Editorial
Research and analysis from the team behind the Upp.ai platform, covering paid media, measurement and AI execution.
Two Search features move into AI Max automatically between 1 and 30 September. What changes, which defaults switch on, and the checklist to run before the window opens.
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53% of PPC professionals say the job is harder than it was two years ago. The reason is not a skills gap: purchase intent now forms across more surfaces than any team can watch.
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In two years, answer engine optimisation (AEO) and generative engine optimisation (GEO) have gone from SEO jargon to the fastest-rising discipline in search. The demand your campaigns bid on is increasingly read, and answered, by a model first. Here is what the answer layer means for paid media, and for the money behind it.
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From 17 August, budget-limited campaigns on Target CPA and Target ROAS will deliver the number you typed, not the number you got used to. More configuration work has just landed on every media team. The winners will treat it as strategy.
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Global ad spend crossed $1 trillion in 2025. The 1,306 professionals behind the industry's largest survey say the work has never been harder to control, or to prove. Here is what the data actually says, and what the strongest teams are doing about it.
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