A recent Linkedin post by Jim Yu flagged that BrightEdge’s AI Catalyst team analyzed citation and brand mention patterns from prompts across Finance, Healthcare, Education, and B2B Tech in five AI search engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overviews. The finding that mattered most was buried in the data. Despite wildly […]
Performance Max For Ecommerce In 2026: Why The Hybrid Strategy Is Better
Performance Max was created to be the set-it-and-forget-it automation play Google dreamed up. But, five years in, the only way PMax works is when you actively guide it, and it literally drains budget when you treat it like a self-managing campaign. The hybrid strategy, running Performance Max alongside Standard Shopping rather than replacing it, is […]