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This week on Marketing O'Clock, we celebrate our 200th episode! Rest in peace to Google My Business, as it will now be called Google Business Profile and is becoming a whole lot more difficult to manage. Facebook announces the removal of detailed targeting options deemed sensitive. Twitter Blue is now available in the US, but Greg wishes he could unsubscribe. All this and much more! 

This week on Marketing O' Clock, our friend Performance Max is finally out of beta, just in time for FACEBOOK's rebrand to Meta! Plus, we try to wrap our heads around Google Ads' new conversion goals and share insider info on how a Minor Google Ads policy change is majorly backfiring in the EU.

This week on Marketing O'Clock, the team discusses all the legal drama surrounding Google and Facebook. We break down the allegations that surfaced from the massive Facebook document release and unredacted filings from a lawsuit against Google. Plus, Facebook wants you to know they really care about small businesses, so we also cover the new features announced this week. All this and much more!

This week on Marketing O'Clock, the team discusses Google rolling out continuous (not infinite) scroll. Facebook announces that they are hiring 10,000 in the EU to help build the metaverse, and we also help Mark Zuckerberg come up with some new names for the Facebook rebrand. Plus, Twitter is testing a new in-conversation ad format. All that and much more!

This week on Marketing O’Clock, Microsoft announces that it is following in Google’s footsteps and is depreciating ETAs, making RSA’s the only ad type. Google announces that it will be moving to a first-price auction model, and also unveils the new Analytics 360. Plus, the team breaks down Rand Fishkin’s latest article: What if Performance Advertising is Just an Analytics Scam?

On this week's show, the team has BIG news at the top, then Shep, Jess, Mark and Greg cover a new Budget Report from Google Ads (and a few fatal flaws within), the 60 Minutes and 7 Hours from the week when Facebook dominated all the news. Lastly the gang covers Facebook's new ad reach estimates and the noticeable range gap included. From there PPCGreg's Twitter spice dominated the ICYMI and the Take of the Week. After a very news-heavy lightning round the team gives mark an audio present to walk out to.

On this week's episode of Marketing O' Clock, Google has the team in a tizzy as they update keyword matching, and offers some really bad blanket advice regarding match types. Google also announced that data-driven attribution will now be default. Plus, Facebook is launching Reels on iOS and Android in the US.

This week on Marketing O’Clock, Google reveals Advertiser Pages as the next part of their efforts to make ads more transparent. Facebook announces updates for businesses, including changes to Click-to-Message Ads and a change that we are personally invested in. Google also rolls out new automobile search features that have the auto industry up in arms.

The Spring and Summer of 2021 were truly unprecedented algorithmic times for Google. So, the Marketing O’Clock team talks to the best and brightest in SEO to discuss the impact across sites, verticals, and the web as a whole.  Our SEO experts are: <a href="https://twitter.com/lilyraynyc?lang=en">Lily Ray</a>: Senior Director of SEO and Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital <a href="https://twitter.com/glenngabe?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Glenn Gabe</a>: SEO consultant at G-squared interactive <a href="https://twitter.com/gregfinn">Greg Finn</a>: Partner at Cypress North and Marketing O’Clock cohost First, Google announced Core Web Vitals and the Page Experience Update. Then, in the months ahead of the rollout, they seemed to drop one update after another. With all these fluctuations, how can SEOs even begin to assess the impact on site performance? We break down all the updates from recent months:April 8: Product Reviews Update June 2: Core Update June 15: Page Experience Update starts rolling out June 23: Spam Update (Part One) June 28: Spam Update (Part Two) July 1: Core Update July 26: Link Spam Update (took until Aug 24 to fully roll out) Sep 2: Page Experience Update finished rolling out (with News changes to finish within the following week.) Plus, our experts tell you what you need to know about the changes in Google’s Web Titles and share advice for surviving and thriving across future core updates.

Show Description: On this week's episode of Marketing O'Clock, a long-lost friend is back as Google now (kinda) showing more data in Search Terms reports. Facebook unveils their Facebook Stories, a smart glasses collaboration with Ray-Ban. Plus, Google also announces that Standard Display and Smart Campaigns into one campaign type.

This week on Marketing O’Clock, Microsoft introduces Video Ads and Optimization Scores in the September product update. Twitter draws ever closer to incorporating shopping, as eCommerce experiments reach next stages. Plus, Microsoft introduces their own news aggregator, with a name that just rolls off the tongue: Microsoft Start.

This week on Marketing O'Clock, the team breaks down Google’s announcement that it will be phasing out ETAs in favor of Responsive Search Ads. LinkedIn announces that it will be getting rid of its stories feature. Plus, Super Follows are finally here on Twitter.

This week on Marketing O’ Clock, Google Ads announces that marketers will soon have the ability to adjust conversion values for smart bidding. Reels are being tested on Facebook in the U.S. Plus, SEOs are up in arms as the Google search title tag chaos continues.

Join us for Marketing O'Talk as our guests discuss the realities of PPC advertising in 2021. PPC experts share how digital marketing demand has changed a year and a half into the pandemic. Plus, strategies to combat bad close variant matching, new features they are loving (and hating), and how to safely test automation in your accounts.Meet our lovely guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/NeptuneMoon">Julie F. Bacchini:</a>  President, Neptune Moon. #PPCChat moderator <a href="https://twitter.com/anna_sorok">Anastasia Sorokina:</a>  Associate Director of SEM, Stella Rising <a href="https://twitter.com/marketingbymark">Mark Saltarelli:</a>  Digital Marketing Manager, Cypress North. Marketing O'Clock cohost.

This week on Marketing O’Clock, LinkedIn announced a new rating and review system for user profiles. The team discusses the brief disappearance of Google Ads search queries in Google Analytics. Plus, YouTube introduces new features to improve the platform search experience.