Apple Ads replaces Custom Reports with Insights, a tool for analyzing campaign performance by campaign, ad placement, and keyword. It offers a landing page with performance snapshots, predefined customizable reports, and visualization options. Users can create, edit, share, download, and manage reports. It includes troubleshooting tips and limits on time dimensions and data ranges to help optimize ad campaigns effectively.
Run an automated Google Ads audit directly from Google Sheets with 40+ built-in checks. Review campaigns, ad groups, keywords, ads, and account settings to catch missed best practices and optimization gaps. Ideal for agencies and in-house teams to standardize audits, save hours of manual work, and turn findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
OpenAI is testing an Ads Manager for ChatGPT advertisers, allowing marketers to run, monitor, and optimize campaigns in real time. A small group of partners is providing feedback, and testers receive weekly CSV reports with performance data like clicks and impressions. Early advertisers must commit at least $200,000, so OpenAI needs to demonstrate that its ads deliver results.
Google Ads Editor 2.12 improves campaign management and creative testing. It raises Performance Max video limits to 15 and supports 9:16 portrait images. Non-skippable ads use a responsive format. Demand Gen campaigns add new customer goals, brand controls, hotel feed integration, a $5 minimum budget, and easier setup. Total Budgets enable fixed spend for promotions. Video bid guidance, text brand rules, account-level tracking, campaign filters, and bulk URL updates enhance efficiency.
Meta is changing how ad formats are selected, moving away from traditional formats like Flexible, Single image, Carousel, and Collection. Instead, ads will use a new system allowing multiple formats and creatives within a single ad, using Uploaded Media and Format display options. This shift enables ads to adapt dynamically across platforms, driven by AI, aiming to maximize advertiser results and Meta's revenue.
Starting March 2026, Merchant Center for Agencies is available in the U.S. and Canada, offering a centralized platform to manage client portfolios. It streamlines operations with a single interface, enhances oversight with a central dashboard, enables early issue detection to prevent suspensions, and helps improve client performance by identifying optimization and growth opportunities.
Google will add AI voice-over to Performance Max video ads by generating voice from headlines/descriptions and layering it onto videos without existing voice. This new feature creates a new video asset and is opt-out, not opt-in. Advertisers must disable it by March 20, 2026, under video enhancement controls if they don't want it. After that, voice-enhanced versions may be served automatically.
Meta will add extra charges called "Location Fees" to cover Digital Service Taxes in certain countries starting April 2026. The fees vary by country: Austria 5%, France 3%, Italy 3%, Spain 3%, Turkey 5%, and the UK 2%. These fees apply based on where ads are shown, not where the advertiser's business is located, increasing the effective CPM for campaigns in these markets.
Starting April 1, 2026, Customer Match uploads via the Google Ads API will no longer work. Users must switch to the Data Manager API for uploading and managing Customer Match data. This change affects developers who haven't uploaded Customer Match data in the last 180 days. The Data Manager API offers enhanced security, unified data ingestion, and new features like confidential matching and encryption. Other Google Ads API functions remain unchanged.
Amazon's new seller agreement lets it disable AI tools on its platform without appeal. It invested $50 billion in OpenAI and is building its own AI Seller Assistant to tighten control. eBay banned third-party AI shopping agents and plans its own AI. OpenAI's ChatGPT has 900 million weekly users who can buy without marketplaces. Marketplaces block outside AI and build their own to control product discovery, shifting from search to AI-driven shopping.
