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TikTok opens its premium content feature, Series, to more creators
Creators can now apply to get the Series feature, which lets creators charge users to access paywalled premium content.
Microsoft will only show ads from verified advertisers starting Aug. 1
Microsoft Advertising is also launching an Ad Library where users can view ads shown on Bing that have impressions in the EU.
Google fixes issue that took down Ads for about 2 hours
Google Ads advertisers were greeted with a 500 server error starting around 9:10 a.m. ET. Service was restored just before 11 a.m. ET.
4 Google Ads Custom Columns you need to use – and why
Here's how to use Custom Columns for surfacing trends and insights and answering your most important Google Ads account-related questions.
Google Analytics 4 audience builder gains six new dimensions and metrics
The new metrics include country, manual term, mobile device info, minute, new vs returning and session duration.
Twitter’s U.S. ad revenue drops 59%
Major advertisers have abandoned or reduced their spending on the platform. Can new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino turn things around?
Netflix tops list of YouTube’s top 10 most popular video ads
The most popular video ads earned more than 214 million video views on YouTube – with four notable trends for advertisers.
This Google Ads script uses GPT to summarize account performance
Use this script to provide GPT with facts about your account and get a performance summary that can be shared with clients and stakeholders.
Ask Instacart brings generative AI to Instacart’s search experience
Instacart's new search experience will feature sponsored product campaigns from consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands.
YouTube is the most profitable platform for creators, survey shows
If your brand is looking to maximize its ROI on influencer marketing, data shows YouTube is the best place to focus right now.
The latest jobs in search marketing
Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search marketing positions right now.
We turned Search Engine Land into a chatbot
We trained ChatGPT on our content and turned our website into a chatbot so you can explore, experiment and learn more about search marketing.
Google modifies shopping ads policies to enhance transparency
The changes to the YouTube Shopping ad and Discovery products ad requirements aim to clarify policies and enforcement procedures.
Diversifying your B2B paid media portfolio: When does it make sense?
Expanding your B2B portfolio (when it makes sense) can help you beat your competitors and reach your goals. Here's what to consider.
Microsoft Ads to launch UET Insights dashboard with new traffic data
The Universal Event Tracking Tag will update on June 29. Microsoft says the new data collection will help improve advertising performance.
Google Search of today won’t exist in 10 years, says DeepMind co-founder
Will 'old-school search' be gone in 10 years, thanks to ChatGPT, the new Bing and Google's new Search Generative Experience?
3 key trends impacting search marketing today
From privacy legislation to campaign consolidation, here’s a rundown of events that significantly impact the search marketing industry.
Google Ads adds 2 new campaign types: Video views, demand gen
Advertisers will have new video-first campaign types at their disposal, Video view campaigns and Lead gen campaigns.
Google Marketing Live 2023: Everything you need to know
Here's a recap of all the Ads and marketing news from Google's annual event, including lots of generative AI, new features and insights.
7 new Google Ads features include Brand restrictions in broad match, AI in Smart Bidding
More Google Ads improvements include top search categories for RSAs, campaign prefils, new tools for Ads Creative Studio and new insights.
Google Ads lets you create campaigns using conversational AI
Google AI can help you create Google Ads campaigns – keywords, headlines, descriptions and assets – directly within a chat experience.
Google Ads will create AI-powered assets that target search queries
Automatically created assets will now have the ability to leverage query-based generative AI at the campaign level.
Google PMax adds generative AI to create text assets, images
Performance Max is getting a more automated option to help you build campaigns. Also, new goals should aid in better customer targeting.
Google Search Generative Experience integrates Search, Shopping ads
A clearer picture has emerged with how ads will be natively integrated into Google's new Search Generative Experience.
Google Product Studio brings AI-generated images to advertisers
This new Google tool will help merchants punch up existing product images into alternate creative using Google AI.
Google: Merchant Center Next to replace Merchant Center
By 2024, Merchant Center Next will automatically be pulling in products, pricing, imagery and more from your website.
20% of CMOs to invest less in paid search, SEO this year
74% of CMOs plan to increase or maintain their PPC investment. That number is 80% on the SEO side, a new Gartner survey finds.
Nearly 30% of Instacart’s revenue is from advertising
Instacart may be known for delivering groceries, but advertising delivered $740 million in revenue for the company in 2022.
YouTube to offer unskippable 30-second ads on connected TV
YouTube is the most popular streaming service on TV screens in the U.S., with an estimated 150 million unique viewers.
New Google AI tools will let advertisers generate media assets
YouTube creators may also get multiple AI-generated suggestions on what topics they could create videos about.
U.S. paid search spend forecast to hit $110 billion in 2023
Within search, retail media networks (RMNs) are a rising star – it is projected to be near $30 billion in spending this year.
Google Chrome will soon add 6 relevance and measurement APIs
These enhancements are designed to offer a more realistic preview of the digital landscape without the presence of third-party cookies.
Google Analytics 4 audience builder gets a refresh
GA4 has added new dimensions and metrics, more robust manipulation of event value and event count, and matching between dates.
Your comprehensive guide to Performance Max campaigns
How to maximize your advertising across Google's networks.
Meta starts refunding advertisers for overspending glitch
Meta blamed the April bug on an automated system. A month later, many advertisers are still waiting for their refunds.
How to optimize your Google Ads’ post-click content
How can you further optimize your Google Ads program once everything is humming along smoothly? Start by looking at your post-click content.
3 Performance Max reporting and data limitations
Be mindful of these limitations when extracting and analyzing PMax performance data within and outside the Google Ads interface.
Search ad conversion rates down, cost per lead up in 2023
While CPCs increased, a drop in conversion rates resulted in higher CPLs in the 23 industries analyzed in this report.
Elon Musk names new Twitter CEO: Linda Yaccarino
Yaccarino, who was chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal Media, will focus on business operations at Twitter.
Meta advertisers will soon get access to generative AI tools
Meta's AI Sandbox will let advertisers generate text and background images, as well as adjust the sizes of creative assets.