At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google spelled out how ads are being pushed deeper into AI-assisted journeys: answers, product discovery, shopping recommendations and lead conversations. It introduced new Gemini-built ad formats in Search and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers and AI-powered Shopping ads. It also expanded Direct Offers for shoppers and introduced […]
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Marketing teams have spent the past two years being encouraged to use AI more often. Use it for campaign planning, research, content repurposing, reporting, customer insight, social copy, presentation development and every awkward first draft nobody wants to write from scratch. The message was simple enough: experiment first, work out the model later. That phase
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For years, marketers have been told to improve the data they send back to Meta because it helps ads work better. Cleaner conversion events. Better server-side tracking. Stronger match quality. More reliable optimisation. All sensible enough, especially after Apple’s iOS 14.5 update weakened parts of Meta’s old tracking model. Now that same business-shared data may
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Microsoft is moving AI agents from the chat window into the working day. Its new assistant, Microsoft Scout, is designed to sit across Microsoft 365, desktop and web environments, helping users coordinate meetings, prepare materials, identify deliverables and keep work moving without needing to be prompted every time. For marketing, communications, digital and customer teams,
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Small businesses have rarely been short of tools. The harder problem is getting those tools to work together around the jobs that actually need doing. Claude for Small Business is Anthropic’s attempt to move AI into that gap. The product connects Claude to tools including HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks and PayPal.
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Google’s new AI Search reporting arrives as website traffic becomes a less reliable proxy for discovery. The company has announced new Search Console tools for generative AI Search features, including performance reporting for AI Overviews, AI Mode and AI Overviews in Discover. Google is also testing a new control that allows website owners to opt
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Customer service has always had an inbox problem. Meta now wants AI to help businesses answer it. At its Conversations 2026 event in London, Meta announced wider global access to Meta Business Agent, its AI-powered tool for handling customer interactions across WhatsApp, Messenger and, soon, Instagram. The company also introduced a Meta Business Agent Platform,
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OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT ads into five more markets and testing multi-advertiser placements that can show several sponsored results inside a single ChatGPT ad unit. The company is extending geographic targeting beyond the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to include the UK, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico. The move pushes ChatGPT ads from
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Microsoft has redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, cutting app load times by more than 50% and making its AI assistant cleaner, faster and more consistent across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps. The update gives Copilot a larger prompt box, a simpler interface and a single entry point across Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft
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Meta believes the future of online discovery looks less like traditional search and far more like algorithmic feeds, creators and AI-powered recommendations. In a new report and accompanying blog series, the company outlined how consumer behaviour is shifting away from conventional Google searches and towards social-first discovery experiences driven by short-form video, creators and personalised
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