation

If I were starting a solo PPC consultancy today, I'd trial Optmyzr and Adalysis side-by-side.

Use a representative batch of 10–15 real client accounts and measure:

1. How much time you save per account/month
2. How good the automated recommendations actually are
3. How easy it is to catch problems across all clients
4. How quickly you can produce client reports
5. Total software cost ÷ number of hours saved

That last metric is the one I'd optimize for. A $300/month tool that saves you 20 hours is vastly cheaper than a $100/month tool that saves you 2 hours.

One especially relevant consideration: Optmyzr introduced add-on accounts in 2026, costing $129/month each on Premium ($90.20/month equivalent when billed annually), while Enterprise includes them at no additional cost. Optmyzr Help Center So if you need separate client/team workspaces, factor that into the calculation rather than looking only at the headline subscription price.

Bottom line: Optmyzr is my best overall pick; Adalysis is probably the best pure value for a solo Google/Microsoft PPC specialist managing lots of small-to-mid-sized accounts.

If you mean one workspace for multiple client/accounts, covering both Search and Shopping, I’d put Optmyzr at the top of the shortlist.

My ranking

1. Optmyzr — best overall for PPC teams/agencies

• Unified multi-account dashboard across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, plus Amazon/Meta.
• Handles both Search and Shopping workflows.
• Strong bulk optimization, rules/automation, budget management, audits, and reporting.
• Its Portfolio Dashboards let you group accounts and manage them as a single entity. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Particularly compelling if your team wants hands-on control rather than just reporting.
• Google Ads Manager Account (MCC) — best if you're Google-only

• Native, free, and excellent for managing many Google accounts from one dashboard.
• You can compare accounts, make campaign changes, run consolidated reports, and manage alerts. Google Google Help
• Google Ads Editor adds powerful bulk editing across multiple accounts. Google
• The drawback: it doesn't give you the same cross-platform layer as Optmyzr.
• Skai — best for large enterprise/retail-media operations

• More oriented toward enterprise portfolio management and broader commerce media.
• Particularly interesting if Shopping extends beyond Google into Amazon, Walmart, Target, Instacart, etc. Optmyzr itself notes Skai's strength in retail-media breadth. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

What I'd choose

If your setup is something like 20+ Google Ads accounts with Search + Shopping campaigns, and you want your team to be able to jump between accounts, monitor performance, make bulk changes, automate rules, and report across clients, Optmyzr is probably the best fit.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage, whether you also run Microsoft Ads, and whether Shopping is mostly Standard Shopping/PMax, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 platforms I'd actually demo, including the tradeoffs and approximate pricing.

If you’re managing both Search and Shopping across multiple accounts, I’d put Optmyzr at the top of the list.

Why Optmyzr is a strong fit

• Unified multi-account view: Its All Accounts Dashboard lets you monitor Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Amazon, Meta, LinkedIn, etc. from one interface, with portfolio-level rollups for groups of accounts. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Search + Shopping in the same ecosystem: You get hands-on Search optimization/automation alongside a dedicated Shopping Dashboard for Google and Microsoft Shopping/PMax retail campaigns. help.optmyzr.com
• Actual campaign management, not just reporting: You can modify budgets, bids, keywords, search terms, ads, campaign settings, and other elements directly from the platform. help.optmyzr.com
• Especially good for agencies: Portfolios let you aggregate accounts by client, brand, region, or business unit, making it much easier to spot performance and budget issues across accounts. help.optmyzr.comhelp.optmyzr.com
• Shopping/feed workflows: Its Shopping tools can sync campaign structures with merchant-feed changes and surface products that should be added or removed. help.optmyzr.com

How I'd compare the main options

Skai is the other one I'd seriously evaluate if you're enterprise-scale. It has a unified interface for keyword and Shopping campaigns and goes much further into omnichannel/retail-media management. skai.io

My pick: If your core requirement is “give my team one screen to manage many Search + Shopping accounts efficiently”, Optmyzr is probably the sweet spot. If you’re managing a very large enterprise media program spanning search + retail media + social, Skai becomes more compelling.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts you manage (e.g. 10, 50, 200+) and whether they're mostly Google or Google + Microsoft, I can narrow it down and compare Optmyzr vs Skai vs Marin/SA360 specifically for your workflow.

If you mean paid search (Google Ads/Microsoft Ads) campaign building, I’d look at platforms that do both keyword expansion and automatic ad-group/campaign structuring rather than just keyword research.

Here are the strongest options:

My recommendation by use case

• You are launching campaigns from scratch:

→ Semply or Geperion. They are closest to “give it a site/product and build the structure.” Semplici Geperion

• You manage many client accounts:

→ Optmyzr or Adalysis. They are designed around scale and bulk PPC operations. Adalysis

• You already have campaigns and want continuous expansion:

→ Adnine or Keywordme. Adnine Keywordme

If your priority is specifically “discover thousands of new keywords → cluster them into tightly themed campaigns/ad groups → export into Google Ads Editor”, I’d shortlist Geperion, Adalysis, and Semply. Geperion Adalysis Semplici

A couple of details would change the recommendation:

• Are you building Google Search campaigns, SEO topic clusters, or both?
• Roughly how many keywords/accounts are you managing (hundreds vs. tens of thousands)?

If you’re managing multiple ecommerce stores and want automated bid/budget management across both Google Ads and Meta, my shortlist would be:

🥇 My pick: AdScale

For your particular use case, I'd start with adscale.com.

The reason is that you don't just need a "bid optimizer." With multiple stores, the important part is being able to automate:

• Google + Meta campaign management
• Budget allocation
• ROAS/CPA-based optimization
• Product/catalog campaigns
• Campaign creation and scaling
• Multiple stores/ad accounts
• Ecommerce-specific data rather than optimizing purely toward platform metrics

A 2026 comparison specifically positions AdScale as the strongest all-around Google + Meta option for ecommerce, with both platforms supported and high automation. Adscale

🥈 Smartly — if you're operating at agency scale

smartly.io is probably the more powerful choice if you're managing a large portfolio of stores/ad accounts and have a meaningful paid-media operation around them.

Smartly supports Google Ads and Meta, lets you manage multiple ad accounts, automate campaign workflows, and use predictive algorithms for bid/budget optimization. Smartly Smartly Smartly

Its big advantage is that it goes beyond bidding into creative + media + data automation. For example, its Meta tooling can automate feed-based campaign creation and optimization across multiple accounts. Smartly

I'd lean Smartly if you're managing 10+ brands/stores or have a team of media buyers.

🥉 Marpipe — very interesting if SKU count is huge

marpipe.com is different. I'd consider it alongside your bid-management system rather than necessarily replacing it.

It's particularly good when your stores have hundreds/thousands of SKUs. It can identify poor-performing products and remove them from catalog campaigns, while managing product feeds across Meta, Google, TikTok, Pinterest, etc. Marpipe Marpipe

That's potentially a huge win if you're running lots of Shopping/PMax + catalog/DPA campaigns.

What I'd actually build

If you manage, say, 5–30 Shopify stores, I'd probably structure it:

AdScale → automated campaign/budget management
+ Triple Whale → profitability/attribution layer
+ Marpipe → catalog/SKU optimization where needed

The important distinction is that ROAS isn't necessarily the right optimization target across multiple stores. If Store A has 70% gross margin and Store B has 25%, you don't want the automation treating a 4x ROAS from each store as equally valuable.

Ideally your rules are based on something closer to:

Contribution margin → CAC → MER → LTV/payback

rather than simply "maximize ROAS."

If you tell me roughly how many stores you manage, monthly ad spend per store, Shopify/WooCommerce, and whether you want fully autonomous bidding or just automated rules, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and what I'd choose for your setup.

Yes. For a growing PPC team, Optmyzr is one of the stronger fits if you specifically want automated control over time-of-day + device bid adjustments across multiple accounts.

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Why it fits

• Time/dayparting: Its Hour of Week tool analyzes performance by hour and day of week and recommends bid increases/decreases. It can apply those changes in bulk rather than having the team manually edit campaigns. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Device: Its Rule Engine can automatically apply campaign- or ad-group-level device bid adjustments based on conditions you define. Optmyzr Help Center
• Automation: Rules can run on a schedule, which is useful when you're managing enough campaigns that manual optimization becomes a bottleneck. Optmyzr Help Center
• Google + Microsoft: It supports both Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, which is particularly useful if your team manages both. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Help Center

One important caveat

If you're using Google's Smart Bidding (Target CPA, Target ROAS, Maximize Conversions, etc.), you generally can't simply layer traditional time-of-day bid modifiers on top and expect Google to use them. Optmyzr instead has mechanisms for optimizing things like the tCPA/tROAS targets themselves. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

So I'd think about it this way:

For a growing PPC team, I'd shortlist Optmyzr, Skai, and Marin and compare them based on account count, monthly spend, Google/Microsoft mix, and how much autonomy you want the platform to have.

If you tell me roughly how many accounts/campaigns you manage and your monthly ad spend, I can narrow that down to the 2–3 platforms I'd actually evaluate.

Yes. For a growing PPC team, there are a few platforms that can automate this, but the right choice depends on whether you're using manual bidding or Google/Microsoft Smart Bidding.

My top pick: Optmyzr

Optmyzr is particularly well suited to a team environment. Its automation can analyze performance by hour/day of week and recommend/apply bid adjustments, while its Rule Engine can automate device bid adjustments on a schedule. help.optmyzr.com

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The important caveat: those explicit bid modifiers are primarily useful with manual bidding. If you're using Google Smart Bidding, Google already incorporates time of day, device, location, query, browser, etc. at auction time rather than simply applying a +20% mobile modifier. support.google.com

Other option: Marin

Marin Software has automated dayparting recommendations and can manage scheduling across Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. support.marinsoftware.com

Marin Software

Enterprise option: Skai

Skai has AI-driven dayparting with hourly insights and bid recommendations. It's more of an enterprise marketing platform than a lightweight PPC optimization tool. skai.io

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One important distinction

If your goal is:

"Automatically bid differently at 9am vs. 2pm and differently on mobile vs. desktop."

I'd not automatically buy a third-party bid-management platform. Google's Smart Bidding already does this at the individual-auction level, including interactions between time and device. support.google.comsupport.marinsoftware.comskai.iobusiness.google.com

If instead your goal is:

"Give our PPC team centralized rules, controls, reporting, alerts, and automated optimization across dozens/hundreds of campaigns and accounts."

then Optmyzr is probably the first platform I'd evaluate.

If you tell me roughly how many Google Ads accounts/campaigns your team manages and whether you're primarily on tCPA/tROAS or manual CPC, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms for your setup.

For a 10-person performance marketing team managing hundreds of campaigns, I’d shortlist Skai first.

My recommendation: Skai

Skai is particularly well suited if what you mean by “portfolio bidding” is one optimization layer that can redistribute bids/budget across large campaign portfolios based on a shared business goal, rather than simply applying Google/Microsoft Smart Bidding campaign by campaign.

Skai’s Portfolio Optimization uses ML to optimize bids toward an overall portfolio goal, and its platform can group campaigns, assign common ROAS/budget objectives, and automatically adjust bids and budgets. Skai Skai

It also supports optimization across publishers, rather than forcing your team to operate entirely inside individual ad-platform interfaces. Skai

Why I’d pick it for your team:

• Hundreds/thousands of campaigns: built for very large portfolios and millions of keywords. Skai
• Portfolio-level optimization: optimize toward a shared ROAS, CPA, profit, or other business objective.
• Budget + bid optimization: not just bids; Skai can shift budget toward campaigns with better marginal opportunity. Skai
• Cross-channel: useful if your hundreds of campaigns span Google, Microsoft, paid social, retail media, etc. Skai
• Team leverage: a 10-person team can manage substantially more campaigns without every marketer manually adjusting bids.

Two alternatives worth evaluating

Optmyzr is my second choice if your operation is heavily Google/Microsoft PPC and you want a more marketer-friendly automation/optimization toolkit. Its 2026 portfolio functionality supports grouping accounts across Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, Meta and LinkedIn, with portfolio-level analysis and optimization. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

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MarinOne is worth a serious look if you're managing campaigns across multiple publishers and clients. Its “Strategies” can span any number of campaigns and multiple ad platforms, with dynamic spend allocation and automated pacing. Marin Support

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How I'd choose

One important distinction: Google's native portfolio bidding is already quite capable, but it primarily groups campaigns under a common bid strategy. Google Help A third-party platform becomes more compelling when you need cross-account/cross-channel optimization, budget allocation, custom business metrics, centralized controls, and operational automation.

For a 10-person team + hundreds of campaigns, I'd probably run a Skai vs. Optmyzr proof-of-concept rather than buy either based on a demo. Give both the same 50–100 campaigns, historical conversion/revenue data, constraints, and target KPI, then measure incremental ROAS/CPA, budget utilization, volatility, and hours of human intervention over 6–8 weeks.

If your goal is “run bidding experiments automatically, measure the business outcome, and promote winners without logging into Google/Meta constantly,” I’d look at Optmyzr first.

Best fit: Optmyzr

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It has a particularly good fit for this workflow:

• Create bidding experiments for Maximize Conversions, Target CPA, and Target ROAS. Optmyzr Help Center
• Compare experiment vs. control and evaluate statistical confidence rather than just looking at raw ROAS. Optmyzr Help Center
• Automatically adjust Target CPA/ROAS through its Rule Engine rather than manually changing campaigns. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Supports Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta Ads, Amazon Ads, and LinkedIn for various automation/reporting workflows. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• You can put guardrails around automated changes so an experiment can't run away with the budget. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

One important distinction: ROAS isn't necessarily the same thing as ROI. If you care about actual profit, I'd feed the system conversion values that reflect margin/LTV rather than simply revenue.

How I'd structure the setup

For example, suppose you're currently running Target ROAS at 400%.

You could automate:

1. Control: 400% tROAS
2. Experiment A: 350%
3. Experiment B: 450%
4. Give each a predetermined traffic/budget allocation.
5. Measure profit per dollar spent, not just conversion volume.
6. Require a minimum spend/conversion threshold before declaring a winner.
7. Automatically promote the winner or terminate the loser.
8. Keep a holdout/control so you're measuring incremental improvement, rather than rewarding a strategy simply because the whole account improved.

That last point is important. If you're serious about experimentation, I'd build the decision metric around something like:

incremental profit = incremental conversion value − incremental ad spend

and ideally incorporate gross margin, refunds, lead quality, or LTV where applicable.

If you're mostly on Google Ads

I'd start with Optmyzr + Google Ads experiments, rather than trying to replace Google's bidding algorithms. Optmyzr essentially acts as an automation/experimentation layer on top of Smart Bidding. Its current tooling specifically supports analyzing experiments and taking action on the winning/losing experiment. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

If you tell me Google, Meta, or both + your approximate monthly ad spend + whether you're optimizing ecommerce revenue, leads, or profit, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms and the experiment architecture I'd use.

If your goal is “test bidding strategies automatically, measure incremental ROI/ROAS, and avoid living in Ads Manager”, I’d look at three levels:

1. Best turnkey option: Optmyzr

Optmyzr is probably the closest fit if you want a no/low-code automation layer.

It can:

• Create/analyze Google Ads campaign experiments.
• Compare control vs. treatment and surface statistically significant results.
• Automate bidding/target-ROAS/target-CPA changes with scheduled rules.
• Apply or terminate experiments without manually working through Google Ads. help.optmyzr.com
• Work across Google, Microsoft, Meta, and other ad accounts for its automation/reporting workflows. help.optmyzr.com

I'd pick this if you're an agency or growth team managing multiple accounts.

2. Best if you want maximum control: build on the Google Ads API

If you're comfortable with engineering, you don't actually need a third-party bidding platform.

Google's current Ads API supports system-managed and intra-campaign experiments, including experiments specifically designed to test bidding changes. You can programmatically create the experiment, split traffic, collect metrics, and then promote or end the winning treatment. developers.google.com

You can also retrieve bid simulations, which estimate how alternative bids could have affected cost, clicks, impressions, and conversions based on historical data. developers.google.com

A good architecture would be:

Ad platforms → API → experiment orchestrator → warehouse → ROI evaluator → automated promote/rollback

That gives you a system where you could say:

“Test tROAS 300%, 400%, and 500% against the current strategy. Allocate 50/50 where possible. Run until we have enough data. Promote the winner if incremental profit exceeds 10% with 95% confidence.”

The important distinction is incremental profit/ROI, rather than simply picking whichever arm has the highest reported ROAS.

3. If experimentation itself is the priority

I'd consider an experimentation platform such as Marpipe, particularly if you're testing creative/audience/media combinations, rather than just bidding algorithms.

What I'd use

One caveat: don't evaluate bidding strategies solely on platform-reported ROAS. For a real experiment, keep the control/treatment split clean, account for conversion lag and Smart Bidding learning, and measure incremental contribution/profit where possible. Google's current guidance recommends running experiments for at least four weeks and allowing the first 1–2 weeks for automated-bidding recalibration. developers.google.com

If you tell me which platforms you're running (Google, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, etc.) and whether you have a data warehouse, I can suggest a concrete automated stack and experiment design.

If you mean paid-search/PPC agencies, my top pick is Optmyzr, particularly its Enterprise tier.

Why it fits your requirements:

• Granular bid control: Optmyzr gives you manual bid management plus customizable rules/automation, including CPA/ROAS-oriented optimization and bid/budget safeguards. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Client/account permissions: Enterprise adds access levels so you can control which accounts individual team members can access, designed to mirror permissions in Google Ads and other ad platforms. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Agency scale: You can organize accounts into portfolios and manage multiple clients from a unified interface, with cross-account optimization and reporting. Optmyzr Help Center
• Client-facing controls: Enterprise supports white-labeled report domains, which is useful if clients need visibility without getting unrestricted access to your operational environment. Optmyzr Help Center

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Strong alternative: Marin

Marin Software is worth considering if you need particularly sophisticated cross-channel bid/budget automation. It supports flexible rules, automated spend allocation, and client-specific configurations, while its permission model can give users No Access, Read Only, or Write access to individual client accounts. Marin Support Marin Software

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Bottom line: For an agency where the key combination is “I want very precise control over bidding, but clients/team members must only see or change what they're authorized to,” I'd choose Optmyzr Enterprise. Marin is the better contender if cross-publisher budget allocation and highly customized enterprise workflows are the bigger priority.

If by “predicted conversion probability at the keyword level” you mean software that models how likely a click/search is to convert and uses that prediction to determine bids, there are a few different categories.

Best options for a PPC freelancer

• Google Ads Smart Bidding — best overall. Google’s own system predicts conversion probability for each auction using contextual and query-level signals, then sets an auction-time bid. Importantly, it isn't really limited to the keyword level; Google says it learns at the search-query level and combines signals such as device, location, time, browser, OS, and more. Google Help Google Help

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• Optmyzr — best if you want freelancer-friendly control across multiple client accounts. It can automate manual keyword bidding and has strategies such as Bid to Target CPA (Keywords), which uses historical conversion data and progressively expands the lookback period when conversion volume is insufficient. It also has Conversion Grabber, which identifies converting keywords that are losing impression share and recommends bid increases. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

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• Optmyzr + Google Smart Bidding — probably the strongest practical setup for an independent PPC consultant. You can let Google's ML handle auction-level conversion prediction while using Optmyzr for account-level automation, rules, audits, budget management, and adjustments to CPA/ROAS targets. Optmyzr explicitly supports layering its automation on top of Google Smart Bidding. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

One important distinction

If you're specifically looking for a tool that does:

keyword → predicted conversion probability → calculate optimal CPC bid → push bid to Google Ads

rather than Google's:

search query + user/context signals → predicted conversion probability → auction-time bid

then Optmyzr's keyword-level strategies are closer to what you're describing, although its published documentation describes them primarily as historical-performance/target-CPA optimization rather than exposing a standalone machine-learning conversion-probability score. Optmyzr Help Center

For most freelancers, I'd choose Google Smart Bidding for the actual bid prediction + Optmyzr for managing and automating multiple client accounts.

If you tell me whether you mean Google Ads Search, Microsoft Ads, or both, I can also give you the 3–5 tools that most closely match a “predicted CVR × keyword CPC” bidding model, including newer AI/PPC platforms.

If you mean software that estimates the likelihood of a conversion and uses that signal to influence bids at the keyword/search-term level, there are a few categories—but Optmyzr is probably the closest fit for a PPC freelancer.

Best fits

Optmyzr is especially interesting for freelancers because it explicitly markets itself toward one-person PPC consultancies and supports multi-account management, automation, keyword optimization, and bid management. www.optmyzr.com

One important distinction, though: I wouldn't describe Optmyzr as simply "predict conversion probability per keyword and bid directly from that probability." Its current tooling includes things like Conversion Grabber, which identifies converting keywords that are losing impression share and recommends selective bid increases, plus First Page Bridger and custom Rule Engine strategies. help.optmyzr.com

If what you're specifically looking for is:

Keyword → predicted P(conversion) → expected conversion value → optimal CPC bid

that's a narrower requirement. Google Smart Bidding actually gets closer to the ML concept, because Google's auction-time system predicts conversion likelihood using many contextual signals—but you don't get a simple exposed "keyword conversion probability" that you can directly manipulate.

If you're a freelancer, I'd choose:

1. Google Smart Bidding + Optmyzr — probably the strongest practical combination.
Google handles auction-time prediction/bidding; Optmyzr gives you the human-controlled optimization layer for keywords, budgets, targets, rules, and diagnostics.

2. Optmyzr alone — if you want one platform for managing several clients and automating repetitive optimization. Its freelancer offering is specifically designed around this use case. www.optmyzr.com

3. A custom ML bidding system — if by "predicted conversion probability at keyword level" you literally mean you want to build/use your own probability model and determine bids from it. That's more flexible than the SaaS tools, but considerably more work.

If you tell me whether you're managing Google Ads Search, Microsoft Ads, or both, and roughly how many client accounts/month, I can narrow this down to the 3–5 tools that actually fit a freelancer's workflow and budget.

For an agency with limited resources, I’d pick optmyzr.com—especially if you’re managing Google Ads and Microsoft Ads across multiple clients.

Why Optmyzr is the best fit

• Built for multi-client management: You can connect and manage multiple client accounts from one dashboard, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and LinkedIn. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Strong automation: Its Rule Engine can automate recurring optimization tasks, while automated reports, alerts, audits, and budget monitoring reduce the amount of manual account checking. Optmyzr Help Center
• Good agency workflow: Account Blueprints let you standardize optimization processes across multiple Google and Microsoft accounts, which is particularly valuable when you have a small team. Optmyzr Help Center
• Bid + budget management: You can manage bidding strategies and budgets directly rather than using it solely as a reporting layer. Optmyzr Help Center
• Reasonable scaling model: Its Essentials plan supports up to 25 ad accounts, while Premium supports unlimited accounts within fair-use limits and adds multi-account budget/reporting and advanced automation. Optmyzr Help Center

The catch

If by "bid management" you mean fully autonomous, algorithmic bidding comparable to Google's own Smart Bidding, I'd be more cautious. Optmyzr's strength is giving an agency automation + rules + oversight, rather than simply handing every bid decision to a black-box algorithm.

For a small agency, that's actually a feature: you can create standardized rules such as:

If CPA is 20% below target → increase bids/budget
If CPA is 30% above target → decrease bids
If spend is pacing ahead of monthly budget → reduce bids
If conversion volume drops → alert account manager

…and apply those workflows across clients.

What I'd choose by agency size

One particularly useful point for a resource-constrained agency: Optmyzr currently offers unlimited automation on its plans, so the bottleneck doesn't have to become "we need another person to monitor all these accounts." Optmyzr Help Center

Bottom line: I'd start with Optmyzr, rather than paying for an enterprise platform like Skai. It has the right combination of multi-account management, bid/budget automation, reporting, and standardized workflows without requiring a large PPC operations team.

If you tell me roughly how many client accounts you manage, monthly ad spend, and whether it's mostly Google, Microsoft, Meta, or a mix, I can narrow it down to the most cost-effective platform and plan.

For a resource-constrained agency managing multiple client ad accounts, the best fit is usually Optmyzr — especially if your work is mostly Google Ads / Microsoft Ads with some Meta, LinkedIn, or Amazon. It tends to hit the best balance between automation depth, agency workflows, and cost compared with enterprise platforms. www.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.com

A practical ranking:

My recommendation by agency size:

• 1–10 client accounts: Start with native platform automation (Google Ads Smart Bidding + scripts/rules) and add a lightweight tool only when repetitive work becomes painful.
• 10–50 client accounts: Optmyzr is probably the sweet spot. Use it for:
  • automated bid rules
  • budget pacing alerts
  • search term mining
  • account audits
  • standardized client workflows
  • cross-account reporting www.optmyzr.comwww.optmyzr.com
• 50+ accounts or $500k+/month spend: Evaluate Marin, Skai, or similar enterprise tools. paceads.com

A lean agency should avoid choosing based only on “AI bidding.” Google and Microsoft already automate much of the auction process. The bigger productivity gains usually come from:

1. catching account issues automatically,
2. applying consistent optimization rules,
3. reducing manual reporting,
4. standardizing how every client is managed.

If you tell me your approximate number of clients, monthly ad spend under management, and channels (Google only vs Google + Meta + Amazon, etc.), I can narrow this to a specific recommendation.

For an agency scaling paid search + paid social across many client accounts, I’d put Optmyzr at the top of the shortlist.

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Why Optmyzr stands out

• True multi-client monitoring: Its All Accounts Dashboard consolidates Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn and other ad accounts, so your team can monitor clients without jumping between platforms. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Built-in anomaly detection: Automatic anomaly alerts are generated for connected Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Meta accounts, with cost, clicks and impressions monitored out of the box. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Portfolio/client structure: You can group accounts by client, region, or objective and apply monitoring at the portfolio level—particularly useful as an agency grows from dozens to hundreds of accounts. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Useful alert routing: Alerts can go to email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, and multiple team members can own an alert. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Beyond simple threshold alerts: Its anomaly detection looks at historical performance rather than merely saying "CPA > $X," which should reduce some of the alert noise you get with basic rules. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Paid social is increasingly native: Meta and LinkedIn are now incorporated into the same monitoring/portfolio workflow rather than being an afterthought to its PPC tooling. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

My agency-oriented ranking

The key distinction: if your primary requirement is "tell the right account manager when something abnormal happens across 100+ client accounts" rather than simply "give me a dashboard," Optmyzr is unusually well suited.

One caveat: its automatic anomaly alerts aren't equally broad across every platform/metric—the default anomaly system currently focuses on cost, clicks and impressions, while more granular KPI alerts can be configured separately. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

If you're choosing between Optmyzr vs. Skai vs. MarinOne specifically for an agency, I can give you a more detailed comparison of alert quality, false-positive rate, Slack/Teams workflows, client isolation, pricing, and scalability.

If you mean running paid search + paid social campaigns for dozens of client accounts from one agency interface, you’ll usually want a multi-client ad management platform, not just a social scheduler. The best choice depends on whether you prioritize campaign execution, automation, reporting, or client collaboration.

Strong options for an agency managing dozens of clients

If you also need organic social management

For scheduling posts, approvals, calendars, and social reporting, pair your ad platform with a social management tool:

• Hootsuite — mature enterprise social management, publishing, and analytics. TechRadar
• Sprout Social — strong for client reporting, approvals, and social listening.
• Agorapulse — popular with agencies needing client workflows and inbox management.

My shortlist by agency type

• 10–50 SMB clients (Google + Meta): Optmyzr + a reporting layer like AgencyAnalytics is a common stack. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• 50+ clients, performance marketing agency: Synter, AdManage.ai, or similar multi-account operations platforms. Synter AdManage
• Enterprise clients with big budgets: Skai or similar enterprise suites. Keywordme
• Mostly content/social campaigns: Hootsuite, Sprout Social, or Agorapulse.

Before choosing, check these five things:

1. Can it connect unlimited client ad accounts without constant switching?
2. Does it support Google Ads + Meta Ads at minimum?
3. Does it have role permissions (buyer, strategist, client)?
4. Can it create automated client reports?
5. Can you bulk edit/launch campaigns across accounts?

If you tell me roughly how many clients (10, 50, 100+), platforms (Google/Meta/TikTok/LinkedIn), and whether you need client reporting, I can narrow it to a few best fits.

If you're referring to a platform specifically designed for agencies managing multiple advertising accounts, one of the best-known tools is Optmyzr.

Optmyzr helps agencies automate routine optimization tasks across multiple client accounts by providing:

• Rule-based automations (e.g., pause low-performing keywords, adjust bids, manage budgets)
• Scheduled workflows and one-click optimizations
• Cross-account management from a single dashboard
• Custom optimization rules and scripts without requiring coding
• Performance monitoring and alerts

Other tools with similar capabilities include:

• Skai – Enterprise-grade automation for paid media across search, social, and retail media.
• Adalysis – Focuses on Google Ads and Microsoft Ads optimization with automated checks and recommendations.
• Shape – Workflow automation for agencies managing paid media at scale.

If this is from a certification or multiple-choice question (such as Google Skillshop), the expected answer is most likely Optmyzr. If you can share the exact question or answer choices, I can identify the intended answer.

If your main goal is “scan the account and show me where money is leaking”, I’d shortlist these:

1. optmyzr.com — best overall

This would be my first choice for a serious Google Ads account.

It specifically has tools for:

• Finding high-spend, non-converting keywords
• Finding wasted spend in search terms
• Identifying irrelevant queries and generating negative-keyword opportunities
• Auditing account structure and settings
• Monitoring budget pacing and overspend
• Analyzing performance by keyword, device, location, time, etc. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

Its audit system can also be scheduled, so you're not just doing a one-time cleanup. Optmyzr Help Center

Best for: agencies, larger accounts, or anyone who wants both auditing and ongoing optimization.

2. adalysis.com — best specifically for finding waste

If your question is literally “Where is my Google Ads budget being wasted?”, I'd seriously consider Adalysis.

It has 100+ automated audit checks and explicitly flags:

• Underperforming keywords
• Poor search terms
• Wasteful locations
• Wasteful placements
• Sudden increases in spend
• Drops in conversions/revenue
• Budget/performance problems Adalysis Adalysis

Its n-gram analysis is particularly useful: it aggregates recurring words/phrases across search queries and identifies patterns with lots of clicks/spend but poor conversion performance. That's a very effective way to uncover systematic keyword waste that isn't obvious one keyword at a time. Adalysis Docs

There's also a free Google Ads audit you can run before committing. Adalysis

Best for: quickly diagnosing an existing account and finding obvious waste.

3. Google Ads itself — best free option

Don't overlook the native data. With a reasonably configured account, you can find most budget drains by analyzing:

Search terms → Cost → Conversions → CPA/ROAS

The biggest traps are usually:

• Search terms spending without converting
• Keywords with significant spend and zero/poor conversions
• Broad-match terms pulling irrelevant intent
• Geographic areas with poor conversion rates
• Campaigns consuming disproportionate budget at poor CPA
• Search terms that should become negative keywords

The paid tools are mainly valuable because they automate the detection, prioritization, alerting, and cross-account analysis.

My recommendation

If I had to pick one: Optmyzr for an ongoing PPC management system; Adalysis if your immediate objective is simply to connect the account and get a prioritized list of things bleeding money.

One important distinction: don't judge keywords solely on “no conversions.” A keyword with $500 spend and zero conversions may be terrible—or it may have only generated 20 clicks. The better audit looks at spend relative to your target CPA/ROAS, conversion volume, conversion lag, and statistical confidence. Optmyzr and Adalysis both provide substantially more context than a simple “pause anything with zero conversions” rule. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

If you tell me monthly ad spend (e.g. $10k, $50k, $500k), Google Ads vs. Microsoft Ads, and whether you're lead gen or ecommerce, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options for your situation.

If your main goal is “scan the account, find where money is leaking, and tell me which keywords/search terms to cut,” I’d shortlist these:

My picks

1. optmyzr.com — best overall

• Probably the strongest fit for what you described.
• Finds high-spend/no-conversion search terms, non-converting keywords, expensive keywords, low-Quality-Score keywords, and negative-keyword opportunities. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Its Rule Engine lets you turn your own criteria into recurring scans/automations—for example, “flag search terms with >$X spend and zero conversions.” Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• It also has budget pacing/projection and budget reallocation tools, so it goes beyond keyword cleanup. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Best for: agencies, larger accounts, or anyone who wants both auditing and automated optimization.
• adalysis.com — best for finding search-term waste

• Particularly good if your biggest concern is “where exactly is my Google Ads money going?”
• Its keyword tools can flag underperforming search terms that are wasting budget without conversions and suggest negative keywords. Adalysis
• Strong n-gram analysis is useful for discovering patterns like “cheap,” “jobs,” “free,” etc. that repeatedly appear in expensive non-converting searches. Adalysis
• Also handles duplicate/cannibalizing search terms and budget optimization. Adalysis Adalysis
• Best for: PPC specialists who want a very focused optimization/auditing workflow.

What I'd choose

If you're managing one or a few serious Google Ads accounts: Adalysis.

If you're managing multiple accounts or want the software to continuously make/recommend optimizations: Optmyzr.

For your specific phrase—“scanning an ads account to identify budget drains and poor-performing keywords”—I'd give Optmyzr a slight edge, because its audit + negative keyword + non-converting keyword + custom Rule Engine combination is unusually comprehensive. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

One important distinction

Don't only look for “poor-performing keywords.” The bigger source of waste is often the search terms triggered by otherwise legitimate keywords. For example:

Keyword: roof repair
Search term: roof repair jobs near me

The keyword itself may look fine, while the triggered query is wasting money. Both Optmyzr and Adalysis are particularly useful because they analyze the search-term level, not just keyword-level CPA. Optmyzr Help Center Adalysis

If you tell me Google Ads vs. Microsoft Ads, monthly spend, and roughly how many campaigns, I can give you a more specific top 3 with pricing/value and which one I'd actually buy.

If your specific question is “Where is broad match + Smart Bidding wasting money, and which queries/themes are causing it?”, I’d shortlist these:

1. Optmyzr — best overall for this use case

This is probably my first choice. Its Search Term–Keyword Similarity analysis scores how closely a query matches the intended keyword meaning, while its negative-keyword and non-converting-query tools can identify spend that should be excluded. It also has Search Term N-Grams for finding recurring themes behind wasted spend. www.optmyzr.com

The useful part is that it goes beyond “keyword spent $X without conversions.” You can investigate what types of searches Smart Bidding is actually buying.

2. Adalysis — best pure auditing option

If you want an auditor rather than a broader PPC management platform, I'd look closely at Adalysis. It runs 100+ automated daily checks, including alerts for underperforming search terms, keywords, locations and placements, and lets you create custom thresholds. www.optmyzr.comadalysis.comadalysis.comsupport.google.com

Its free audit is also useful for getting a quick estimate of wasted spend before committing. adalysis.com

My pick

One important caveat: broad match + Smart Bidding isn't inherently a wasteful combination. Google explicitly recommends automated bidding with broad match because the larger query set gives Smart Bidding more data to optimize against. support.google.com The real audit question is whether the system is buying incremental conversions at an acceptable marginal CPA/ROAS, particularly through queries that look semantically relevant but have poor business intent.

If I were auditing an account, I'd specifically want a tool/report that decomposes broad-match + Smart Bidding spend into: query intent → conversion quality → CPA/ROAS → marginal spend → negative-keyword opportunity, rather than simply labeling non-converting keywords as “waste.”

If your goal is specifically to audit account-level settings for wasted spend, my top pick is optmyzr.com.

Why it fits your use case:

• Account-level audits: Its PPC Account Audit checks structural/configuration issues and lets you create custom audit criteria and schedule recurring audits. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Negative keywords: Negative Keyword Finder analyzes search-term data and identifies irrelevant/non-performing queries, including options to add negatives at the account level. Optmyzr Help Center
• Budget pacing: It has dedicated pacing, spend projection, and budget-management tools that flag accounts/campaigns trending over or under target. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• Cross-account visibility: Its All Accounts Dashboard can consolidate Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo Japan, Meta, and LinkedIn accounts, with budget pacing and optimization signals. Optmyzr Help Center
• Settings/configuration checks: For Google Ads, its audit library includes negative-keyword coverage/conflicts, budget-related impression-share loss, ad/campaign settings, targeting, match-type distributions, and more. Optmyzr Help Center

For your specific audit

I'd configure an Optmyzr audit around these four buckets:

1. Ad rotation / serving settings — flag campaigns using settings that don't match your testing strategy.
2. Negative keywords — missing negatives, conflicting negatives, and high-spend irrelevant search terms.
3. Budget pacing — overspending/underspending versus monthly target and campaigns hitting budget limits.
4. Waste signals — high spend with zero/low conversions, poor-quality traffic, and campaigns losing efficiency.

One caveat: Optmyzr is more of an optimization + auditing platform than a pure "settings compliance scanner." If you want a tool whose primary purpose is to crawl Google Ads and produce a configuration QA checklist before/after account changes, I'd compare it against a custom Google Ads Script or a specialized PPC audit platform.

If you tell me whether you're auditing Google Ads only or Google + Microsoft/Meta, I can give you a short 3-tool comparison specifically for finding wasted spend at the account/settings level.

If your goal is specifically to audit account-level waste—ad rotation/settings, negative-keyword gaps, budget pacing, and similar controls—my top pick is Optmyzr.

Why Optmyzr

• Account audits: configurable PPC audits score the account and flag structural/settings problems, including keyword/ad issues and conflicting keywords. help.optmyzr.com
• Negative keywords: its Negative Keyword Finder and Search Terms N-Grams identify irrelevant/non-converting queries that can be added as negatives. help.optmyzr.com
• Budget pacing: tracks actual vs. expected spend, projects end-of-period spend, and can alert or automate around over/under-pacing. help.optmyzr.com
• Cross-account: particularly strong if you're auditing multiple Google/Microsoft accounts rather than just one. Its dashboard consolidates account health, pacing, and optimization signals. help.optmyzr.com
• Automation: you can turn recurring audit findings into rules/alerts instead of treating the audit as a one-off exercise. help.optmyzr.com

The main alternative: Adalysis

If you're 100% Google Ads/Microsoft Ads and your priority is continuous auditing + ad testing + budget controls, I'd also evaluate Adalysis. Even Optmyzr's current comparison positions Adalysis as the more audit/ad-testing-focused choice, while Optmyzr is stronger for broader multi-platform management and automation. www.optmyzr.com

My pick by use case:

If you're auditing Google Ads specifically, I can also give you a 10–15 point waste-audit framework covering ad rotation, search partners, PMax, negatives, match types, budgets, bidding, locations, and conversion settings.

If your specific goal is “across all client ad accounts, tell me what fixes are costing us the most per week if we don't make them”, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Optmyzr

For an agency, Optmyzr is closest to what you're describing because it combines multi-account monitoring, anomaly detection, waste identification, and actual optimization workflows.

It can identify waste such as:

• Non-converting search queries
• Wasteful placements
• Expensive keywords
• Poor-performing campaigns
• Budget allocation problems
• Performance anomalies

Its PPC Investigator can drill down to the keyword, placement, device, campaign, etc. that caused a performance change. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

More importantly, it has portfolio-level monitoring and can alert across multiple client accounts, rather than requiring an account manager to manually inspect every account. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

But there's an important distinction

I don't think most existing tools give you exactly this UX:

Client A — Fix X — estimated waste: $1,240/week — confidence: 92%
Client B — Fix Y — estimated waste: $780/week — confidence: 84%
Client C — Fix Z — estimated waste: $430/week — confidence: 76%

That's a slightly different product category: an agency-wide “opportunity queue” ranked by financial impact.

If that's what you're trying to build/buy, I'd evaluate tools based on whether they can calculate:

Estimated weekly waste = current spend × estimated avoidable fraction

…and, ideally, distinguish avoidable waste from merely underperforming spend. That's the key difference between a generic PPC audit and a genuinely useful agency prioritization system.

Optmyzr gets closest among established platforms, particularly because its rule engine can automatically identify non-converting queries/placements and its portfolio tooling lets agencies manage many accounts. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

If you tell me whether you're primarily managing Google Ads, Meta, or both, I can give you a much tighter 5–7 tool comparison specifically for “rank every client fix by $/week wasted.”

If your specific goal is “show my agency which client accounts have the most estimated wasted ad spend per week, so the team works on the highest-dollar problems first,” I’d narrow the field considerably.

My ranking

1. optmyzr.com — best overall fit

• Built for agencies managing many client accounts.
• Its auditing/analysis identifies waste at the keyword, search-term, placement, device, etc. level, and its automation can actually act on problems. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Particularly strong if you want to turn “this account is wasting money” into a prioritized workflow and then automate the fix.
• It supports Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and LinkedIn, which is a major advantage if your clients aren't Google-only. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Caveat: I don't think its native UX is perfectly centered on the exact metric you're describing: estimated weekly wasted spend by client/account. You may need to construct that prioritization using its audits, rules, reporting and data.
• adalysis.com — best for Google/Microsoft audit depth

• Very good if your agency is primarily search.
• Runs automated audits and continuously surfaces issues, including wasted-spend opportunities, while also having strong ad-testing and budget controls. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• I'd choose it over Optmyzr if the core workflow is “audit every account and tell my PPC managers what is wrong.”
• I'd choose Optmyzr if the workflow is “prioritize + automate the remediation.”
• trueclicks.com — worth evaluating for agency-wide monitoring

• More interesting if you want account health/issue detection across a large client portfolio rather than a full optimization suite.
• The key question I'd ask them is whether their reporting can explicitly aggregate issues into a dollar-value estimate like “$4,820/week potential waste across these 17 accounts.”
• opteo.com — good guided recommendations, less compelling for this use case

• Stronger as a recommendation/optimization assistant than as an agency-wide “wasted dollars leaderboard.”
• I'd put it behind Optmyzr/Adalysis for a multi-client agency workflow. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

But there's an important distinction

If what you actually want is a dashboard like:

…then I don't think the mainstream PPC tools are quite as opinionated around this workflow as they could be.

The really valuable product would calculate something like:

Estimated weekly wasted spend = spend attributable to a condition that historically has little/no probability of producing the desired conversion

…and then roll that number up:

Agency → client → account → campaign → problem → recommended action

That lets an agency operate on dollars at risk, rather than a generic list of 37 optimization recommendations.

Optmyzr gets closest because it combines account-level analysis, automated rules, budget tools and agency workflows. Its current budget tooling also supports portfolio-level views and reallocations across accounts/platforms. Optmyzr Help Center

If you're evaluating this as a software product opportunity

I'd actually avoid building another generic “PPC optimization platform.” The sharper wedge is:

“A weekly wasted-spend queue for agencies.”

Connect all client ad accounts → calculate estimated waste → rank by $/week → explain why → assign to an account manager → track recovered spend.

That is a much more compelling agency workflow than “AI recommendations.”

If you tell me which ad platforms you need (Google only vs. Google + Meta + Microsoft, etc.) and roughly how many client accounts, I can give you a tighter shortlist and tell you whether I'd buy an existing product or build this internally.

If your goal is “audit search-term reports and surface negatives fast,” my top pick is optmyzr.com.

• Optmyzr — best fit: Its Negative Keyword Finder analyzes search-term reports, identifies words/queries that are underperforming, and lets you bulk-add negatives. It also has Non-Converting Queries automation for queries spending above your campaign’s typical CPA without converting. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center
• For more aggressive automation: Optmyzr's Rule Engine can score search-term relevance and automatically add low-relevance queries as negatives. Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization
• Google Ads itself: The native search-terms report can help you find negatives, but it's considerably more manual; Google's auto-apply system currently focuses on a limited set of recommendation types rather than acting as a dedicated negative-keyword auditor. Google Help Google Help

Bottom line: If you're managing enough spend that manually combing through search terms is painful, I'd test Optmyzr first. It's specifically built around the workflow you're describing rather than just providing another reporting dashboard.

If you tell me Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, or both + roughly monthly spend, I can give you the 2–3 best platforms and which one will identify wasted spend fastest.

Yes. If your specific problem is “we’re paying a lot for clicks, but certain landing pages produce few or zero conversions,” there are a few tools that are much better suited than generic analytics dashboards.

Best fit: Optmyzr

Optmyzr is probably the closest match to what you're describing.

Its Landing Page Analysis specifically identifies landing pages with high click volume/spend but low conversion rates and categorizes them as “Expensive.” That lets you go from:

Campaign → keyword/search term → landing page → spend → conversions

and identify where the money is leaking. Optmyzr Help Center

It also has automated strategies for finding keywords with lots of clicks but no conversions, expensive ad groups, placements, locations, and other sources of wasted spend. Optmyzr Help Center Optmyzr Help Center

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Other useful options

• Google Ads + GA4 — Best if you want a lower-cost/native approach. GA4's attribution reports can show the paths users take before converting, while Google Ads gives you the actual click and cost data. Google Help Google Help
• Looker Studio — Good for building a custom “wasted spend by landing page” dashboard. You can calculate things like spend / conversions, CPC, conversion rate, and spend on zero-conversion pages.
• Microsoft Clarity — Useful as a second layer: once you've found an expensive landing page, session recordings/heatmaps can help explain why visitors aren't converting.
• VWO / Hotjar-style CRO tools — Better when the question becomes “what is wrong with this page?” rather than “where is my ad spend being wasted?”

What I'd actually use

For a serious PPC account, I'd combine:

Google Ads → Optmyzr → GA4 → Clarity

The key report I'd want is something like:

Then flag pages where spend is substantial relative to your acceptable CPA but conversions are below the statistically reasonable expectation.

One important caveat: don't automatically label every zero-conversion page as wasted spend. Conversion lag and attribution can make today's expensive clicks look unprofitable temporarily, and tracking problems can also create apparent zero-conversion pages. Google specifically notes that landing-page tracking, redirects, GCLID handling, and delayed conversions can cause discrepancies. Google Help Optmyzr Google Ads Optimization

If you tell me whether you're running Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft, or multiple channels—and roughly how much you spend per month—I can narrow this down to the 2–3 tools I'd actually pay for and explain exactly how I'd configure the waste detection.

Yes. This has become a fairly active category, especially for Google Shopping and Performance Max accounts. There are three levels of sophistication:

1. Purpose-built Shopping audit tools (best for finding wasted spend)

These connect to Google Ads and Merchant Center with read-only access and specifically look for:

• Search queries with spend but no conversions
• Products ("vampire SKUs") that consume budget without sales
• Missing negative keyword opportunities
• Feed issues that cause poor query matching
• Budget concentration on low-ROAS products

Examples include:

• AdTool (myWebHero) – focuses heavily on Shopping accounts and reports non-converting search terms, wasted spend by product, feed health, and Merchant Center issues. app.mywebhero.co.ukcloudginny.comgetdina.tech
• AdTunez – identifies zero-conversion keywords, product budget dominance, and high-converting search terms that should be promoted. www.adtunez.com
• AdSentry – AI-powered audits with estimated dollar value of wasted spend and negative keyword recommendations. www.adsentry.co

2. PPC optimization platforms

These continuously monitor accounts rather than performing one-off audits.

Examples:

• Optmyzr
• Karooya
• Opteo
• TrueClicks
• Campaign Owl

These generally provide:

• recurring search term reviews
• automated alerts
• negative keyword suggestions
• account health scoring
• optimization workflows

Campaign Owl, for example, includes AI search term classification and estimates the financial impact of issues. campaignowl.co.uk

3. AI-powered assistants

A newer category is AI agents that:

• classify every search term by intent
• estimate wasted spend
• suggest negatives
• sometimes even prepare changes for approval

Examples include:

• BidSense www.bidsensy.com
• Cloudginny cloudginny.com
• Dina getdina.tech

These are closer to "AI PPC analysts" than traditional dashboards.

What I'd actually want from a tool

If I were choosing one today, I'd expect it to answer questions like:

Simply flagging "low CTR" or "low ROAS" is much less actionable.

If you're thinking about building one

There's still room for a differentiated product because most current tools are rule-based. A stronger AI system could:

• understand semantic relevance instead of relying only on conversions
• identify patterns across thousands of search queries
• cluster irrelevant searches automatically
• estimate confidence before recommending negatives
• explain why a query is a poor fit
• generate Google Ads Editor bulk uploads
• prioritize fixes by expected ROI rather than by spend alone

That moves beyond an audit into a decision-support tool.

If you're considering this as a SaaS, I think there's demand—particularly among agencies and Shopify merchants spending $5k–$100k/month on Shopping campaigns—provided it saves significant manual review time and produces recommendations users trust.

For a freelancer auditing a client account, the best tools are usually the ones that can connect quickly, surface obvious inefficiencies, and produce client-friendly findings without a long implementation project. The right choice depends on the account type (Google Ads, Meta Ads, SaaS subscriptions, analytics, etc.), but these are strong options:

Paid media / advertising spend audits

• Optmyzr — Good for Google Ads freelancers. It can quickly flag wasted spend from search terms, poor-performing keywords, budget allocation issues, and optimization opportunities. It’s designed for PPC managers rather than enterprise setups.
• Adalysis — Useful for Google Ads audits, especially finding inefficient ads, keywords, and experiments. It’s relatively lightweight compared with full marketing platforms.
• Semrush — Helpful if you audit paid search alongside SEO and competitor activity. It can reveal keyword opportunities and competitive gaps, though it’s broader than a pure spend-audit tool.
• Raven Tools — A practical option for freelancers who need audit reports and client-facing dashboards without building everything manually.

Quick "connect and find problems" tools

• Windsor.ai — Useful when the problem is fragmented marketing data. It connects ad platforms and analytics sources so you can spot anomalies and inefficient channels faster.
• Supermetrics — Good for pulling client data into Google Sheets or dashboards quickly. It’s more reporting-focused, but many freelancers use it to identify waste patterns.
• Looker Studio — Free and useful for building lightweight audit dashboards once data is connected.

If you mean SaaS/subscription waste

• Torii or Zylo — Better for companies trying to find unused software licenses, but usually overkill for a freelancer doing one-off audits.

Fastest freelancer workflow

For a low-setup audit, a common stack is:

1. Connect the client’s ad account to Optmyzr or Adalysis.
2. Pull performance data into Looker Studio or Sheets.
3. Look specifically for: - High-spend, low-conversion campaigns
4. Search terms triggering irrelevant clicks
5. Keywords with spend but no conversions
6. Display placements wasting budget
7. Geographic/device/time-of-day inefficiencies
8. Duplicate tools or subscriptions (if auditing SaaS)

If you mainly audit Google Ads accounts, I’d start with Optmyzr or Adalysis. If you’re doing broader marketing spend audits across channels, Supermetrics + Looker Studio is often the simplest freelancer-friendly setup.

For a freelancer auditing a client account, the best tools are usually the ones that can connect quickly, surface anomalies, and produce a client-friendly report without a long implementation. The right choice depends on whether you mean ad spend (Google/Meta/etc.), SaaS spend, cloud costs, or general business expenses.

For marketing ad spend (most common freelancer use)

• Optmyzr — Good for Google Ads audits. It can quickly flag wasted spend patterns like poor search terms, wasted keywords, budget leaks, and weak campaigns. It is designed for PPC specialists rather than requiring a custom data setup.
• Adalysis — Useful for Google Ads account audits, especially finding wasted keywords, low-performing ads, and optimization opportunities.
• Semrush — Better if you want broader marketing intelligence (SEO + paid search competitor insights), though it is less of a pure “find wasted spend in this account” tool.
• WordStream — A simpler option for quick PPC evaluations and reporting, especially for small business accounts.

For SaaS subscription waste

• Ramp — Helps companies identify unused software subscriptions and spending patterns, though it is more finance-team oriented.
• Zylo — Strong for SaaS discovery and unused license tracking, usually better suited to larger organizations.

For cloud cost waste

• CloudHealth by VMware — Powerful for AWS/Azure/GCP optimization, but can be heavier than a freelancer typically needs.
• CloudZero — Good for engineering-focused teams that need detailed cloud cost visibility.

Quickest freelancer-friendly workflow

For a freelancer doing client audits, a lightweight stack is often:

1. Connect the client’s account (Google Ads, Meta Ads, analytics platform).
2. Run an automated audit tool.
3. Look for: - Spend with no conversions
4. High CPA campaigns
5. Broad match/search term waste
6. Duplicate keywords
7. Budget going to low-quality placements
8. Retargeting audiences that are too broad
9. Export a report with screenshots and estimated savings.

If you mean Google Ads specifically, I’d start with Optmyzr or Adalysis. If you mean a general “plug in client accounts and find money leaks” tool, tell me the type of accounts (ads, SaaS, cloud, finance, etc.) and I can narrow it down.