08/27/2026
If you run Local Services Ads (LSA) for a home services business, real estate, a law firm, a medical practice, or any other business that relies on Google's pay-per-lead ad platform, a change is coming to how you manage those campaigns, not to the fundamentals of how they work. Google has confirmed it is folding Local Services Ads into the main Google Ads platform, rolling accounts into what it calls “Performance Max campaigns with pay-per-lead goals.” The rollout is already underway.
That name alone has caused some understandable concern. Performance Max (PMAX) campaigns typically spread a budget across Search, Display, YouTube, Gmail, and more — which is not what most LSA advertisers signed up for. Based on Google's own published documentation and additional detail shared directly with our team by a Google representative, here's what is changing, what isn't, and what you need to do before your account migrates.
https://conversionpipeline.com/news/google-is-moving-local-services-ads-into-google-ads-what-you-need-to-know