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This week on Marketing O'Clock, the team breaks down Google’s announcement that it will be phasing out ETAs in favor of Responsive Search Ads. LinkedIn announces that it will be getting rid of its stories feature. Plus, Super Follows are finally here on Twitter.

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, Google Ads announces that marketers will soon have the ability to adjust conversion values for smart bidding. Reels are being tested on Facebook in the U.S. Plus, SEOs are up in arms as the Google search title tag chaos continues.

Join us for Marketing O'Talk as our guests discuss the realities of PPC advertising in 2021. PPC experts share how digital marketing demand has changed a year and a half into the pandemic. Plus, strategies to combat bad close variant matching, new features they are loving (and hating), and how to safely test automation in your accounts. Meet our lovely guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/Neptu...

This week on Marketing O’Clock, LinkedIn announced a new rating and review system for user profiles. The team discusses the brief disappearance of Google Ads search queries in Google Analytics. Plus, YouTube introduces new features to improve the platform search experience.

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, Google Ads search terms (briefly) come out of hiding, and Tik Tok has a totally original stories feature. Plus, Facebook is developing new privacy-focused ads.

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, Microsoft Ads announces a ton of new features, including Target Impression Share bidding, Dynamic Location extensions, and automated Multimedia extensions. Then, Mark breaks down why digital advertising costs are going up across the board due to unexpected second quarter gains. Plus, Google Ads Editor v1.7 adds support for Hotel ads and lead form extensions.

This week on Marketing O'Clock, Google has a new About This Result panel that will allow users to see why the engine gave them the results it did. Image Extensions are being seen on desktop, and finally, Google has announced an addition to their summer onslaught of algorithm changes, the Link Spam update.

This month on Marketing O’ Talk, Shep sits down with Sarah Burke, Christina Brodzky, and Anna Shutko to talk digital marketing reporting, data, analytics, and all things nerdy. Find out why data reporting and analysis matters, as well as some tips from the experts on using data effectively.

This week on Marketing O' Clock, Google is cracking down on ad policy violations with a new three strikes and you're out system. We REALLY hope they can do a better job at accurately calling out violations before it rolls out in September, 2021.  Then, YouTube rolls out premium subscriber-only live chats and polls. Plus, TikTok launches Spark Ads, giving brands the ability to r...

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, the summer go core updates continues as the Google July 2021 Core Update roll out is finally complete. Plus, Twitter tells fleets to fly home, the temporary tweet feature will be removed August 3rd.

This week on Marketing O' Clock, Microsoft announces a new responsive ad format for search called Multimedia Ads. Google rolls out the cleverly named July 2021 Core Update, and some data indicates that TikTok is well on its way to world domination (of video platforms). Plus, Facebook announces a new thread option that will allow public officials to provide updates on previous posts.

This week on Marketing O'Clock, Google announces that they won't be burning the cookies yet, as Google Chrome is delaying the planned 3rd party cookie phase out until 2023. Google has also decided to give spammers a taste of their own medicine, dropping two search spam algorithm updates within a week. Finally, Facebook announces a free newsletter platform creatively named Bulletin.

This month on Marketing O' Talk, digital marketing experts share essential tools for Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, & more! Christine Zirnheld and Greg Finn are joined by Andrea Cruz and PPGreg to talk about Google tools like keyword planner, Google Ads Editor, and Data Studio. Plus, the bunch discusses some standout third-party tools you'll go bananas over, from research tools like Scrape...

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, the audio l̶a̶n̶d̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶ soundscape is getting even more crowded as Spotify announces Greenroom and Facebook launches Live Audio Rooms. Google rolls out a slew of new features for Small Business Week, including simplifying YouTube ad creation for SMBs and adding the ability to edit your GMB profile right from search. Plus, Google announces Ads Creative Studio,...

This week on Marketing O'Clock, it's love at first Insight when Google Analytics and Search Console data come together for new Search Console Insights. Plus, Amazon websites are going to block Google's FLoC, new reports are here 4 marketers in Google Analytics, and Shop Pay is available to all shoppers on Facebook and Google, regardless of whether the merchant is a Shopify retailer.

This week on Marketing O'Clock, email marketers will want to unsubscribe from Apple's Mail Privacy Protection feature. Twitter finally releases the Twitter Blue subscription service, and we break down all the cool (and uncool) new features. Plus, Moz is acquired by iContact and we take a look at the effects of the June 2021 Core Update.

We’re coming at you live with all the latest Google Marketing Live News! Performance Max campaigns are expanding to more advertisers, image extensions are out of beta, and much more. Google announces the creatively named June 2021 Core Update (and the July 2021 Core Update, too). Plus, Microsoft introduces a unified campaign management hub that includes Google and social platforms.

Snap gets it crackling and popping with announcements at their second partner summit, including some not so fashionable AR Goggles and new public profiles for businesses. LinkedIn debuts the new Event Ad type and Event Analytics tool to go with it. Plus, Google quietly revealed new monthly spend limits.

On Marketing O'Talk, we're joined by PPC experts Pamela Lund, Kirk Williams, and Cole Soldwisch to talk about Google's Smart Shopping campaigns. Learn how to structure smart shopping within your account, how to optimize campaigns, reporting hacks, and more!

I/Only hope you’re ready for all of this I/O news. Google announces a huge expansion of their partnership with Shopify, as well as some new Google Photos integrations with Lens. Google also announces their new breakthrough Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) to our mixed opinions. Plus, Pinterest debuts Idea Pins, a versatile take on the Story Pins launched last year.

This week, Twitter (kinda) drops the infamous mobile crop. Yelp announces custom location-based targeting for businesses along with some other goodies. We also dive all the way into the new Youtube Shorts creation tools and make big plans to make big money with the Youtube Shorts $100M creator fund. 

Twitter adds a new ticketing feature and the ability to schedule a Space in its new audio rollout. We’ve got you covered on the latest Microsoft Ads update as it debuts even more new features including updates to phrase match and new ad formats. Plus, TikTok tries its hand at a new lead generation ad format.

Apple’s iOS 14.5 is APPealing to privacy advocates and APPalling to some digital advertisers. We’re here to tell you everything you need to know about the update. Plus, Spotify has a new podcast subscription service that makes Apple look like Scrooge McDuck and Google seemingly has a local car inventory search in development.

This week we're breaking down all of the new features coming to Microsoft Advertising and a new Facebook feature that sounds familiar. Plus, Google is making advertisers' lives a lot easier with dynamic placement exclusions and a lot harder with "simpler" bid strategy organization.

John Lee from Microsoft Advertising announces exciting new features coming to the Microsoft Audience Network including video ads, Facebook campaign import, and more! We are joined by John and agency experts to break down what you need to know and opportunities for Microsoft Advertising.