AI in Marketing
MCP Is Rewiring How AI Agents Run Ad Campaigns
MCP has moved from an open standard to live ad platform tooling. Here's what marketers should know before connecting AI agents to campaigns.
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Digital Marketing
Google Ads AI Dashboards Roll Out to Some Accounts
Google Ads AI Dashboards are appearing in accounts, turning text prompts into visual reports with real-time AI summaries. What it means for your reporting.
Digital Marketing
Google Ads Adds Local Customer Optimization For Store Goals
Google Ads is rolling out Local Customer Optimization in Performance Max plus Store Sales in Data Manager. Here's how to use both before Q4 peak.
Digital Marketing
When the Buying Job Outgrows Your Ad Platform
PPC Land argues the media buying job outgrew the buying platform years ago. Here is what that means for your ad stack, workflows and 2026 hiring plans.
Digital Marketing
COPPA in 2026: What Every Media Buyer Needs to Know
COPPA now covers cookies, device IDs and biometrics. Here's what the 2025 amendments, Google's TFAT signal and a $400M TikTok deal mean for media buyers.
Digital Marketing
Reach vs Frequency: The Media Math Every Buyer Should Know
Reach and frequency turn impressions into people. Here's how the math works, why platform definitions keep shifting, and what buyers should do about it.
Digital Marketing
Deduplication: The Silent Bug Inflating Your Conversions
Duplicate conversions never throw an error - your numbers just double. Here's how deduplication works across Meta, Google, Amazon and the bidstream in 2026.
E-commerce
Shopping Ad CTR Is Rising Because Impressions Are Falling
Shopping ad CTRs are climbing while impressions slide. Mike Ryan's analysis suggests AI Overviews may be reshaping which queries even get ads.
E-commerce
Your Product Feed Is Now Your Biggest Google Ads Lever
A product in digital advertising is a data record, not an object. Here's why feed completeness now decides visibility across Shopping, Performance Max and AI Mode.
Social Media
YouTube’s Co-Viewed Views: A Number Brands Can’t Check
YouTube's new co-viewed views metric can triple a video's audience number — but only creators see it, and brands have no way to verify it.
