It’s free! Take full advantage of Surfaces across Google. “In the past, I would just suggest, ‘Hey, just upload the products you actually want to advertise, it’s easier to manage,’” Kirk Williams, owner of ZATO Marketing, said in reference to what he would’ve advised clients before Google opened up its Shopping results to free listings, during […]

The cross-channel reporting is designed to help retailers and brands better understand and optimize ad performance across campaign types. New Google Ads retail category reporting allows retailers to see product category performance across Search and Shopping campaigns. The reports show performance across a set of pre-defined product categories based on labels Google “uses to categorize the words […]

Although the “privacy sandbox” from Google is likely to continue to evolve, the underlying concepts and objectives certainly reveal where it’s headed. With the Chrome announcement of a two-year target timeline to kill the third-party cookie, I thought it would be useful to help make sense of Chrome’s proposals to address advertising use cases without third-party cookies. The Context […]

Get your recipe markup in order with these new Google tools. Google launched new reports this morning in Google Search Console for Guided Recipes. Google launched a new Guided Recipes Enhancement report and also Guided Recipes in Rich Results test. This new feature allows you to “instantly validate the markup for individual recipes,” Google said. […]

Local news publishers have struggled to monetize spike in consumer interest. Google’s search liaison Danny Sullivan said Monday that Google “has never seen as many searches” as it has for content related to COVID-19. Much of it is tied to local news updates about the virus. How Google defines local news. Sullivan explains that Google defines “local news […]

Despite ‘significant slowdown’ in March, Google still managed to post 13% overall revenue growth. Google reported Q1 earnings this afternoon, beating analysts’ revenue expectations that were partly moderated by the COVID crisis. The company announced $41.16 billion in revenue compared with $40.3 billion expected. Significant slowdown in March. Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said, “Performance was strong during the […]

The new badge requirements will not go into effect until 2021 due to COVID-19 disruption. In February, Google announced sweeping changes to the requirements for agencies to qualify for the Google Partners badging and certification program. Those new requirements were set to take effect in June. Now, amid the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic and shelter […]

Developers will have more time to migrate to v2 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Google is postponing the Google Ads API v1 retirement and giving developers more flexibility around updates that require changes to their AdWords API and Google Ads API code. What’s changing. Developers will have more time to migrate to version two. The Google […]

The credits will be available for eligible active advertisers “in the coming months.” It is also expanding ad grants for COVID-19 public service announcements. Google released an update on its efforts aimed at providing support for businesses, health workers and organizations as well as governments during the coronavirus pandemic on Friday. As part of its […]

The face mask ban comes amid a rise in false claims around coronavirus prevention and price gouging. Lane Rizzardini@lanerizz Pretty sure @GoogleAds just shut down Face Mask ads @rustybrick @GinnyMarvin Google is cracking down on advertising for face masks during the coronavirus epidemic. The company began banning ads for face masks on Monday. Applies to […]