Every day: what changed in social networks, ads and search, and what to do about it.
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Daily Marketing NewsMeta now lets businesses run ads in Threads without an Instagram profile, Pinterest added a campaign setup score, ChatGPT is built into Microsoft Word, and Metricool reports Meta ad spend up 47%.
Daily Marketing NewsChatbots give the wrong answer on money questions 57% of the time, a full day vanished from the Crawl stats report in Google Search Console, and the button that returns you to normal results in Web Guide stopped working.
Daily Marketing NewsInfillion bought Foursquare and tied store visits to purchase data, Taboola moves to buy financial ad network Dianomi for up to 27 million pounds, Bing starts asking you to prove you are human.
Daily Marketing NewsGoogle switched off free product listings in the European Economic Area, Google Ads opened AI dubbing of video ads into 33 languages, and Discover is testing a button that opens an AI summary instead of the article.
Daily Marketing NewsPinterest starts selling ads inside image search, Facebook pages without a paid subscription get 2 link posts a month, and a court orders Google to rewrite the rules of its ad auctions.
Daily Marketing NewsTelegram Ads opened the Banner in Bot format from €0.60 with targeting by social demographics, channel subscriptions and your own phone number list. Plus ChatGPT bakes unlabeled product picks into answers, and Google Ads now compares your spend with similar advertisers.
Daily Marketing NewsOpenAI is testing ads where the click keeps you inside ChatGPT talking to the brand's AI agent, Google is shaking the search results again, and Performance Max can now send clicks to your business profile.
Daily Marketing NewsGoogle pays site owners for content used in AI answers through a widget in Search Console, a product priority beta turned up in Google Ads, and rankings partly rolled back on 13 September.
Daily Marketing NewsOpenAI opened the public beta of the Agents API, Salesforce shipped 7 ready made agents for work roles, Harness: 77% of companies are confident they control their agents, and only 19% have a release gate.
Daily Marketing NewsSnapchat shows Dynamic Product Ads right inside chat, Instagram lets you pin tagged posts to your profile grid, X opens DMs via a 10 digit code.
Daily Marketing NewsGoogle shows how many days are left on a discount right in shopping ads, Merchant Center gets product video uploads, and June vanished from Search Console.
Daily Marketing NewsAds Manager now reports impressions and clicks for each carousel card, Reddit opens its Max AI campaigns to every advertiser, and Visa, Mastercard and Ant International merge three protocols into one Know-Your-Agent standard.