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Meta's Super Burst Is a One-Shot Ad Buy. Book It for the Exclusivity

Meta launched Ads Super Burst on October 15, 2026, letting advertisers reserve a 3-to-24-hour window on Facebook and Instagram with reach guaranteed within 5% of forecast and frequency fixed at one. Every person sees your ad exactly once. In the US, brands can also lock category exclusivity on tentpole dates,

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Ignore the 96.8% Core Update Forecast, but Fix Your Author Pages by November

Pop art illustration of a salt shaker pouring over a shopping cart full of price tags, next to a red bidding paddle and a falling red arrow for Google Ads Black Friday ROAS

Black Friday Seasonality Adjustments Now Cost More Than They Return

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Google Ads Lets You Cap Search Partners at 0%, But Not YouTube

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GPT-6 Dropped ChatGPT's UTM Tags, and Your AI Traffic Moved to Direct

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Meta Says Its GEM Model Lifted Conversions 18.9%. Compared to What?

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Bing Now Shows Where AI Cites Your Rivals (Strip Their Brand Names First)

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Meta's Super Burst Is a One-Shot Ad Buy. Book It for the Exclusivity

Meta launched Ads Super Burst on October 15, 2026, letting advertisers reserve a 3-to-24-hour window on Facebook and Instagram with reach guaranteed within 5% of forecast and frequency fixed at one. Every person sees your ad exactly once. In the US, brands can also lock category exclusivity on tentpole dates,

Pop art illustration of a salt shaker pouring over a shopping cart full of price tags, next to a red bidding paddle and a falling red arrow for Google Ads Black Friday ROAS

Black Friday Seasonality Adjustments Now Cost More Than They Return

Pop art illustration of a padlocked blue box holding Google owned channels, two budget sliders, one at zero, and a faucet dripping into a small cup for Google Ads budget caps

Google Ads Lets You Cap Search Partners at 0%, But Not YouTube

Pop art illustration of an AI brain wired to Facebook and Instagram phones beside a rising bar chart with no baseline under a magnifying glass, for Meta GEM ads model

Meta Says Its GEM Model Lifted Conversions 18.9%. Compared to What?

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Meta Now Auto-Excludes 2 Years of Buyers From New Customer Ad Sets

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Search Now Gets 41% of Google Ads Clicks (and Still Eats 71% of the Budget)

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Apple Has a Private Blocklist for Ad Tech (and Your Data Vendors Are Next)

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Ignore the 96.8% Core Update Forecast, but Fix Your Author Pages by November

An SEO consultant's prediction model, published by Search Engine Journal on October 15, 2026, gives Google a 96.8% chance of shipping a search update within 30 days. The number mostly reflects base rates: Google hasn't run a broad core update since May, and the model

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Bing Now Shows Where AI Cites Your Rivals (Strip Their Brand Names First)

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Google Now Feeds Rank Trackers Fake SERPs (8% of Them, Nozzle Says)

ChatGPT Cut Reddit Citations 88% and Started Searching Brand Sites Instead

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Google Says Recovery Takes 3 to 6 Months, So Stop Judging SEO Fixes at Week Two

AI Overviews Hit 83% of Brand Searches, and Wikipedia Is Writing Them

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Google Priced Your Content for AI Answers at 0.1% of Ad Revenue

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Pop art illustration of a salt shaker pouring over a shopping cart full of price tags, next to a red bidding paddle and a falling red arrow for Google Ads Black Friday ROAS

Black Friday Seasonality Adjustments Now Cost More Than They Return

Optmyzr compared 5,886 Google Ads accounts over Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2024. Advertisers who used seasonality adjustments saw CPCs rise 34% and ROAS fall 15.7%. Accounts that left Smart Bidding alone saw CPCs rise 17% and ROAS rise 5.7%. The adjusters got only about 6 extra points of

Pop art illustration of a padlocked blue box holding Google owned channels, two budget sliders, one at zero, and a faucet dripping into a small cup for Google Ads budget caps

Google Ads Lets You Cap Search Partners at 0%, But Not YouTube

Pop art pie chart with a small blue Search slice and large orange slices beside a magnifying glass, a price tag and one gold coin next to a pile of cheap coins

Search Now Gets 41% of Google Ads Clicks (and Still Eats 71% of the Budget)

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Google LSAs Now Hide the Phone Number (Right as Missed Calls Got Billable)

Pop-art illustration of a crocodile jaw formed by two diverging chart lines: Shopping ad impressions falling while click-through rate rises under AI Overviews

Google Shopping CTR Rose to 1.55% Because AI Overviews Ate the Bad Queries

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Google Ads Will Now Scrape Discounts Off Your Landing Page and Run Them as Ads

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Google Will Stop Beating Your CPA Targets on August 17 (On Purpose)

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