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Google Ads
Google lists Search and Performance Max as supported Conversion Lift campaign types. Account eligibility and the requirement to contact a Google representative still apply.
Google Ads
Google Ads Editor 2.10 and earlier lose support on 19 October 2026. Check installed versions and prepare local unposted changes before upgrading.
ChatGPT Ads
ChatGPT Ads reporting can return attributed events beyond a campaign’s goal when requested through the conversions insights endpoint. Top-level conversion reporting remains goal-focused, while nested event counts can include non-goal activity.
Meta
Meta announces Customer Lifecycle Strategy availability for all advertisers. Acquisition campaigns receive exclusion recommendations; the single Audience Label option remains a test.
Reddit expands Max lead-generation workflows, audiences and CRM connections. HubSpot remains open beta, Dreamdata alpha, and some implementation work is planned for later in 2026.
Google Search Console
Google Search Central says the Search Console performance report is updating its country and device filters, allowing combined Google Search traffic to be viewed across selected countries. This concerns organic search reporting, not Google Ads targeting.
Meta Ads
Meta will restrict new US social-issue, election and political ads from 27 October through 3 November. Its planning deadlines fall earlier: authorisation by 13 October and ad submission by 20 October.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s Reporting API v1 can now return nonfatal warnings with completed reports. The report succeeds and its data remains valid, while a warning identifies a field and codes describing a condition that may affect values.
ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI Ads describes conversion-data integrations with Hightouch, Tealium and LiveRamp, plus a range of attribution partners. It also outlines early-stage work on geo-based incrementality and brand measurement.
ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI says it will test visual ads later in October in the US with an initial group of advertisers. The ads are planned for image-generation moments, are labeled, and are separate from the generated image.
Meta Ads
A practitioner observation shows status dots beside some Meta creative-enhancement options: green beside Adapt multi-image format and Relevant comments, and grey beside other options. The observed scope and effective date remain unknown.
TikTok Ads
TikTok says its ad network, previously known as Pangle, is generally available to advertisers targeting the US. The publisher name remains Pangle, while eligible campaigns can extend beyond TikTok through placements managed in Ads Manager.
TikTok Ads
TikTok is testing Buy Direct with eligible merchants. The separate checkout experience can use saved payment and address details, provides in-app order tracking, and keeps the merchant as Merchant of Record.
TikTok Ads
TikTok is testing Shopping Assistant with eligible merchants. The experience answers product questions using merchant-provided information in TikTok’s in-app browser, while checkout remains on the merchant’s website inside that browser.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics now documents programmatic user-group management through the Google Marketing Platform Admin API. The API methods date from 18 September; the Analytics note is dated 5 October.
Google Ads
Google’s Smart Bidding page has returned to a typical one-to-two conversion-cycle learning period after briefly referring to roughly 50 conversion events.
Google Ads
A Google email shared by Arpan Banerjee sets a 12 October start for automated promotion assets in eligible Search and Performance Max campaigns, with an account-level opt-out.
Google Ads
Google documents a beta that localises English-US Search campaigns into supported languages and creates a separate campaign with translated assets and keywords.
Industry
The FTC, Utah and Nevada allege that Lens.com advertised contact-lens prices without mandatory fees and misled customers about AutoRefill enrolment.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s Geographic Insights and Activation compares brand and category penetration across nine markets without requiring an Amazon Marketing Cloud setup.
Google Ads
Google documents a Performance Max asset-testing beta comparing two sets in one asset group, while a new observation suggests visibility in more accounts.
Google Ads
One observed Google Search ad carried two three-dot menus that opened the landing page and “Why this ad” information, but the test remains unconfirmed.
Microsoft Advertising
Three individual sightings suggest Bing is testing a results separator, a Minority-owned ad label and a blue treatment for sponsored Shopping listings.
Google Ads
A screenshot shared by Arpan Banerjee shows sponsored product cards in mobile Google results displaying titles, prices and calls to action without visible product images.
Industry
Google’s September 2026 spam update began on 24 September and had no completion notice by the review cut-off; reported volatility was not Google-confirmed.
Industry
Reporting says Judge Amit Mehta dismissed Chegg and Penske Media’s AI Overviews antitrust claims without prejudice, leaving open possible amended claims.
Google Ads
Google will allow some recognised brands to use a business name different from the destination domain when direct-relationship and product-sale conditions are met.
OpenAI
ChatGPT has added a Try on option for clothing and accessory listings using a selfie, alongside product Favourites on mobile and web.
Google Ads
Google’s Demand Gen discussion recommends using asset reporting to guide gradual additions instead of replacing creative on a fixed timetable.
Gemini
A user report, echoed by Google’s John Mueller, suggests Gemini may add UTM parameters to outbound links, but the exact values and rules are unknown.
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