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Automated bidding 

Automated bid strategies from Microsoft Advertising give you flexible, advanced tools to save you time and maximize your ad spend.

Automated bidding designed to meet your goals

Maintain control

You select the bid strategy, budgets, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Flexible offerings

Select different goals for different campaigns – whether you want to hit an impression, share, cost per acquisition (CPA), return on ad spend (ROAS) target, or volume of clicks or conversions.

Real-time and data driven

Advanced technologies, always improving. Optimized to the user on auction level.

Exclusively focused on your success

All decisions and optimizations help you achieve your advertising goals and performance targets.

Key features for automated bidding

Enhanced CPC

Helps you modify your bids for better efficiency. This is compatible with text ads, Dynamic Search ads, and shopping campaigns.

Maximize clicks

Helps you get as many clicks as possible and is compatible with text ads, Dynamic Search ads, and shopping campaigns.

Maximize conversions

Helps you get as many conversions as possible when working with text ads and Dynamic Search ads.

Target CPA

Helps you get as many conversions as possible, within your target cost per acquisition (CPA). Target CPA is compatible with text ads and Dynamic Search ads.

Target ROAS

Sets your bids to achieve your target return on ad spend (ROAS) and is compatible with text ads, Dynamic Search ads, and shopping campaigns.

Cost per completed view (CPCV)

With CPCV, we optimize your bids based on the cost you want to pay per completed view of a CTV ad. Then, Microsoft Advertising automatically finds traffic based on your targeting to show ads to potential customers who are likely to view your CTV ad to completion. Compatible with Connected TV (CTV) ads.

Cost per thousand impressions (CPM)

With CPM, we optimize your bids based on the cost you want to pay per thousand viewed video impressions. Then, Microsoft Advertising automatically adjusts your bids in real time to maximize your video reach. Compatible with online video ads.

Select one of our automated bid strategies today


Use automated bid strategies to ensure you're bidding effectively and maximizing the number of clicks and conversions.