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MAY 8, 2024

Google manipulated ad auctions and inflated costs to increase revenue , harming advertisers, the Department of Justice argued last week in the U.S. What follows is a summary and some slides from the DOJ’s closing deck, specific to search advertising, that back up the DOJ’s argument. vs. Google antitrust trial.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Google’s loss in its federal antitrust case may mean huge changes for the company, web users and digital advertisers. It could result in a big hit to parent company Alphabet’s bottom line; more and better search choices for people; and lower-priced, more effective advertising. We won’t know until U.S. said Waddington.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Whether you’re a small local business or a large brand, understanding Amazon’s advertising options can help you reach new customers and grow your business. Amazon advertising can be broadly divided into two main categories: Sponsored ads This includes: Sponsored Products. Kindle Direct Publishing. Product detail pages.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Digital advertising could be on the cusp of changing forever. While there are numerous digital advertising providers, Google still captures approximately 28% of digital ad spend , making it the industry’s predominant player. If the DOJ wins the lawsuit, the digital advertising landscape will forever change.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

can now link their Facebook and Instagram accounts to Amazon, enabling them to buy products advertised in their feeds without having to leave the mobile apps. Benefits for advertisers. Rahmey explained that this new collaboartion could prove to be a significant revenue opportunity for Meta, Amazon and advertisers: B etter ad signals.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Facebook and Instagram advertisers filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta for $7 billion in San Francisco. The advertisers suing Meta allege that the Potential Reach metric used by the company to determine advertising costs relies on the total number of social media accounts rather than individual users. What Meta is saying.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Search and news advertising revenue increased 10% year on year, excluding traffic acquisition costs that Microsoft pays to publishers. The rise in search and news advertising revenue marks a significant boost from last quarter’s 3% increase. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Microsoft Advertising launched a new analytics dashboard to help publishers measure their advertising revenue more effectively. Contextual bid rejection details, such as demand issues, ad quality settings and price floors. Floors : Determine the average blocked bid price resulting from price floors for each publisher.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison said Google’s support of the overall ecosystem (searchers, advertisers and publishers) is important. Made in USA’ ad extensions spotted on Bing 2020: A “Made in USA” label accompanied by a flag icon appeared to be the latest automated ad extension test by Microsoft Advertising.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

YouTube is expanding Content Takeovers, allowing brands to become exclusive advertisers across additional inventory, such as: Entire creator channels. While the Content Takeover presents a substantial opportunity to broaden reach and guarantee 100% share of voice, it is likely accompanied by a considerable price tag. Custom lineups.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Google must face a proposed class action lawsuit from advertisers claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. However, some antitrust claims made by advertisers, particularly those centred on ad-buying tools, have been dismissed. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. judge has ruled.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dig deeper: PPC outlook: How advertisers can stay ahead in 2024 Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. Major ad platforms have given advertisers ways to improve in-platform reporting and help bidding and targeting algorithms find high-quality users. Google brand search (branded keywords, often over-valued).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google removed App campaign placement data from Ads and AdWords API reports 2022: Google: “We made this change because the data provided didn’t fully represent the complete view of the placements that help developers monitor brand safety for their advertisers.”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Google Search Console adds review snippets performance, enhancement and testing reports 2020: Google added an enhancements report, a performance report and added support for review snippets on the rich result testing tool. ” A Paid Search First? Scoring Super Bowl 2010 Commercials: How’s the Search Visibility?

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JANUARY 7, 2023

2021: How advertisers responded to the storming of the Capitol and the cases for and against pausing ads in times of disruption. 2020: Search engines continue to get better at understanding intent and rely less on keywords. Report: US Search Ad Spend Rises 12 Percent YoY In Q4 2013; Smartphone CPCs Drop. Also on this day.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While many companies believe broader advertising coverage will increase revenue, this often leads to poor quality of leads. After switching our focus to quality and running thought-out ad campaigns, we reduced advertising costs by 38% and increased conversions into appointments by 16%, more than five times the industry average.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

With billions of users worldwide, one of the lowest advertising costs and the growing preference for video, YouTube has some serious marketing potential. Aside from the well-known organic side of YouTube , it also offers highly lucrative marketing tools: retargeting video and display ads. Is YouTube a good way to advertise?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

We’ll continue to make tweaks, but this is designed for highly commercial queries where the layout is able to provide more relevant results for people searching and better performance for advertisers.” Read all about it in Confirmed: Google To Stop Showing Ads On Right Side Of Desktop Search Results Worldwide.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Welcome AJ Kohn & Ginny Marvin To Search Engine Land, Marketing Land. Marvin joined as a Contributing Writer, focusing primarily on paid advertising topics (she would go on to become Editor-in-Chief from October 2018 to December 2020). Bing Set To Advertise During Golden Globe Awards.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Google’s alternative to third-party cookies open for advertiser testing in Q2 2021 2021: And FLoC would die a year later. Google adds price drop appearance rich results to search results 2021: Google automatically calculated the price drop based on changes to structured data over time.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Events managers, experiential marketers and out-of-home (OOH) advertising executives all saw reduced employment opportunities as countries experienced lockdowns. As a marketing discipline becomes more or less in demand, salaries will change to compensate. This can lead to huge under-valuing of marketers.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Read all about it in How Google uses artificial intelligence In Google Search. Also on this day Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout 2021: Starting on April 6, Google would begin enforcing price accuracy between Merchant Center feeds and checkout.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Also on this day Google pledges $340 million in Google Ads credits for SMBs 2020: The credits would become available for eligible active advertisers “in the coming months.” Google Blog Search Fixing Blogroll Indexing Bug 2009: The Google Blog Search team was rolling out fixes to how it separates blogrolls from actual blog posts.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Part of his visit included a 89-page slide presentation, called “Search Integrity,” at Google’s Washington, D.C. Cutts said the same thing that Google had been telling the search marketing community for years – that Google’s results are determined by an algorithm and not tweaked to get particular sites ranking well.

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MARCH 10, 2023

The commission found that the “transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets.” In 2008, display advertising represented about 32% of total US online advertising (roughly $6.7 The deal was first announced April 13, 2007.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Google was typically vague, telling Search Engine Land: “Our goal is to encourage advertisers with landing pages that are excessively slow to speed up their sites. Google To Acquire BeatThatQuote.com 2011: BeatThatQuote.com was a price comparison website for loans and financial products.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

E-commerce sales jumped this holiday season as search marketers weathered Google updates. Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market. Report: Yahoo’s Search Ad Share Drops 36%. 2009: Yahoo’s search ad share dropped from 30.4% consumers spent $204.5 German Govt. by December.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Maryland’s ad tax is here, and advertisers should look to their European counterparts for how to deal with it 2021: Ads from companies (in this case, platforms like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) will be taxed at a rate of 2.5% By contrast, 125 big brands were using the site to market their products or services.

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JULY 12, 2023

Video advertising is a powerful tool for brands looking to engage audiences and drive conversions. Among the digital advertising giants, Amazon has cemented its position with a versatile suite of advertising solutions that cater to diverse marketing goals and audience demographics. Hulu, Peacock, Max) offer.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Your campaigns, managed by ‘Google Ads experts’ In 2019, some advertisers received an email from Google Ads with the headline: “We’ll focus on your campaigns, so you can focus on your business.” Unless advertisers opted out, they would have been added to the program automatically seven days after receiving the email.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

For retail advertisers, Shopping ads continue to overshadow text ads 2019: Fourth-quarter reports from Marin and Merkle highlighted the importance of Shopping ads for merchants’ search advertising strategies. billion in 2007. 2007: Many more people were reporting seeing Google Sitelinks update.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2023

5 takeaways from Google’s Q4 2018 earnings for search marketers 2019: Google executives discussed search experience, campaign, device and performance updates. 2015: Would it be Bing, Yahoo or Apple itself that supplied Safari’s search engine? Will Tagging Replace The Dewey Decimal System?

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MARCH 11, 2023

Bing Ads brings 3D ads to Search with Samsung 2019: Users could interact with the desktop ad format to inspect product features and details. DuckDuckGo CEO testifies: Privacy legislation isn’t ‘anti-advertising’ 2019: Gabriel Weinberg also believed that privacy legislation could make the internet more competitive.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Google My Business releases tool to manage your reviews 2021: Previously, there was no real way to see the status of reviews you submitted for a takedown in an organized fashion More PPC advertisers pause campaigns amid coronavirus upheaval 2020: “It’s surprising how fast things have changed in just a couple of days.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As for ads, Google said: “As always, Google search rankings are completely unrelated to Google’s paid advertising services and other partnerships, and there is absolutely no way for a webmaster to pay money to increase search rankings.” Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?

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JANUARY 8, 2023

This was welcome news for advertisers who had been adding the same lists of negative keyword accounts manually or using a script to automate cross-account negative lists. . Google Has Well Over A Million Advertisers. 2009: Google’s advertiser growth started at 89,000 in 2003, to 201,000 in 2004, 360,000 in 2005 and 600,000 in 2006.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

share of the ecommerce market, Amazon is far and away the biggest online retailer in the U.S. – With so many people shopping for everyday goods on Amazon, setting aside a chunk of your advertising budget to take advantage of the site’s commercial traffic is a smart business strategy. Boasting a 37.8% for every $1.00 The downside?

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