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A practical guide to the diagnostics we run when we audit a Google Ads account - and the structural fixes that turn intent waste into the channel's biggest source of leverage.
Read the full pieceGoogle is retiring Dynamic Search Ads and folding the job into AI Max for Search. Here is what is genuinely different, which controls to keep your hands on, and how to prepare before the auto-upgrades start.
Google has opened AI Overviews and AI Mode to ads across Performance Max, Shopping, broad match and AI Max. You don't opt in separately - so the question is what it changes for spend, creative and how you measure.
Meta's Andromeda retrieval engine decides which of your creatives to show to whom. That's made creative volume and genuine diversity the main lever on paid social - not audience micro-slicing.
On 15 June 2026, Google removed Google Signals as a control over how GA4 shares data with Google Ads. A single Consent Mode parameter now governs it - and if your banner isn't setting it correctly, conversions can quietly disappear.
More buyers now ask AI instead of searching. Generative Engine Optimization is about being the answer AI cites, not the link it ranks - and it's already diverging hard from classic SEO.
When server-side tracking is worth the work - and when it's a project for the sake of a project.
PMax is neither the silver bullet Google wants you to believe nor the disaster early critics claimed. Here's how we actually run it.
Most "agency to in-house" transitions go badly. Here's the playbook we use to actually transfer capability without losing performance.