April 9, 2025

Mihai-Adrian Ciurea discovered that Demand Gen nog has a new goal = YouTube engagements!

Thomas Eccel spotted that Google now shows a missing consent mode before you publish a campaign

Felix Mayo just saw this new AI assistant in the Google Ads help docs!

Zeeshan Ali discovered that Google Ads has divided the search settings into different categories.

Arpan Banerjee & Dario Zannoni discovered there’s a new option under General Account Settings in Google Merchant Center that lets Google use your existing marketing content (like newsletters, social posts, and promos) to enhance visibility across Google services such as Search, Shopping, and Maps. When enabled, Google may extract: – Social media links and content

Sachin Patel & Barry Schwartz discovered that Google is testing a show more button for Shopping Ads!

Google has released a new Looker Studio dashboard that brings together data from Search Console and Google Analytics. With this dashboard, you can: Track how users find your site (search impressions, clicks, queries) Analyze what they do on-site (pageviews, on-page clicks, conversions) Visualize both data sources in one unified view The update includes guidance on:

Google Introduced pMaximizer, an open-source dashboard built on Google Cloud to help optimize Performance Max campaigns. It provides insights into asset, product, and campaign performance, and highlights areas where best practices are not followed. More details and access on GitHub.

Anthony Higman discovered that YouTube is testing a new feature where certain ads in the YouTube Discovery feed expand to show “Watch” and “Visit Site” buttons. These buttons appear when users either interact with product images below the ad or watch the video preview for 3–5 seconds.