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Welcome to PPC Pulse: this week’s updates focus on creative controls and video delivery across Google Ads. Google expanded beta access to text guidelines in AI Max, allowing advertisers to set guardrails for AI-generated ad copy across Search and Performance Max campaigns. At the same time, VRC non-skip ads are now generally available globally, expanding […]
There is a pervasive narrative doing the rounds in the publishing industry called “Google Zero.” This narrative, embraced by many industry leaders, poses that traffic from Google – Search and Discover – will decline and eventually become negligible. This Google Zero narrative is entirely false, and extremely dangerous. And I’m going to explain why. When […]
Ranking in Google’s top 10 is a weaker indicator of being cited in AI Overviews than it was last year, according to an updated Ahrefs analysis. The study examined 863,000 keywords and 4 million AI Overview URLs. It found that 38% of cited pages also appeared in the top 10 results for the same query. […]
One in five Shorts that YouTube recommends to new users is low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated video, often described as “AI slop.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used that label himself in his January 2026 annual letter, pledging to build on YouTube’s spam and clickbait-detection systems to combat it. A Kapwing study of 15,000 trending channels identified 278 […]
More U.S. consumers in an Adobe Express survey said they’ve used TikTok for search than in the company’s 2024 survey. But the platform’s position as a Google challenger may be weaker than the headline numbers suggest. An updated report from Adobe Express, published February 17, surveyed 807 consumers and 200 small business owners in the […]
Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said Flash’s low latency and cost are why Google can run Search AI at scale. Retrieval is a design choice, not a limitation, he added. In an interview on the Latent Space podcast, Dean explained why Flash became the production tier for Search. He also laid out why the pipeline […]
When the average customer age increases for a brand, it’s rarely a platform failure. It’s usually a signal that younger audiences are discovering, evaluating, and buying in different places, and older established brands haven’t kept pace. As of 2026, Gen Z spans ages 14 to 29. They’re the first generation raised in a digital online […]
Google’s VP of Ads and Commerce, Vidhya Srinivasan, published her third annual letter to the industry, outlining how the company plans to connect advertising, commerce, and AI across Search, YouTube, and Gemini in 2026. The letter covers agentic commerce, AI-powered ad formats, creator partnerships, and creative tools. Several of the announcements build on features Google […]
Alphabet reported Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion, beating Wall Street estimates and marking the company’s first year above $400 billion in annual revenue. Google Search grew 17% to $63.07 billion. On the earnings call, the company revealed how it plans to monetize AI Mode and shared new data on how AI is changing search […]
Every January, YouTube’s CEO publishes a letter outlining where the platform is headed. In most years, these updates read like a product roadmap. Neal Mohan’s 2026 letter reads more like a strategic manifesto. “YouTube is the epicenter of culture,” Mohan writes, arguing that creators are now “reinventing entertainment and building the media companies of the […]