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Google Ads Cut Granular Data to 37 Months (17 Months After Promising 11 Years)

Google Ads will cut granular reporting retention from 11 years to 37 months on June 1, 2026, roughly 17 months after announcing the longer window. Daily, hourly, and weekly data older than 37 months will be unreachable through the Google Ads API and scripts; queries that ignore the cap return

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Microsoft Ads Tied PMax Conversions to Each Publisher URL Google Still Hides

Microsoft Advertising added conversion and spend metrics to its Performance Max Website Publisher URL report in late April 2026, exposing spend tied to specific publisher domains for the first time. Google Performance Max only added Search Partner placement visibility in February 2026, and its channel-level data remains read-only. The practical

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Google Ads API v20 Sunsets June 10 and Your Bid Manager Probably Hasn't Migrated

Google Ads API v20 sunsets on June 10, 2026, after which every request hitting that version returns a hard failure. That gives agencies roughly 40 days to identify which third-party bid managers, ad servers, attribution platforms, and reporting scripts still call v20, and to confirm vendor migrations to v21 or

Google Ads Budget Allocation: A Spreadsheet You Can Steal (and the 70/20/10 Reason It Works)

Google Ads budget allocation in 2026 looks roughly like 70% to Performance Max, 20% to brand search, 10% to standard testing campaigns, with a daily cap set at 10x to 20x target CPA. The reason that split holds is not the percentages. It is that PMax controls the channel mix

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Google Ads Budget Allocation: The 70/20/10 Spreadsheet That Survives PMax

Most Google Ads accounts split budget by campaign type instead of by what's actually working. The popular 70/20/10 framework (70% to proven performers, 20% to optimization, 10% to experiments) only holds up if the proven 70% isn't being cannibalized by Performance Max winning auctions

Keller Postman's $218B Google Ads Arbitration Hinges on Your Billing Exports

Chicago law firm Keller Postman has begun pooling Google advertiser claims in mass arbitration tied to two federal antitrust rulings that found Google illegally monopolized search and open-web ad tech. Partner Ashley Keller's team pegs the total available pot at roughly $218 billion to $250 billion across search

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Google Ads API Will Inflate PMax Numbers on June 15 and Refuse to Backfill

On June 15, 2026, Google's Ads API will start returning cost and conversion data for Video, Demand Gen, and App campaigns through the shopping_product resource, expand the shopping_performance_view to every campaign type that uses Merchant Center, and return all networks for Performance Max instead of