ChatGPT Ads now supports conversion bidding, geographic exclusions, and bulk campaign management tools.

Google clarified review snippet structured data guidelines to explicitly prohibit fake reviews and those with undisclosed incentives.

Google expands AI Max to shopping campaigns with new customization options while rolling out additional AI features across Google Merchant Center.

Google has replaced its Comparison Listing ads with CSS Product Listing ads, which appear alongside merchant listings in shopping carousels.

Google refreshed its crawl budget guidance to clarify that all sites start with the same conservative crawl capacity limit, which can expand automatically if demand and health metrics support it.

Google is consolidating Local Services Ads into its main Google Ads platform via a new Performance Max campaign type, rolling out in phases from August 2026 through 2027.

Alex Lieberman walks through his Claude-powered content system that uses AI personas, voice guides, and feedback loops to eliminate writer's block and scale consistent output.

Meta launched Business Agents—enterprise-grade AI systems that handle sales, support, and lead generation directly within WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DM.

X is beta-testing Grok integration in Ads Manager to let advertisers get AI-powered guidance on campaigns, moving toward eventual full automation.

Apple has updated its Maps Ads policies to prohibit home service businesses, bail bonds, crypto ATMs, and certain medical services from advertising on the platform.

Google's Gary Illyes says sites are better off omitting lastmod dates in XML sitemaps entirely if those dates are incorrect or unreliable.

Google Images is redesigning its interface with a Pinterest-like gallery layout, AI generation capabilities, and a new collections feature for saving images.

Google has published a new resource explaining how content from social and video platforms performs in its search results.

Google Local Services Ads have switched to displaying Google Business Profile phone numbers for call tracking instead of advertiser-specified Google Ads numbers, and the change appears to be permanent.

The IAB released AAMP 3.0 with OpenProposal to standardize AI-driven media buying, plus a measurement services contract template.

Microsoft is testing new labels on Bing product carousels to highlight Top Picks, Price Drops, Sales, and other attributes.

OpenAI is testing a new ad format in ChatGPT that launches a sponsored business agent when users click an ad.

Stas Levitan of LightSite AI outlines four first-party metrics marketers can monitor to correlate AI bot engagement with actual organic traffic outcomes.

Google is expanding AI-powered performance insights in Merchant Center to merchants in Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand.

WordPress is launching a security initiative to help protect sites against vulnerabilities as AI tools make exploits easier to discover.

Seismic and Highspot merged into a $100M R&D AI revenue-enablement platform, but Forrester warns most customers lack the data integration and infrastructure to use advanced capabilities.

Google explicitly warns Shopify merchants not to uninstall and reinstall the Google & YouTube app, as the Content API to Merchant API migration will happen automatically by August 18.

Andrej Karpathy recommends prompting LLMs to write in aerospace manual style or output diagrams, HTML, and videos for clearer explanations.

Google and OpenAI are expanding features that let users maintain standing search requests rather than individual one-off queries.

Google Local Service Ads now obscure phone numbers until users hover over the ad, requiring a click-to-reveal interaction.

Bing is testing a new 'Recommended By' label in product search results, though product links route to retailers rather than the recommending entity.

Google Ads sponsored product carousel results are missing product images, either due to a bug or an ongoing test.

Google is testing the removal of the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from its search interface, replacing it in some cases with AI-related options.

Google is experimenting with variable product grid layouts in search results, testing configurations that show three to five products.

Cloudflare has moved its Monetization Gateway and Pay Per Use tools into beta, enabling per-request charging for AI agents and publisher compensation for AI usage.

OpenAI has enabled its Dots product to automatically run read-only research checks on connected apps between user conversations.

Salesforce is acquiring Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform, for approximately $2 billion to add qualitative research capabilities to its CRM and marketing products.

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Google is experimenting with a two-row button layout for local search panel actions on mobile devices.

Google Maps is placing some service area business pins in the ocean instead of at correct locations.

Google is expanding monitoring capabilities in its AI Mode search feature from paid subscribers to all users globally.

Anthropic released updated prompting guidance for Claude Opus 5.5, recommending developers retest effort settings and reconsider certain prompt patterns.

Google removed Web Search Service API documentation it had accidentally published, though the API itself remains unavailable to most users.

Google updated several Google Merchant Center policy documents covering product eligibility, content standards, and prohibited categories.

Google is testing a "Loading..." button to replace "Show More" under AI Overviews.

Google is testing alternative sitelinks designs in mobile search results, including a vertical list format with a left-side accent line.

X is launching a rewards program to encourage developers to build AI bots powered by Grok, its proprietary language model.

Bing is testing an editable icon on search images that lets users modify them using Bing's AI image editing feature.

Microsoft is testing renaming Bing's Copilot search tab to AI Mode, aligning its naming with Google's terminology.

Meta is designing cute characters and hardware around always-on AI recording to increase user adoption while addressing data privacy concerns.

Bing is testing a new sitelinks interface variant that displays link descriptions when users hover over individual sitelinks.

YouTube is expanding Ask YouTube AI with shopping capabilities that surface product reviews in comparison tables and answer product questions on watch pages.

Google published documentation for using experiments to test AI Max campaigns against Dynamic Search Ads.