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Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared?

Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared?

Responsive Search Ads – RSA for short – are not the new kids on the block. RSAs have been a part of the PPC ecosystem for a few years. That being said, RSAs have been a hot topic in 2022. Why all the hubbub about them now? This summer, the preceding ad type, Expanded Text Ads, is being deprecated. This puts Responsive Search Ads front and center for advertisers as the singular text ad type for search campaigns. Let’s dig in a little bit… Source link

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‘We need to be prepared for all scenarios’

‘We need to be prepared for all scenarios’

Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal.Getty Images Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal hasn’t been active on Twitter since the Musk buy. Agrawal in a thread referenced Twitter’s hiring pause and said he expected the deal to go through. “I won’t use the deal as an excuse to avoid making important decisions for the health of the company,” he wrote. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal hasn’t been very vocal on his Twitter account since Elon Musk mounted a bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion in late April — but that changed on… Source link

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Fed ‘prepared to take stronger action’ on inflation

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said that the central bank can raise interest rates more aggressively to dampen the high rate of inflation felt by Americans. Brainard, who is awaiting a confirmation vote to serve in the central bank’s number two role, added that policymakers are attuned to the disparate impacts of inflation on particularly lower-income households. “Currently, inflation is much too high and is subject to upside risks,” Brainard said at a conference Tuesday. “The… Source link

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Russia prepared for 8 years to be cut off from the West. Meet the payment system that’s still processing its credit card transactions

Since the start of the Ukraine War, a barrage of western sanctions has crippled the Russian economy and wreaked havoc on its financial system. The country has been largely cut off from the international payment system SWIFT, seen its access to $630 billion in foreign exchange reserves restricted, and watched as more than $17 billion in assets were seized from Russian oligarchs. But for the past eight years, Russia has been preparing for the worst. In June of 2014, just three months after its… Source link

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Everyone’s buying a Tesla — but are they prepared to pay for the insurance?

Everyone’s buying a Tesla — but are they prepared to pay for the insurance? If you feel like you’re suddenly seeing that shiny metal “T” everywhere on the road, you’re not mistaken. Electric vehicles sales are soaring, and Tesla is leading the charge. EV sales in the U.S. nearly doubled in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same time last year, says a new report by Experian, with Elon Musk’s car company commanding a 71% share. Tesla also recently announced that it doubled its worldwide… Source link

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Are You Prepared for Google’s Core Web Vitals?

No matter how hard I try, I always put thing off until my back is up against a wall and I have little to no time left to get it done. As Thomas Jefferson said: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Well, I guess I’ve seldom heeded Mr. Jefferson’s advice and it appears that many marketers and business owners are falling into the same trap when it comes to the newest update from Google. About a year ago, Google let us know that they were planning on a major update to their… Source link

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Derek Chauvin verdict had Minneapolis businesses prepared to ‘hit the panic button’

A jury on Tuesday found ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of two counts of murder for the killing George Floyd, an unarmed Black man whose death sparked nationwide Black Lives Matters protests. The jury, after 10 hours of deliberation, found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter for the killing of Floyd on May 25, 2020. Business owners around Minneapolis, where the trial was held, have been on edge over the last year, with heightened… Source link

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