The Significant 7: Top YouTube Videos, Shorts, And Ads of 2022 via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

The most automated type of Google Ads campaign is getting even more automated. Generative AI is making its way to Performance Max (PMax) campaigns – in the form of both text asset creation and AI image generation. New tools are going to make setup much easier than in the past process. Advertisers using PMax see 18% more conversions on average at a “similar” cost per action, according to Google. How it works. Advertisers can input their website into Google AI, then answer a handful of questions. […]

The 2021 Grammy Awards saw twenty-nine current and former CD Baby artists nominated across almost as many categories. In the virtual ceremony held on March 14, three of those artists claimed the big prize! Join us in celebrating these Grammy winners distributed by CD Baby: Jim “Kimo’ West: More Guitar Stories (Best New Age) Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Four Questions (Best Latin Jazz Album) Joanie Leeds: All The Ladies (Best Children’s Music Album)   Congrats to these three amazing artists! They found success on their own terms, […]

As you know, last week, on April 26th, Google disabled the URL parameter tool within Google Search Console and stopped respecting any of the rules added to that tool. Some are asking if the recent crawl spikes they saw with Googlebot was related to this change.