Month: March 2024

Facebook and Instagram advertisers filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta for $7 billion in San Francisco. They claim that the social media giant exaggerated ad viewership figures by up to 400%, leading them to pay inflated premiums for ad placements on its platforms. Potential Reach metric. The advertisers suing Meta allege that the Potential Reach

Reddit Ads Manager has been updated to simplify the process of creating and tracking campaigns more efficiently. The platform now offers six new automated features designed to provide advertisers with easy access to creative best practices. Why we care. These updates offer advertisers simpler ways to build campaigns and receive creative support, which could be

Google has issued a correction from its previous statement in early February that Web Stories no longer showed in Google Image search results, that is not true. What is true is that Google stopped showing the Web Stories icon in the image search results. Plus, Google Search Console had a reporting glitch with Web Stories

Amazon must now share details about the ads it serves in the European Union through a public library. The retail giant is being forced to provide more transparency about its ad operations under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) after losing an appeal in the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) for a temporary

LinkedIn is launching a new solution for monitoring campaign performance without third-party cookies. Dynamic UTMs, which will be available to all users globally by the end of March, simplify adding custom tracking elements to campaign URLs, improving tracking accuracy. Previously, marketers had to manually create UTM parameters for their campaigns, but with Dynamic UTMs, this

Instagram updated how hashtags work for discovery. Now, when users tap on a hashtag, they’re directed to broader search results, including profiles, instead of just a “Top Posts” feed. The platform announced this change was rolled out to encourage users to explore different parts of the platform, not just posts. Why we care. This update

Google released a dedicated guide for developers called the Performance Max developer guide. The document is aimed at helping developers access the necessary information to build PMax integrations more easily. Why we care. For developers working on PMax integration, this guide consolidates all necessary information into one convenient location. Additional improvements. Google Ads also announced

Bing Deep Search, an optional generative AI feature meant to help searchers with complex questions that don’t have simple answers, is now fully live for all users. Microsoft announced today that all users can now access Deep Search within Bing Search by clicking on the Deep Search button at the top of the search results

You should expect to see “some erosion of current traffic levels” from brand-related terms as a result of Google’s Search Generative Experience, according to a new Authoritas analysis. Why we care. Google just today announced it is rolling out SGE to users who aren’t opted into Search Labs, under the name of AI overviews. We’re

SEOs are already speculating about which update did what to which sites (the March 2024 core update or March 2024 spam update) and what sites should or shouldn’t be doing.  This is a bit dangerous. Meanwhile, Google is urging SEOs to be patient and to let this thing play out. Google isn’t yanking your chain.

Google Marketing Live registration is now open. The conference is Google’s annual event for showcasing its latest ad products, formats, developments, and updates. When is Google Marketing Live. Tuesday, May 21, starting at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT, live from Mountain View, Calif. How to register. You can register for Google Marketing Live 2024 here. Here’s

Performance Max ads have been touted as an efficient way to manage Google Ads across multiple Google-owned channels, making campaign management simpler for PPC advertisers. It combines all of Google Ads’ channel options together in one campaign and uses Google’s AI (Gemini) to optimize budgets and ad serving across all channels based on performance.  On

Google is making a number of changes to its executive team running Google Search: Liz Reid, who was leading up core search experiences, will now be the Head of Search at Google. Cheenu Venkatachary will be the new lead of Search quality and ranking. With these changes, Pandu Nayak is stepping down as lead of

Meta announced that CrowdTangle will be discontinued on Aug. 14, 2024, as the company shifts its focus toward developing new research tools. Until then, users can still access CrowdTangle and its Chrome Extension, with data updating in real-time. However, during this period, no new users can be added to accounts as the platform will be