Google announces its own version of App Tracking Transparency

In an email sent to Android app developers on Wednesday, Google announced that it will enable users to opt out of sharing their Advertiser ID (the unique device identifier that enables marketers to track users as they move between apps), the Financial Times reported Thursday. The announcement comes less than six weeks after Apple rolled…

Google Search Console regex filter adds negative matching option

In April, Google added regular expression filtering support to some of the Search Console reports. The issue was, it only let you filter on positive matches, not exclude negative matches. Today, Google announced you can now perform negative matches using regular expressions (regex) in the performance report in Google Search Console. The announcement. Google said…

Google publishes Google News transparency policy for publishers

Google has published more details on its transparency policies around Google News for publishers. This has come a few months after Google quietly published new manual actions for Google News and Google Discover content policies. Google said it “considers what types of information an ordinary person might find helpful if they want to assess a…

How and why you should pause paid search (for science)

I won’t stand on this soapbox for long, but while I’m here, I want to take a second to advocate for something counterintuitive coming from someone with the title of Sr. Analyst, Paid Search: you should pause paid search.  Not outright. Not all at once. But with the right structure and parameters, pausing paid search…

Facebook Import is now available in Microsoft Advertising

Microsoft Advertising is now rolling out Facebook Import, enabling advertisers to carry over their campaigns, ad groups, budgets, creative assets and more from Facebook into the Microsoft Audience Network, the company announced Friday. Why we care Facebook Import allows advertisers to extend their campaigns to Bing and the Microsoft Audience Network without spending extra time…