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Google sunsets Google Ads API developer tokens: access levels now follow your Google Cloud project
Google Ads

Google sunsets Google Ads API developer tokens: access levels now follow your Google Cloud project

On 10 September 2026 Google moved Google Ads API access levels onto Google Cloud projects, began sunsetting developer tokens and API Center,…

Sep 13, 20263 min read
Amazon Ads opens ChatGPT ad inventory to select US advertisers in a DSP pilot
AI

Amazon Ads opens ChatGPT ad inventory to select US advertisers in a DSP pilot

Amazon Ads began a US-only pilot on 10 September letting select advertisers buy ChatGPT ads through its DSP. Formats, targeting and measurement…

Sep 13, 20263 min read
Brand identity explained, and why fast-growing Thai brands need a brand book
Social Media Marketing

Brand identity explained, and why fast-growing Thai brands need a brand book

Brand identity is the logo, colours, type, imagery and tone of voice. A brand book turns all of it into rules a…

Sep 12, 20263 min read
YouTube ad formats in 2026, and which objective each one fits
eCommerce Marketing

YouTube ad formats in 2026, and which objective each one fits

Skippable, non-skippable, bumper, in-feed, Masthead and Shorts: what each YouTube ad format does, when you pay for it, and which objective it…

Sep 12, 20263 min read
What an SEO agency actually does: the six stages, start to finish
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What an SEO agency actually does: the six stages, start to finish

Discovery, keyword research, technical fixes, content, off-site work and reporting: what each stage of an SEO engagement delivers and how long it…

Sep 12, 20263 min read
Google Ads links store sales through Data Manager, local toggle rolls out
Google Ads

Google Ads links store sales through Data Manager, local toggle rolls out

Google will let advertisers link a CRM or Google Sheet inside Data Manager to share in-store sales data, and the Performance Max…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
Almost all People Also Ask answers are now AI Overviews
geo

Almost all People Also Ask answers are now AI Overviews

Search Engine Roundtable reported on 9 September 2026 that AlsoAsked measured 97% of People Also Ask answers as AI Overviews in the…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
Merchant Center AI performance report gains three new sections
eCommerce Marketing

Merchant Center AI performance report gains three new sections

Search Engine Roundtable reported on 9 September 2026 that Google Merchant Center's AI Performance Insights report, launched in July 2026, has gained…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
Google's Meridian GeoX leaves beta with an unreplicated 31% savings claim
analytics

Google's Meridian GeoX leaves beta with an unreplicated 31% savings claim

Google's open-source geo incrementality library GeoX reached general availability on 9 September 2026 with claims of 31% budget savings. Here is what…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
A UK publisher lost 98% of its news search visibility after a .com move
SEO

A UK publisher lost 98% of its news search visibility after a .com move

Search Engine Journal reported on 8 September 2026 that NewzDash measured a UK news publisher's Search Visibility score falling about 98% within…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
ChatGPT Shopping now pulls most product picks from merchant feeds
eCommerce Marketing

ChatGPT Shopping now pulls most product picks from merchant feeds

Research from Profound, reported by Search Engine Journal on 9 September 2026, found feed-integrated product picks jumped from 8.26% to 61.54% on…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
Google Ads AI Dashboards are appearing in accounts, and the summaries need checking
Google Ads

Google Ads AI Dashboards are appearing in accounts, and the summaries need checking

Gemini-powered AI Dashboards began showing up in Google Ads accounts around 8 September 2026. Here is what was reported, what was left…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
Digital PR vs traditional PR: what changed, and why it now runs with SEO
geo

Digital PR vs traditional PR: what changed, and why it now runs with SEO

Digital PR is judged on the live URLs a story leaves behind rather than on clippings and reach. Here is the difference…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Why modern CRM has to live on LINE: three Thai customer shifts
Social Media Marketing

Why modern CRM has to live on LINE: three Thai customer shifts

Thai buyers open chat, ignore unknown numbers and close the sale in the message window. Here is what that changes about how…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
What remarketing is and why the same ad keeps following you
eCommerce Marketing

What remarketing is and why the same ad keeps following you

Remarketing shows ads only to people who already interacted with a business. Here is the mechanism, the psychology behind repetition, the platform…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that books, fills forms and buys
AI

Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that books, fills forms and buys

Meta announced Muse on 8 September 2026, a personal AI agent that opens a browser, fills forms, negotiates and pays. It launches…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
72 Google Maps ranking signals named, 25 of them already deprecated
SEO

72 Google Maps ranking signals named, 25 of them already deprecated

A recovered Google binary exposed 72 named Maps ranking signals from an internal system called Oyster Rank, a quarter of them marked…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Common Crawl read 584,107 llms.txt files and most were plugin output
geo

Common Crawl read 584,107 llms.txt files and most were plugin output

Common Crawl analysed 584,107 llms.txt files from its July 2026 crawl archive and found 68 percent were plugin or template output, 22…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Google documents two EEA-only search units: aggregator and supplier
SEO

Google documents two EEA-only search units: aggregator and supplier

Google published documentation on 8 September 2026 for two search result units that appear only in the European Economic Area. The aggregator…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Burger King Thailand is using Dragon Ball to buy visit frequency, not awareness
Content Marketing

Burger King Thailand is using Dragon Ball to buy visit frequency, not awareness

Burger King Thailand disclosed that customers visit about 2.3 times a month and about 3.5 times during a campaign. The Dragon Ball…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Bots and AI agents now pass half of web requests, and cleaning retargeting pools cost 20 percent more CPM
analytics

Bots and AI agents now pass half of web requests, and cleaning retargeting pools cost 20 percent more CPM

Cloudflare data cited by Digiday puts bots and AI agents at more than half of all web requests, and agencies say cleaning…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Australia proposes forcing platforms to offer a chronological feed as the default
Social Media Marketing

Australia proposes forcing platforms to offer a chronological feed as the default

Australia proposed on 8 September 2026 that social platforms notify every user and let them set a chronological default feed, with penalties…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
How Google Ads works and why some ads reach page one immediately
geo

How Google Ads works and why some ads reach page one immediately

Google Ads runs a new auction on every search. Here is how Ad Rank and Quality Score decide which ads show, what…

Sep 8, 20263 min read
AI era web design: what changed, and what Google and AI search can read in 2026
Social Media Marketing

AI era web design: what changed, and what Google and AI search can read in 2026

A page now has to satisfy a visitor, a browser measuring real experience, and a parser that never sees your CSS. Here…

Sep 8, 20263 min read