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Google Ad Grants now lets nonprofits optimize for shop visits

You can now tie ad spend to foot traffic, aligning bids with in-person visits across Maps and local search placements.
Merchant Center becomes a central video hub as Google auto-imports content

Google’s move to auto-populate video assets in GMC allows video to be a built-in, commerce-ready component of retail ad strategy.
What We’re Building with Starter Story
We have some big news: HubSpot Media is acquiring Starter Story, one of the most trusted and beloved media brands in the entrepreneurship space.
Google Ads support now requires account change authorization

Advertisers contacting Google Ads must now authorize support-led account changes — while keeping full responsibility for results.
What it takes to make demand gen work for B2B and ecommerce

From scroll-stopping creative to smarter budgets, learn why search tactics fail and what actually drives MQLs, SQLs and sales.
Profound vs Scrunch AI for AEO: Which tool delivers better ROI?
As businesses adjust to the new AEO landscape, marketers are seeing increasing convergence with marketing automation—HubSpot’s recent acquisition of Xfunnel signals this shift, bringing AI search optimization directly into the CRM ecosystem where attribution and revenue tracking happen.
AI Mode: Features & Ranking — Whiteboard Friday
Analyze early data from Google’s AI Mode in STAT. This study of 40,000 keywords reveals a mere 12% overlap with traditional organic rankings and explores how the verbose, text-heavy nature of AI Mode is shifting the search landscape.
ChatGPT ads spotted and they are quite aggressive

ChatGPT ads are spotted by U.S. users — and they’re appearing on the very first prompt, not after lengthy conversations as some predicted.
Reddit tests AI shopping carousels in search results

Reddit is turning its trusted community recommendations into shoppable product carousels, directly in search results.
8 generative engine optimization best practices your strategy needs
Despite what the headlines would have you believe, artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new. The term and early technology date back to the 1950s, but generative AI (which emerged in the 2010s) is undeniably new terrain.

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