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Google adds generative AI insights, shopping ad campaign goals

Martech

New campaign goals. Google Ads now includes options for setting customer acquisition goals and optimizing campaigns with profit-focused metrics, helping advertisers prioritize profit and optimizations during peak shopping periods. This should make it easier for customers to find products nearby. Processing.

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Google phasing out Smart Campaigns in favor of Performance Max

Martech

Google is discontinuing its Smart Campaigns offering and integrating its features into Performance Max campaigns. This shift impacts advertisers using Google’s simplified campaign management tool and signals a broader push towards AI-driven, cross-platform advertising solutions. Why we care. The big picture.

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How brands are using AI in Meta’s Advantage+ campaigns

Martech

Apparel and home decor retailer Tuckernuck, and beauty brand Kitsch, have adopted AI-powered tools in Meta’s Advantage+ shopping campaigns solution to drive campaign performance on social media. The tools automate campaigns on these platforms while optimizing campaign targets. Advantage+ shopping campaigns.

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How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns

Search Engine Land

They also affect the approach and resources allocated to marketing activities. Because no two recessions or economic downsturns are the same, marketers operate in uncharted waters every time one occurs. As a result, organizations look to maintain their advertising/marketing effectiveness without increasing spend.

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Data, AI and advertising: 2025 predictions

Martech

We asked experts to share their views on how new tools and strategies will help advertisers and agencies make the most of their data in the coming year. Agencies leaning in Budgets will be tighter this year, so agencies will increasingly rely on technology to negotiate better deals for clients and measure campaign effectiveness.

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Why your marketing strategy should still be cookie-less despite Google’s shift

Martech

Restoring core marketing fundamentals Cookies offer a reassuring but largely misleading flow of consumer data. Cookies also encourage complacency, resulting in redundant, disruptive or misaligned campaigns. Various sources create more intentional, aligned and personalized marketing campaigns, even without third-party cookies.

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LinkedIn’s AI ad tool to launch globally this fall

Martech

LinkedIn is preparing to roll out Accelerate, its AI-driven campaign tool, to all advertisers globally by early fall. It was originally made available in October 2023 to selected North American advertisers, but by the time of Cannes Lions in June this year it had achieved a 50% global rollout in beta. How it works.

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