There are 3 types of bid strategies in Google Ads: manual bidding, automated bidding and Smart Bidding. PPC practitioners generally fall into one of two camps: those who stick with the control of manual bidding, and those who lean into automation with Smart Bidding. But what about the middle? Is there a time and place […]

Keeping up-to-date on industry Google Ads benchmarks is crucial to help answer questions you might get from clients or exec such as: “Is this a good CTR?” “Why is our CPA so high?” “What’s a good conversion rate, anyway?” Questions like these come up all the time, especially when budgets are tight and performance dips […]

Amazon Ads and Roku are launching a partnership that will give brands access to over 80% of U.S. connected-TV households — a move poised to shake up the streaming ad market just in time for the 2025 holiday season. Driving the news. The two companies announced the partnership revealing that Amazon’s DSP will be used […]

President Trump is giving TikTok more time to resolve its future in the U.S., issuing a third 90-day extension on the enforcement of a law that could ban the platform unless it’s sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Driving the news. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday that Trump will sign a […]

Yoast SEO rushed out an update to fix a bug that introduced a known fingerprint of AI-generated content. The bug was highlighted on social media, and Yoast corrected the error within hours. HTML Classes Injected By AI It’s recently become known that highlighting then copying content generated ChatGPT and then pasting it directly into the […]

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced that the platform’s short-form video format now generates 200 billion daily views during a keynote address at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The milestone comes as the Google-owned platform marks its 20th anniversary and faces increasing competition from TikTok and Instagram Reels in the short-form video space. Key […]

Most people still think of AI as a tool for generating content or powering chatbots. But agentic AI is already driving deeper transformation—especially in customer experience. Unlike traditional AI, AI agents don’t just respond—they act. These systems plan, reason, and execute tasks across departments, pulling from structured and unstructured data to deliver real results. From […]

Google has updated its URL structure best practices SEO documentation to add new examples, while also making significant changes to the document’s structure. Google made it clear that no changes were made to how Google processes and handles URLs, and that this document update was just to help clarify the written guidance. What changed. Google […]

Google announced that its new video generation model, Veo 3, will be integrated into YouTube Shorts later this summer, allowing creators to generate short-form videos from simple text prompts. Driving the news. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan unveiled the update, pitching AI as a tool that empowers creators to tell stories and build careers. The integration […]

Google is rolling out Search Live with voice features through its AI Mode Labs experiment. You can now have natural, spoken conversations with Search while receiving web links in real-time. The was previewed at Google I/O and is now available today for U.S. users. How Search Live Voice Works You can access the feature by […]