Google Ads drops language targeting in September, nine months past deadline
Performance Max is now in scope, reversing Google's 2025 line that non-Search campaign types would stay untouched. Which account structures survive September?
What the quarterly review expects you to already know
Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Today's grid leans hard on commerce vocabulary, and one group is far harder to place than its plain wording suggests.
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