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Albertsons Can't See Its Own ChatGPT Ad Data. They're Still Spending.

Albertsons is spending at least $200,000 on a platform where they cannot see their own campaign data. That fact, by itself, probably would not be worth writing about. Brands blow experimental budgets all the time. But Albertsons is not some startup throwing money at the latest shiny object. This

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Meta Wants You to Describe Your Audience in Plain English. That Is Not a Convenience Feature.

Meta rolled out a text box. That's the most reductive way to describe what happened. Inside Advantage+ targeting, there's now a tab called "Describe Your Audience" where you type a plain-English description of who you want to reach. Up to 2,000 characters. Meta&

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CTV Ad Fraud in 2026: A Media Buyer's Audit Guide

Connected TV advertising is forecast to hit roughly $38 billion in US spend this year. That makes it the fastest-growing video channel by a comfortable margin. It also makes it the most attractive target for fraud operators since early programmatic display. Here's what I find genuinely unsettling: depending

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Your B2B Ad Algorithm Thinks Sales Team Vacations Are Targeting Problems

If you run B2B paid media with sales cycles longer than 30 days, there is a good chance your ad algorithm is solving the wrong problem. Not because the platform is broken. Because you are feeding it data that makes it confused about what "good" looks like. A

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A Google Ads Editor Bug Is Silently Rewriting Your Extensions Across Accounts

If you manage Google Ads campaigns across multiple languages or markets, there's a decent chance some of your structured snippets are showing in the wrong language right now. And you probably don't know it. A confirmed bug in Google Ads Editor is silently linking structured snippet

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Google Is Putting Loyalty Programs in AI Shopping Results. If You Have One, This Is Urgent.

Google expanded its loyalty program ad features to 14 countries this week, which most outlets are covering as a geographic expansion story. It isn't. The real news is that loyalty benefits now appear in AI Mode, the conversational shopping surface that already has 75 million daily active users.