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Two ad platforms can rewrite your ads by Friday, Walmart gives AI shoppers their own door, and Gemini starts suggesting the places your customers saved. Five stories, what they mean for your business, and what to do this week.
Google says review appeals are backed up, and it cannot give a timeframe. A bad or fake review may sit on your profile for weeks, and your reply is what customers read in the meantime. Google is also testing star ratings that scroll inside its ads.
Google Business Home, a closed beta in the US and UK, puts your Business Profile, Ads, Merchant Center and YouTube in one place with AI suggestions on top. Two more profile changes are only tests. Here is what is real, and how to treat the advice it gives you.
With permission, Google's Gemini app can now use a person's Maps searches and saved places, alongside their calendar, to suggest where to go today. Being saved is turning into a marketing goal.
Walmart announced profiles, spending limits and house rules for the AI assistants that shop for its customers, plus a dedicated way in for them. The biggest retailer is planning for the assistant. Your business needs the small version.
OpenAI turns on AI rewrites for ChatGPT ads by default, Meta's new terms make you responsible for what its AI changes, and Google is pulling your videos into Performance Max. Here is what to switch, and what to read, before Friday.
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