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On this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock, hosts Jess Budde, Greg Finn, and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld deliver al the digital marketing news you may have missed on this heavy news week!
Google Shopping adds organic listings
Retailers will no longer have to pay to run Google Shopping campaigns to have their products featured in the Google Shopping results.
Mandatory identity verification for all Google advertisers
Google Ads will require documentation of user identity and geographic location for advertisers.
Facebook does away with campaign-level budget mandate
If you lamented the loss of ad set budgets, we have great news for you. CBO, or Campaign Budget Optimization, will not be mandatory.
More details about Google Ads SMB credits
In reality, they gave us more words, not more information. The credits will start rolling out in May and we still don’t know how much they will be worth or who is eligible.
Google tests sidebar in desktop search
For certain queries, Google searchers have spotted a convenient sidebar with a list of subtopics.
This week’s spicy take of the week comes from Adam Singer, who isn’t worried about marketers being replaced with machine learning any time soon.
They wish. Goog has tried to remove humans from the equation for 2 decades & still hasn’t succeeded. If automated suggestions can beat your ad ops team, you need a new one. Citation: have worked at Google for almost a decade and run FB ads equally as long. This is false. https://t.co/Xi77WInPVm
— Adam Singer (@AdamSinger) April 19, 2020
Then we answer your digital marketing questions during our lightning round segment:
- Who is the latest retailer to launch their own ad network?
- What is TikTok doing to protect minors who use the app?
- When can SMBs expect to receive their Google Ads credit?
- Where is the new place you can watch Instagram live streams?
- Why did Facebook have to remove one of its audience targeting options this week?
- How can you quickly add COVID-19 related announcements to your website?
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