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Point-of-care advertising: judge the measurement as carefully as the setting

Allison Schiff’s PatientPoint reporting explores advertising in medical-office settings. This is specialist inventory, and the reported network footprint is not a count of new screens installed this week. Healthcare advertisers considering the channel should interrogate audience definitions and measurement before treating proximity to care as evidence of effectiveness.

Google Ads API

Google Ads API access moves from developer tokens to Cloud projects

Google says developer tokens were sunset on 9 September 2026. Google Ads API access now follows the Cloud project behind an application's credentials, making project ownership and access levels the immediate checks for integration teams.

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Snapchat brings catalog product ads into Sponsored Snaps

Snap announced on 10 September that Dynamic Product Ads for Sponsored Snaps are available to advertisers globally. The placement brings catalog products into Chat as part of its Commerce Power Pack.

SourceSnap Inc

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Snapchat opens Third-Party Web Optimization beta

Snap announced Third-Party Web Optimization in open beta on 10 September. It combines first- and third-party signals to optimize toward third-party purchase outcomes.

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Pinterest's men's trend report offers creative testing leads

Pinterest's 9 September Men's Trend Report highlights interests around offline activities, hosting, grooming and workwear. For relevant advertisers, these are leads for creative research and testing rather than population-wide forecasts of what men will buy.

SourcePinterest

OpenAI

ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds more control over creative edits

OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Images 2.5, with targeted image comments, sketch references and templates for formats including product photos. The company says it improves reference preservation and consistency across edits, with rollout across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex.

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Coalition calls for automated privacy signals in EU reform

A coalition publicised by noyb calls for automated privacy signals as part of EU reform. The 10 September letter is an advocacy position on a proposed policy approach, not an announcement that website consent requirements have already changed.

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Google Ads

Google introduces Data Strength Uplift for recovered conversions

Google's 10 September measurement announcement introduces Data Strength Uplift, a metric for conversions recovered through first-party data. It gives advertisers another way to examine measurement coverage, with an important distinction between capturing a sale and creating one.

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Google Ads AI Dashboards appear in some advertiser accounts

Thomas Eccel reports seeing AI Dashboards in some Google Ads accounts. The interface can create visual reports from text prompts and add an AI-generated summary. This supplies a reported availability update to the earlier dashboard preview, without establishing a general rollout or validating the suggested explanations.

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PMax destination choice: review website versus Business Profile

Natasha Kaurra highlights destination options involving a website and Business Profile, while noting that the functionality is not entirely new. For local advertisers, check where the customer lands and whether calls, forms and visits are measured appropriately. Convenience and qualified demand may not point to the same destination.

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IAB raises its 2026 US advertising growth forecast

IAB's September outlook raises its projected 2026 US advertising growth to 12.3%, up from 9.5% in January. The forecast draws on more than 200 brand and agency buyers and offers planning context across channels.

SourceIAB

Google Ads

EEA travel Search: check the experience your customers actually see

Google’s regional Search documentation now describes the EEA experience, with its 18 September changelog adding local-business query support for aggregator and supplier units. Some related travel experiences date back to 2024: the whole layout should not be described as newly launched.

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Meta introduces Muse with shopping and task-completion features

Meta announced Muse, a personal AI agent with shopping and task-completion capabilities, on 8 September. The US rollout introduces another potential route from a customer's request to a purchase, rather than a new ad-buying placement.

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YouTube

YouTube Shopping reaches the Netherlands with bol

YouTube’s Shopping Affiliate programme is expanding into the Netherlands with bol, connecting creator product recommendations with shopping. Google announced the move on 11 September; bol followed on 14 September. This is a dated catch-up on a relevant retail development.

Amazon Ads

Amazon adds saved drafts and a final review to coupon creation

Will Haire shared Amazon's Seller News notice describing a revised coupon-creation process: reuse a previous setup, save a draft and review the coupon before submission. The notice shown in the screenshot is dated 9 September 2026.

Google Merchant Center

Merchant Center adds detail to organic AI performance insights

Brodie Clark is credited with observing additional sections in Merchant Center's AI performance reporting. Barry Schwartz's 9 September coverage identifies Brodie's observation and screenshots; Google's current documentation explains the report's scope.

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