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Google Ads Al Max For Search Campaigns In The Interface

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 30, 2025

Google Ads Renames Search Max to AI Max to Highlight AI-Powered Campaign Optimization Overview of the Name Change Google has updated its advertising interface by renaming the Search Max campaign type to…

Google Ads Channel‬‭ Reporting For Performance Max In The Wild

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 30, 2025

Google Ads Introduces Beta Channel Reporting for Performance Max Campaigns New Channel Reporting Provides Detailed Insights Google Ads has launched a beta version of channel performance reporting for Performance Max (PMax) campaigns,…

YouTube Launches Side-by-Side Ads for Livestreams

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 29, 2025

YouTube Introduces Side-by-Side Mid-Roll Ads to Enhance Livestream Monetization Overview of Side-by-Side Ads on YouTube Livestreams YouTube is launching a new advertising format for eligible Connected TV (CTV) and web livestream broadcasts…

Google Ads Can Show Above/Below AIO or Within AI Overviews But Not Both At Same Time

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 29, 2025

How Google Ads Display in AI Overviews: Placement and Keyword Match Insights Ad Placement Rules in Google AI Overviews Google Ads can appear either above or below AI Overviews or within the…

Google Ads To Allow Search Ads For Melatonin

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 29, 2025

Google Ads Expands Melatonin Advertising Beyond US and Canada Starting June 2025 Policy Update on Melatonin Advertising In June 2025, Google Ads will revise its Healthcare and Medicines policy to remove restrictions…

LinkedIn Launches Conversions API Playbook

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 28, 2025

LinkedIn Conversions API Overview LinkedIn has released a comprehensive guide on utilizing its Conversions API, designed to enhance ad campaign performance by integrating both online and offline data sources into LinkedIn’s systems….

YouTube Updates Content Reviews to Maximize Ad Opportunities

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 27, 2025

YouTube’s Improved Monetization Review Process YouTube is enhancing its system to help creators monetize content faster and reduce restrictions by automating secondary reviews of videos flagged with a yellow dollar sign (indicating…

LinkedIn Now Has a Searchable Database of All Promoted Jobs in the App

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 26, 2025

Expanded trasparency into LinkedIn’s ad elements.

Google Ads Help Document On Ads In AI Overviews & Experiences

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 26, 2025

Google has released a new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus, they added a new landing page that contains a link to this single document named Ads in AI-Powered…

Google Ads Lowers Customer Lists Requirement For Target Network On Search Campaigns

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 26, 2025

Google Ads, sometime after June 2024 and November 2024, updated the size of your data segment requirement from 1,000 active visitors in a 30-day period to 100 active visitors in the same…

Google AdSense New Setting For Anchor Ad Positions

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 23, 2025

Google has added a setting for AdSense publishers to pick the positions of their anchor ads. They can pick from up to six different settings depending on top/bottom or side anchor ads.

Google AdSense Adds Display Ads Option For Ad Intents

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 23, 2025

Google has added a new display ads option for ad intents. The new option lets you pick between always show display ads with organic search results or show search ads with organic…

LinkedIn Provides More Ad Engagement Insight in Revenue Attribution Report

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 22, 2025

Now you’ll be able to better track a specific company’s path to purchase.

An Overview of Each Platform’s AI Tools for Advertisers

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 22, 2025

AI tools are driving better response for many advertisers.

Reddit Expands Dynamic Ads to All Advertisers

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 22, 2025

The option will help you reach high-intent shoppers in relevant subreddit communities. 

Google AI Mode & AI Overviews Desktop Gets Ads

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 22, 2025

Google is now pushing search ads on AI Mode and the desktop version of AI Overviews. Google’s Vidhya Srinivasan said at Google Marketing Live, “we’re expanding ads in AI Overviews to desktop,…

Google Ads New Smart Bidding Exploration

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 22, 2025

Google announced a new bidding update to Google Ads named Smart Bidding Exploration. Google said this is the “biggest update to bidding in over a decade.”

Google Ads Announces New AI Tools & Agentic Capabilities

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 22, 2025

Google announced a number of AI-related features to help advertisers create and manage their ads account across Google Ads and Merchant Center. These include new AI tools for creating ads and creatives…

Google Announces a Range of AI Powered Ad Updates at Marketing Live

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 21, 2025

Google’s rolling out a range of AI-powered tools for advertisers.

Google Brings Ads to AI Mode

Source: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Trends, Techniques & Marketing

By: Kendra Barnett

Posted on May 21, 2025

The search giant is inserting ads into its AI answers, as users ask more commercial questions

Google Ads Graphs Gain Performance Explanations

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 20, 2025

Google Ads has added explanations for your performance changes directly in the charts and graphs in your Google Ads console. You can click the highlighed section of the graph to see explanations…

Google AdSense Deprecates Account Level Control For Non Personalized Ads

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 20, 2025

Google announced it has deprecated the Account level control for non personalized ads within Google AdSense’s settings in privacy and messaging. Instead, Google said “use the IAB TCF framework for collecting and…

Meta Will Soon Enable Advertisers to Test Experimental AI Features

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 19, 2025

Meta’s launching a new program that will enable advertisers to try out its evolving AI ad tools.

Meta Adds Threads Feed Ads to its Marketing API

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 19, 2025

More ways to launch and manage Threads ad campaigns.

Google Ads Spending Bug With New Customer Acquisition

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 19, 2025

Google has a bug with Google Ads where for campaigns running on New Customer Acquisition they are not able to spend the set budget. This bug was confirmed with Google and has…

Google’s Pichai Says Ads With AI Overviews Earn Same As Ads Without AI Overviews

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 16, 2025

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said that search ads with AI Overviews are at a baseline, at the same level as search ads without AI Overviews, in terms of ad revenue per query….

Bing Shopping Testing Shading Site Name In Search Results

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 16, 2025

Microsoft is testing shading the site names, the brand names, of retailers in the Bing Shopping search results. So the name Amazon is in a blue shaded background color as opposed to…

YouTube Outlines New Ad Options and Usage Stats at BrandCast 2025

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

Posted on May 15, 2025

The latest ad updates from YouTube.

Best PPC Tools: My 9 Top Picks Under $300

Source: Paid Marketing - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Mateusz Makosiewicz

Posted on May 15, 2025

These tools cover everything from automation, keyword research to click fraud prevention and landing page building—perfect for marketers on a budget.

Google Ads Ads Funded By Label

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on May 15, 2025

Earlier this month, Google updated its Ads Transparency policy to specify that it will display the payment profile name as the payer name for verified advertisers. Well, now we are starting to…

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