July 2026 was another eventful month for digital advertisers, with major platforms rolling out new AI-powered capabilities, creative tools, and campaign management features. Here’s a roundup of the most important advertising platform updates and what they mean for marketers.
Read more »If you sell on Amazon and run any kind of off-platform marketing — Google Ads, Meta, email, other partnerships — the Brand Referral Bonus (BRB) is one of the more underused levers on the table. It’s not new, but most brands either don’t have it configured correctly or don’t understand what it’s actually rewarding.
Read more »This week’s PPCChat centered on two major Google Ads announcements: changes to how limited-budget campaigns using Target CPA will behave, and the integration of Local Service Ads (LSA) into Performance Max. Industry experts shared their initial reactions, discussed how these updates could impact campaign performance and advertiser control, outlined the account changes they’re planning, and raised key unanswered questions about Google’s implementation and reporting.
Read more »Say you want to know whether AI Max is worth turning on for a campaign. The “correct” way to find out, earlier, was to clone the campaign, mirror every setting by hand, wait out a ramp-up period, and hope nothing drifted between the two copies while you weren’t looking. By the time you had a clean answer, the quarter had moved on. Google quietly fixed that with AI Max Experiments
Read more »This week’s PPCChat discussion focused on what experts are optimising in PPC. Does optimization vary by platforms or clients? Have their targeting strategies changed in the last year? Is AI playing a role in your optimizing or targeting strategy? Host Julie F Bacchini sought answers to these questions and more.
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