This week’s search marketing news: Search Console’s AI report reaches everyone, 1 in 7 ChatGPT ads lands off-topic, Meta starts crawling.
This week’s search news: the EU’s binding Google data-sharing order, Local Services Ads moving into Google Ads, and the SerpAPI ruling.
This week’s search marketing news: the EU’s Google ruling, AI Mode ads on 29% of commercial queries, ChatGPT’s dent in search volumes.
This week’s search marketing news: Search Console tracks socials, ChatGPT referrals jump 36.7%, Smart Bidding changes from 17 August.
Early access to ChatGPT ads gave us a first look at the platform, the creative, the costs and the targeting. Here’s an honest breakdown of what’s working, what isn’t, and where the gaps still are as of July 2026. Paid media doesn’t get a new mainstream surface very often. So when the chance came to…
This week’s search marketing news: 29% of search demand is declining, AI Overviews cut clicks 40%, and ChatGPT changes who it cites.
This week’s search marketing news: zero-click hits 68%, Amazon’s Alexa becomes an ad platform, Anthropic calls for an industry brake pedal.
Google retires standalone Display for Demand Gen, caps Ads reporting data at 37 months, and Pichai admits AI Overviews are too opinionated.
New AI Mode ad formats, Universal Cart, SynthID in Search, and WordPress 7.0.
GA gets an AI Assistant channel, Ahrefs proves schema doesn’t move AI citations, and Conde Nast plans for zero search traffic.
