As Google continues to push for automation, advertisers have gotten more creative about making updated best practices, including smart bidding strategies, work for their companies and verticals. While value-based bidding has become a staple for ecommerce and retail brands, non-retail verticals have struggled to incorporate it effectively into their holistic PPC strategies. This article explores … Read more
Automation in digital advertising has become a lifeline. If you’re thinking of the latter without the former, you’re falling behind competitors. While the idea of robots stealing marketing jobs plagues worriers and late-embracers, automation frees up time for advertising teams to focus more on branding, strategy, data and, in turn, creative. PPC advertisers must embrace … Read more
The Microsoft Audience Network has moved predictive targeting to general availability. Following a successful pilot, all advertisers will now be able to use the feature in their campaigns. Why we care: Predictive targeting can help advertisers easily find new audiences that they may not have previously considered targeting. Not only are the identified audience relevant, … Read more
Google and Microsoft are placing ads into AI experiments without giving brands the choice to opt out. Advertisers are now concerned that their products and services could be promoted next to inappropriate content. Why we care: Brands could potentially be at risk of damage to their reputation should their products or services be advertised next … Read more
Microsoft Advertising will only show ads from verified advertisers, starting Aug. 1, the company announced. Why we care. If you haven’t completed the Microsoft Ads verification requirements, you’ll need to do so before Aug. 1 to avoid any ad delivery interruptions. Timeline. The Microsoft Ads Advertiser Identity Verification program was announced in June 2022. Key upcoming … Read more
The Google Ads advertiser interface and console is currently down, going down at about 9:10 am ET this morning. Advertisers are trying to login to manage their accounts but they are presented with a 500 server status error. What it looks like. There are a flurry of complaints on Twitter, which I collected over here, … Read more
Merchants will soon have a new tool in their advertising toolbelt: Google’s Product Studio. With the help of generative AI, Product Studio will help merchants create unique product imagery. Here’s what was announced today at Google Marketing Live. With this tool, advertisers can lean on Google’s generative AI to help enhance their creative in a … Read more
Advertisers and YouTube creators may benefit from new AI solutions Google is reportedly working on. Google Ads. Generative AI tools, powered by PaLM 2, will help advertisers create media assets, CNBC reported, based on internal Google documents. Unfortunately, that’s as much detail as we know for now. We’ve previously reported that generative AI is coming … Read more
Meta is starting to issue refunds to advertisers impacted by a glitch last month that resulted in overspending and higher than usual CPAs. Why we care. Meta needs to make this right for all of its advertisers of all sizes. It’s good that the refunds are starting, but it’s been over a month and this … Read more
Meta has introduced the AI Sandbox, which will bring generative AI to its advertisers. Meta’s three new generative AI features. Select Meta advertisers can now create text variations, generate images from prompts and adjust image sizes – all with the ultimate goal of making the ads more engaging. Text variation. Simply enter your ad copy … Read more
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