Google brings Gemini Omni video creation to Google Ads

Google is adding Gemini Omni to Asset Studio, making it easier to turn creative briefs and brand assets into campaign-ready videos.

Google is adding Gemini Omni to Asset Studio, making it easier to turn creative briefs and brand assets into campaign-ready videos.

Google is expanding LSA direct booking to more than 500 partners, making it easier for customers to book straight from ads.
Google has brought its developing-topic link carousels to AI Mode, putting timely article links and Preferred Sources prominently inside AI responses.
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Google will start charging Local Services Ads advertisers for some missed and follow-up calls that qualify as valid leads from Oct. 1.

SEO roadmaps should tie business goals to ownership, capacity, impact, and measurement. Otherwise, you’ve built a backlog.
AI can flatten decades of localized expertise into one generic brand impression, meaning global brands must translate credentials into evidence machines actually recognize.
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Specific primary and additional categories, plus complete profiles, correlate with stronger local rankings. See what the data reveals.

Cheap clicks can look efficient while producing weaker results. Learn how to connect paid media to sales, revenue, and profit.
An owned promo code page can keep purchase-ready shoppers away from coupon affiliates and recover revenue leaking from ecommerce checkout flows.
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Your platform claims the sale, your backend gives credit elsewhere, and neither can tell you if the ad caused it. Incrementality does.