Microsoft Copilot announced a trio of updates to its platform, including: A new homepage design. New inline editing of AI-generated images with Microsoft Designer integration. New video highlights in Edge. Why we care. Microsoft’s updated Copilot homepage is designed to make navigation smoother, though it might take a bit of getting used to. Meanwhile, the…
Google Ads will phase out commissions (per stay) and commissions (per conversion) bid strategies for hotel ads in October. Instead, the platform is introducing target Return on Ads Spend (tROAS) for hotel campaigns, along with an expanded Performance Max for travel goals, as alternative bid strategies. Why we care. Advertisers will need to shift bid…
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be an indispensable technique in AI, particularly in pretraining representations on vast, unlabeled datasets. This significantly reduces the dependency on labeled data, often a major bottleneck in machine learning. Despite the merits, a major challenge in SSL, particularly in Joint Embedding (JE) architectures, is evaluating the quality of…
Processing extensive sequences of linguistic data has been a significant hurdle, with traditional transformer models often buckling under the weight of computational and memory demands. This limitation is primarily due to the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanisms these models rely on, which scales poorly as sequence length increases. The introduction of State Space…
Microsoft is launching enhanced conversions in all markets across America and Europe in the coming weeks. Additionally, the tech giant introduced new ad-targeting capabilities to assist brands in reaching high-value consumers. Why we care. Leveraging these latest updates has the potential to enhance campaign performance significantly. By refining conversion measurement, you can optimize campaigns more effectively,…
Snap’s revenue saw a 5% increase for the final quarter of last year, reaching $1.36 billion. Despite this growth, the figure fell slightly below Wall Street analysts’ forecasts, who had anticipated $1.38 billion for Snapchat’s parent company. However, Q4 saw net losses narrowed to $248 million, showing improvement from the $288 million reported in the…
Google Ads is currently investigating issues related to payments and credit cards. Users experiencing these problems are unable to update their payment methods or credit card details at this time. Why we care. If your campaign is impacted by these issues, rest assured that the problem lies with Google Ads, and they are actively working to…
Link building has been considered one of the most important SEO strategies for a long time. The more links you could acquire, especially from authoritative sites, the better your search rankings were supposed to be. But SEO has evolved. Google’s algorithms are now much more sophisticated. To improve search rankings today, you need a comprehensive…
Google cannot proceed with third-party cookie deprecation until it resolves concerns raised by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The search engine needs to do more to address issues raised around its proposed Privacy Sandbox changes or else it will not be able to deprecate third-party cookies from Chrome in the second half of…
Amazon has secured a landmark deal with Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, to access customer data for targeted advertising. The agreement, one of the first of its kind in Europe, comes in response to Google’s plans to deprecate third-party cookies later this year. Why we care. As advertisers explore options beyond third-party cookies for targeted…
