In this September 2025 episode of The Click Brief Podcast, Jeremy and Emily unpack the latest digital advertising updates shaping Q4 strategies from Google’s new campaign total budgets and AI-driven ad innovations to Amazon’s new AI Ad Creator and Meta’s expanded Reels and Threads formats. They also share insights, reactions, and predictions for how these updates will impact advertisers heading into the holiday season.
Jeremy Packee and Emily Anderson dive into a jam-packed month of digital marketing updates designed to help advertisers fine-tune their Q4 campaigns. The hosts break down Google’s expansion of campaign total budgets to Search, Performance Max, and Shopping campaigns, sharing pros, cons, and Q4 testing advice. They discuss how Microsoft’s Supplemental Feeds bring long-missing flexibility to product updates, while Google’s new Demand Gen Drops showcase fresh features like promotion assets, omnichannel bidding, and comparable conversion metrics.
The episode continues with discussion on AI Max for Search, Google’s fully AI-powered campaign type, and the rollout of text guidelines for AI-generated copy, a much-needed control feature for marketers wary of overly creative machine-made messaging.
The duo also covers Meta’s big Reels and Threads advertising expansion, Microsoft’s enhanced Performance Max reporting, Amazon’s AI Ad Creator in Creative Studio, and YouTube’s new deep-linking ads to apps. They finish with a rapid-fire roundup of smaller but notable updates, including Google’s visual local ads, Meta’s new Ads Manager formatting tools, Microsoft’s consent tracking updates, and Amazon’s DSP partnership with SiriusXM.
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