The feed
Tracked from the official platform announcements, decoded for media buyers. The change, who it hits, and the exact plays to run.
LinkedIn just lowered the production barrier for B2B creative volume, but the 20% CTR lift they're selling deserves a hard look before you reorganize your workflow around it.
Meta's new brand-aware AI creative system generates, tests, and iterates ads from your existing brand assets, and the less you understand the mechanism, the more budget you'll hand to a black box.
TikTok's Symphony Agent turns its scattered AI tools into a single orchestrated workflow, making creative volume and creator sourcing the same job.
TikTok killed the manual-vs-Smart+ fork and replaced it with per-module toggles, giving buyers granular control over targeting, budget, and placements inside a single campaign build.
Asset experiments give Performance Max advertisers the first structured way to prove which creative actually drives conversions, not just which one Google's algorithm happened to favor.
Meta's AI sales agent now handles qualification, recommendations, and closes inside WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and it sits directly under your click-to-message campaigns.
Standalone Display campaigns are being retired, your GDN buying now lives inside Demand Gen, and you need to migrate before Google does it for you.
AI Max bundles broad query matching, AI-generated copy, and dynamic URLs into a single toggle, and it's now on by default for any Search campaign you upgrade.
Google collapsed its scattered in-product AI assistants into a single cross-platform agent, and that changes how campaign decisions get made, not just how fast they get made.
Microsoft is closing the automation and transparency gap with Google fast, and the new tools change how you should structure, measure, and optimize Microsoft campaigns right now.
GMV Max finally folds affiliate commissions, coupons, and platform fees into its optimization math, which changes what the algorithm bids for and who it targets.
Three legacy Search features are folding into AI Max whether you're ready or not, here's how to migrate on your terms before September forces the issue.
Meta just closed the server-side tracking gap for every advertiser without engineering resources, and quietly started enriching your Pixel events with AI, here's what both changes mean for your signal quality and optimization.
Google's 2026 Merchant Center spec update adds product video eligibility, tightens image minimums to 500x500, and introduces product-level shipping controls, each with its own enforcement date you need to calendar now.
Meta is testing a system where a URL and a budget is all you need to launch a campaign, the AI handles creative, targeting, placement, and bidding. Here's what that actually means for buyers who care about control.
Meta now requires an actual link click to count as click-through attribution, reclassifying engagement-driven conversions into a new "engage-through" bucket that most accounts have turned on without realizing it.
Meta just told you exactly what's running your auction, and the levers that matter most have shifted from targeting to creative diversity and attribution model choice.
Custom Identity is gone, if you're not running Spark Ads from a verified, linked profile, new campaigns stop working in 2026.