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Google Ads
Google’s Ads Liaison said reported out-of-area Local Services Ads were intentional because the firms served customers seeking that legal service in the searched area.
YouTube
Secondary reports say YouTube Shorts will further prioritise original content, potentially reducing distribution for channels dominated by minimally changed re-uploads.
ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI documents attribution controls for ChatGPT Ads Insights, but reported product-feed bulk uploads conflict with the current campaign quickstart.
Google Ads
Google added examples to its destination-not-working policy while saying enforcement is unchanged, helping separate technical faults from some structural errors.
Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Advertising has raised LinkedIn company-list capacity to 10,000, while LinkedIn data excludes users in the EEA, UK and Switzerland.
Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft will continue delivering new Advertising API features through SOAP and REST until SOAP’s unchanged deprecation date of 31 January 2027.
ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI ads lead Asad Awan described outcome-optimised bidding as a priority and prompt-driven ad creation as a direction, not a product launch.
Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft says optimisation experiments are generally available for Search, Shopping, Audience and Performance Max, with control and treatment traffic splits.
Google Ads
One observation shows sitelinks attached to a text ad in Google AI Mode, but Google has not confirmed availability, eligibility or separate reporting.
Google Ads
The Google Ads Campaigns column picker’s Setup group surfaces ad, keyword and asset diagnostics, although an observer disputes that the grouping is new.
Google Merchant Center
Google documents an optional mileage_allowance field for German vehicle instalment listings, linking finance or lease mileage caps to advertised payment terms.
Microsoft Advertising
A reported Bing test adds a one-line AI-written customer review from an advertiser’s Trustpilot profile to sponsored results, but its scope is unknown.
Meta Ads
A Meta account observation suggests Related media can be preselected during upload, potentially adding a newly uploaded image to every listed active ad.
Meta Ads
A reported Monitoring rules column in Meta Ads Manager shows alerts such as rising cost per result or falling ROAS in the campaigns table.
Meta Ads
Social Media Today reports that Instagram creators can boost livestreams from the composer or schedule them at least two hours ahead for three placements.
TikTok Ads
TikTok says ShopMy is the first affiliate platform integrated with its Content Suite API, connecting post discovery, permission and Spark Ads activation.
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity now supports editable brand terms in AI Visibility, making the branded versus non-branded split dependent on the maintained list.
Industry
Google updated its guidance to stress manual fact-checking and review of AI-generated content, including titles, meta descriptions, structured data and alt text.
Industry
Judge P. Kevin Castel denied Google summary judgment on main ad-tech claims from Gannett, Daily Mail and a publisher class, allowing the dispute to continue.
Industry
Chris Long found AI Overviews on 93 of 100 enterprise brand names tested, while DemandSphere and Ahrefs reported rises using different methods and query sets.
OpenAI
OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Sol and plugin improvements including sidebar homes, interactive panels and discovery in directories and conversations for all plans.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s redesigned Ads Data Manager separates sources, datasets and destinations while adding diagnostics, integrations and no-code tag configuration.
Amazon Ads
Amazon says its AMC Expert Tool converts natural-language requests into Amazon Marketing Cloud SQL in a US closed beta, with wider availability planned for early 2027.
Amazon Ads
Amazon says Marketing Stream v2 and Reporting API v1 became generally available worldwide on 30 September, expanding frequent and cross-account reporting.
Industry
Juozas Kaziukėnas reports that Meta’s Muse and Instinct can build multi-item carts from one request, but calls the feature experimental and presently unusable.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has added in-banner video, multi-image carousels and Alexa for Shopping prompts to Responsive eCommerce Creative, with availability varying by feature.
Amazon Ads
Amazon DSP’s 15-second Assets Based Creative videos can autoplay full screen and muted on Alexa+ Echo Show home screens in the US, Germany and UK.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has placed tools that generate display ads and video from product assets inside the Ads Agent conversation, which remains an expanded closed beta.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has renamed its buying platform Amazon Ads Agent, combining former Ads Console and DSP naming while its conversational assistant remains closed beta.
Amazon Ads
Amazon says US brands will be able to supply product knowledge for Alexa for Shopping conversations triggered by Sponsored Brands prompts from January 2027.
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