Google Ads Text Guidelines Are Now Universal & More Digital Marketing News | Ep. 422

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google Ads announced that it’s expanding its beta to make text guidelines universal. Also, as ChatGPT’s ad rollout continues, trigger patterns are emerging and highlighting what is really bringing in commercial intent.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

Text guidelines are now global - 5:05

Some more info into ChatGPT ads - 6:54

🛠️ Cool Tool - 8:39

🔥 Take of the Week - 9:53

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 11:59

Organic - 22:39

Social - 32:20

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 36:36

🔎 ICYMI - 38:43

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 39:24

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google updates budget pacing for campaigns using ad scheduling, starting March 1st. Also, ChatGPT ads officially make their debut, appearing immediately after high-intent prompts for signed-in U.S. users.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main NewsGoogle Ads Updates Budget Pacing For Ad Scheduling - 3:30

What Ads in ChatGPT look like - 9:34

🛠️ Cool Tool - 12:06

🔥 Take of the Week - 13:20

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 15:03

Organic - 21:36

Social -31:32

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 38:15

🔎 ICYMI - 40:39

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 42:16

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This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google continues to expand ads in AI mode. Also, OpenAI suggests advertisers could generate entire campaigns through “prompts”.

Plus, Bing launches a new AI Performance report in Webmaster Tools.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

New Ad Type for AI Mode?(Worst press release in the history of Google) - 6:57

OpenAI Wants Advertisers To Prompt To Create Ads & Skip Agencies - 12:19

We FINALLY have AI Data - 18:11

🛠️ Cool Tool - 19:45

🔥 Take of the Week - 20:33

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 23:24

Organic - 29:58

Social - 37:28

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 41:24

🔎 ICYMI - 42:43

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week -44:28

An interview with Adam from inspired taste - 46:12

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google reports its biggest revenue & ad revenue to date. Also, the February Google Discover Core Update is Rolling out. Plus, Google is now offering Network Segmentation via API for PMax.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

Google’s Q4 earrings are in - 5:50

Google has released its first core update of 2026 - 11:15

🛠️ Cool Tool - 15:44

🔥 Take of the Week - 16:42

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 18:14

Organic - 29:51

Social - 38:20

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 43:21

🔎 ICYMI - 46:09

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 47:13

An Interview with Menachem Ani - 52:05

Google AI Overviews are Shifting Users to AI Mode & More Digital Marketing News | Ep. 418

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google’s AI Overviews begin pulling users out of traditional search and into AI Mode, raising major concerns for publishers.

Plus, OpenAI reportedly has rolled out $60 CPM ChatGPT ads with limited tracking, and Google launches a unified Experiment Center for cross-campaign testing.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

A change coming to AI overviews - 3:14

More ChatGPT Ads News - 5:13

Campaign mix experiments are coming to google ads in a new Experiment Center - 7:39

🛠️ Cool Tool - 8:29

🔥 Take of the Week - 9:10

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 9:57

Organic - 18:58

Social - 28:30

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 31:49

🔎 ICYMI - 33:22

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 34:45

OpenAI Reveals Pay-Per-View Ads in ChatGPT & More Digital Marketing News | EP. 417

This week on Marketing O’Clock: OpenAI reveals pay-per-view ad model for ChatGPT, while Google confirms Gemini still has no plans for ads.

Plus, ChatGPT checkouts will take a 4% cut of Shopify sales, and Performance Max rolls out new Data Exclusions for audience and remarketing control.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

ChatGPT to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers - 5:00

Chat GPT checkouts - 10:04

New Data (Audience) Exclusions - 12:48

🛠️ Cool Tool - 14:03

🔥 Take of the Week - 14:49

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 16:43

Organic - 27:25

Social - 42:36

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 45:06

🔎 ICYMI - 46:41

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 47:44

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Campaign total budgets are rolling out globally for Search, PMax, and Shopping. Also, Google introduces the Universal Commerce Protocol and Direct Offers in AI Mode. Plus, Gemini launches Personal Intelligence.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

Campaign total budgets are now in open beta for Search, PMax, and Shopping globally - 6:23

Google AI Mode Direct Offers Ads & Universal Commerce Protocol - 8:09

Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence - 11:34

🛠️ Cool Tool - 16:02

🔥 Take of the Week - 16:48

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 19:21

Organic - 29:00

Social - 35:38

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 38:57

🔎 ICYMI - 42:48

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 44:29

An Interview with Mordy Oberstein - 46:56

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Performance Max introduces new asset-level A/B testing experiments, Gmail rolls out major updates with Gemini integration, and more digital marketing news.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Intro - 00:00

📰 Main News

PMAX Optimization Experiments A/B Testing - 5:50

Gmail is in its Gemini era! - 9:10

🛠️ Cool Tool - 12:23

🔥 Take of the Week - 14:10

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 23:24

Organic - 32:38

Social - 44:37

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 47:10

🔎 ICYMI - 48:58

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week (an interview with Glenn Gabe) - 50:19

Google Finishes December Core Update & More Digital Marketing News | EP. 414

This week on Marketing O’Clock: Map placements surface in Demand Gen, Google completes the December 2025 Core Update rollout, and fresh analysis highlights how poor UX, aggressive ads, and frustrating site experiences can tank performance.

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Intro - 00:00

📰 Main NewsNew Maps in Demand Gen - 3:53

The DEC Core update has finished rolling out - 4:19

🛠️ Cool Tool - 7:19

🔥 Take of the Week - 8:01

⚡ Lightning Round ⚡

Paid - 9:17

Organic - 17:05

Social - 26:54

⚙️ Working hard, or Hardly Working - 29:06

🔎 ICYMI - 31:29

🧠 Must Read Marketing Article of the Week - 32:16

🎉 Shootin' The Heck - 55:15

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