Filtered to Perfection: Google Gets On-Brand

Google Finishes December Core Update & More Digital Marketing News | EP. 414This 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 sit ...  Show more

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How a TikTok ban will affect YOUR ad campaigns and social media reach. New incentives for agencies to use Google ads because, well, the math wasn't mathing. Why is Google adding outbound links to YOUR WEB SITE'S CONTENT?! And if you don't know what the Castlecore a ...

Here is your wrap-up of the last week in the digital marketing space.

This week: Shares are the new likes, Meta admits engagement is slipping, Google backpedals on cookies, Threads ads get the side-eye, AI is eating your clicks, and on X... drag Elon, lose reach.

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<span>They don’t want to, but they might have to — how Meta’s proposal for handling personalized ads might cripple their ad business. Microsoft’s version of Performance Max is out in the wild. Will YouTube summarize your brand’s videos accurately?</span>

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A surprising drop for Instagram — less posting, fewer ad dollars. Why Meta’s loss turns out to be Meta’s gain. TikTok wants its users to flip out, as it launches a new post format. The surprising underdog now winning the influencer marketing race. And we now know why a big chu ...