Google doesn’t build products with B2B marketers in mind. Its largest budgets and transaction volume come from DTC and B2C brands, so that’s where product development naturally starts. That’s why new Google products rarely work for B2B out of the gate. Over my 15+ years in advertising, I’ve seen this pattern repeat: initial release, poor […]
OpenAI is pitching premium-priced ads in ChatGPT — with far less data than advertisers are used to getting. What’s happening. According to a report, OpenAI is pricing ChatGPT ads at roughly $60 per 1,000 impressions — about three times higher than typical Meta ads. Despite the cost, advertisers will receive only high-level reporting, such as […]
Google Ads is rolling out a new Experiment Center, giving advertisers a single place to test, measure, and compare campaign performance. What’s new. Google has launched a new help page introducing the Experiment Center, a unified dashboard that brings together traditional Experiments and Lift Studies under one roof. Advertisers can now manage tests around bidding, […]
Google is working toward a future where it understands what you want before you ever type a search. Now Google is pushing that thinking onto the device itself, using small AI models that perform nearly as well as much larger ones. What’s happening. In a research paper presented at EMNLP 2025, Google researchers show that […]
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google doesn’t have any current plans to introduce advertising into its Gemini AI assistant, citing unresolved questions about user trust. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Hassabis said AI assistants represent a different product than search. He believes Gemini should be built for users first. “In the […]
AI Overviews, which place generated answers directly at the top of search results, are improving the search experience for users. For businesses that rely on content to drive traffic from search engines, the impact is far less positive. Google has been moving toward more “helpful” results for years, and zero-click searches are nothing new. AI […]
Every AI vendor pitch follows the same script: “Our tool saves your team 40% of their time on X task.” The demo looks impressive. The return on investment (ROI) calculator backs it up, showing millions in labor cost savings. You get budget approval. You deploy. Six months later, your CFO asks: “Where’s the 40% productivity […]
Throughout 2025, SEO professionals reported the same story to leadership: organic traffic was down, clicks were declining, and attribution no longer made sense. AI-driven search experiences, zero-click results, and platform-level answers widened the gap between discovery and measurable visits, making it harder than ever to accurately report on organic performance. For many organizations, this showed […]
Google Analytics has never been perfect, but it used to feel familiar. The shift to Google Analytics 4 forced PPC marketers to rethink how they pull insights, not just where to click. Reports that once lived front and center now take more effort to find. Some require extra setup. Others feel less intuitive than before […]
Google published a research paper on how to extract user intent from user interactions that can then be used for autonomous agents. The method they discovered uses on-device small models that do not need to send data back to Google, which means that a user’s privacy is protected. The researchers discovered they were able to […]