Google Ads has released an update it the Google Ads API, version 17.1. Version 17.1 includes shareable ad previews, removing specified automatically created assets linked to Responsive Search Ads, retrieving offline conversion diagnostics, offline diagnostics report metrics, standard bidding strategies …

Google is testing sending the searcher to the short videos tab after clicking on the more videos button, instead of dynamically loading videos underneath the videos you are currently looking at in the search results.…

Google will begin showing photos in your Local Service Ads that come from your Local Service Ads profile. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, wrote on X yesterday, “Starting today, we’ll begin selecting photos from your LSA profile to show in …

Google notified some advertisers last night that they are expected to receive $16 million dollars and $6 million dollars in credits. I am sure others got similar astronomical credit notices. Don’t retire anytime soon, it is a bug, and Google …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google is testing yet another call extension ad format, this one shows the advertiser’s name below the clickable phone number. This gives a lot more visibility to the phone number and the CTA for the call extension.…

Google Business Profiles performance report is no longer showing the “call” tab that shows you statistics and data on searchers who called you from Google Search and Google Maps. I suspect this might be related to the Google Business Profile …

As part of the DOJ ruling that Google is a monopoly, the document noted that Apple has its own search index and the index size is of billions of websites. The specific number was redacted but it said, “Apple maintains …

Google Ads may be testing a new search ad format named “featured options.” This shows ad listings in this thing card layouts that should be related to events.…