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Daily Minute Master Series
August 27, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Meta settles landmark lawsuit for $18B

Meta has agreed to pay more than $18 billion to stop what could have been an increasingly damaging trial over social media harms, while the company has also agreed to implement new restrictions on teen social media use, in order to settle the case brought by 29 U.S. attorneys general, the trial for which began in California last week.

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Meta adds new AI subscription packages

Meta announced two new subscription tiers for its artificial intelligence tools as the company looks to build a viable path to monetizing its increasingly expensive AI developments.

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How To Advertise In Google AI Mode For Ecommerce

The most important thing to know about advertising in Google AI Mode is that you do not write the ads, and the product data that does the work is usually not owned by your paid media team. Shoppers are moving their product research into AI Mode; most of them never click through to a site, and Google builds the ads inside that experience from your Merchant Center feed. Google has said AI Mode passed a billion monthly users this year, so this is where a growing share of buying decisions now start. At Marketing Live in May, Google gave advertisers the formats to appear inside it, and getting into them turns out to be less about bidding than about whether your feed is ready.

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Judge Says Google/Publisher AI Situation “Seems Really Unfair”

Judge who ruled that Google is a monopoly observed in the Penske vs Google hearing that the AI Overviews situation “seems really unfair.”

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AI Tools Recommend Brands But Cite Other Sites, Data Shows

AI tools often suggest brands without directly linking to their official websites. Shero Commerce’s recent analysis found that only 2.8% of the 1,851 sources cited across Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity were brand-owned pages.

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Why Running YouTube Ads Like Search Will Burn Your Budget

The case for adding YouTube to a Google Ads account is always built on scale. Billions of logged-in users, session-based reach that’s much larger than linear TV, and formats built for storytelling that Search can’t touch. However, none of the promise of YouTube matters if the ad account underneath it is not built to capture the demand it creates. YouTube can generate attention, interest, and intent, but none of that converts if the business is not structurally prepared for YouTube.

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