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Performance Max AI Updates: 6 Changes Every Google Ads Marketer Should Audit

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Open the settings of an older Performance Max campaign, and you may find AI switched on in places you never chose. Google's own documentation says final URL expansion is on by default, and several image and video enhancements are too. Many teams never open those panels again after launch. That's why these Performance Max AI updates deserve a proper audit, not a quick skim. Here are the six changes that matter, what Google's documentation actually says about each one, and what I'd check before scaling spend. Why Do Performance Max AI Updates Matter? Performance Max now builds more creative automatically from your landing page , domain, images, videos and existing ads. Because several of these features are on by default, your live ads may already contain text, images or video you never wrote. That makes a review essential rather than optional. Why should you audit Performance Max before scaling spend? Generated Performance Max assets can drift from your brand, and fina...

Performance Max AI Updates: 6 Changes Every Google Ads Marketer Should Audit

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Open the settings of an older Performance Max campaign, and you may find AI switched on in places you never chose. Google's own documentation says final URL expansion is on by default, and several image and video enhancements are too. Many teams never open those panels again after launch. That's why these Performance Max AI updates deserve a proper audit, not a quick skim. Here are the six changes that matter, what Google's documentation actually says about each one, and what I'd check before scaling spend. Why Do Performance Max AI Updates Matter? Performance Max now builds more creative automatically from your landing page , domain, images, videos and existing ads. Because several of these features are on by default, your live ads may already contain text, images or video you never wrote. That makes a review essential rather than optional. Why should you audit Performance Max before scaling spend? Generated Performance Max assets can drift from your brand, and fina...

Top AI Marketing Trends for 2027: 6 Shifts to Plan For Now

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In September 2026, Google began automatically moving old Dynamic Search Ads campaigns into AI Max, and advertisers can no longer create new ones. Plenty of search accounts woke up running on a very different engine. That's the mood heading into next year. These are the AI marketing trends I think matter most, and they come from my own research notes rather than a recycled listicle. I checked the numbers against primary sources where I could, so you can plan around them. What are the 6 AI marketing trends shaping 2027? 1. Agentic AI and Autonomous Workflows Take Over the Busywork Not long ago, AI in marketing meant a chatbot waiting for your prompt. Now agents watch campaigns, tweak them, write ad copy, build creative variations, pull reports and chase down targeting problems with far less hand-holding. That's what agentic AI in marketing really means: software that acts, not just answers. In 2027, agents will increasingly handle: Campaign monitoring and optimisation Automated...

AI Video Ad Creative: How Brands Are Producing at a Pace That Used to Be Impossible

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A year or two ago, a thirty-second brand video meant a shoot day, a rough cut, three rounds of revisions, and a bill that made finance wince. Now a creative lead can generate a finished spot, with synced sound, before lunch. That gap between what video production used to cost in time and money, and what it costs now, is the whole story behind AI video ad creative . This isn't about replacing a director's eye. It's about what happens once a strong concept exists, and a brand needs it in 40 formats, 6 languages, and a dozen aspect ratios by Friday. What AI Video Ad Creative Actually Means AI video ad creative refers to tools that generate finished video content, complete with synchronised audio, directly from a script, image, or voice input, rather than requiring a traditional shoot-and-edit pipeline . The newer systems handle picture and sound together in a single pass, which matters more than it sounds; it removes the separate step of syncing a voiceover or soundtrack to ...