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X (Twitter) tells advertisers that promoted accounts are over

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X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has started depreciating promoted accounts. Moving forward, advertisers will no longer be able to promote their brands in timelines using the ad format, which makes more than $100 million in global revenue for the platform Why we care. What are promoted accounts? What has X said?

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Why paid search marketers need a growth mindset

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Do you ever feel like the world of paid search evolves faster than you can keep up? With constant updates and the push to accept AI and automation, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and discouraged as a paid search marketer. Advertisers need professionals to be growth-minded as well. But you aren’t alone.

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Amazon apologizes after its AI advertising system makes costly error

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Amazon apologized to advertisers after its automated advertising system charged them to promote products they couldn’t sell. He noticed that his sales dropped at the same time as the advertising problem. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. First spotted. Amazon’s response.

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How out-of-order ad promotion works on Google Search

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This practice is known as out-of-order ad promotion. This little nuance to how the ad auction works can be confusing, so in this article, I’ll explain how out-of-order promotion works and why Google does it. This improves the search experience. Out-of-order promotion also allows Google to enforce its relevance standards.

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Best of the Bot: Create 10 promotional campaigns to drive in-store purchases

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The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with Search Engine Land content. Here’s something somebody asked me! Prompt: These are great, especially #2, #3, #5.

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80% of influencers fail to disclose advertising content, putting brands at risk

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If an influencer doesn’t clearly say that a post is an advertisement, they’re not just violating advertising guidelines, but both the influencer and the brand they’re promoting could be breaking the law. Out of the influencers surveyed, 40% promoted their own products, services, or brands. Why we care.

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Meta advertisers can avoid 30% Apple service charge for boosted posts

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Starting later this month, advertisers will be able to use Facebook and Instagram directly on desktop and mobile to access all the features available in the iOS apps for boosting content without paying Apple. This is a feature that allows business to quickly promote a piece of content without needing to set up a full campaign in Ads Manager.