Google Ads News

August 2025

171 updates from August 2025, newest first.

Monday

11 August 2025
PMax

Is Performance Max Cannibalizing Search?

A study of 500+ accounts shows that Performance Max often serves ads for exact-match search terms, even when Search campaigns contain those keywords. This overlap happened in 91.5% of accounts,…

GA4 & GTM

Your Shopify tracking breaks on August 28

If you're still using Additional Scripts or checkout.liquid, your Google Ads, Meta, GA4, and GTM tracking will stop working. Shopify is killing legacy scripts. You need to switch to Custom…

Shopping

Specific Audiences only in Google Merchant Center

Since when can you show Google Merchant Center promotions to specific audiences only? You can now. GMC promotions those special offer banners like “10% off” or “Free shipping” have traditionally…

ChatGPT Ads

Human clicks vs ChatGPT Citations

New analysis reveals that AI tools like ChatGPT treat Google results in a manner that differs significantly from that of humans. While people click on the first result 27.6% of…

Sunday

10 August 2025

New CTR Study

Backlinko published a new CTR study based on 4 million Google search results. The data is a must-read for anyone working in SEO or PPC. Key insights: CTR by position.…

Demand Gen & YouTube

New asset optimisation

Starting 4 September 2025, Google Ads will automatically apply a new asset optimisation to all Demand Gen single-image ads. This feature generates adaptive layouts using your existing images and headlines…

Perplexity steals content?

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of “Stealth Crawling” Blocked Websites. Cloudflare has published a detailed report alleging that Perplexity an AI-powered search startup, has been bypassing robots.txt and firewall restrictions by disguising…

PMax

Update Brand Guidelines

Hana Kobzová discovered that Google is asking advertisers to update brand guidelines in Pmax!

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