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  • LinkedIn Newsletters Become a Real Ad Format

    What started as a beta in late 2025 is now generally available: LinkedIn Newsletter Ads. Brands can promote their newsletters directly in the feed, in subscriber inboxes, and through Audience Network placements.

    Early benchmarks from B2B advertisers show 28% lower CPL than Sponsored Content — particularly in IT services, fintech and SaaS verticals. The format includes built-in subscribe CTA, content preview, and series pacing controls.

    Operator take: If you’ve been investing in thought-leadership newsletters, this is the cheapest LinkedIn inventory of 2026. Move 10–15% of your LinkedIn budget here as a Q2 test pod. Pair with founder-led posts for compounding effect.

    Source — LinkedIn Marketing

  • Google’s AI Overviews Now Show Source Carousels

    The April 2026 Search update changes how AI Overviews credit sources. Instead of small inline links, Google now displays a horizontally-scrolling carousel of cited sites directly beneath the AI answer — with logo, headline and CTR-tracked clicks.

    Early data from Search Console shows cited domains seeing a 14–22% click-through lift on AI-Overview-eligible queries. Editorial domains and category-leader sites benefit the most.

    Operator take: Audit your top 30 commercial queries for AI Overview presence. If your domain is cited, double down on schema, author bios, and review/case-study content. If it isn’t — that’s now a serious traffic gap and a content-strategy priority.

    Source — Google Search blog

  • OpenAI’s Sora-2 Plugin Lands Inside Meta Ads Manager

    Meta’s late-April update brings a Sora-2 powered video generation tool natively into Ads Manager, accessible through the new “AI Creative” panel inside Advantage+ Shopping campaigns. Marketers can generate up to four 9-second variants per brief, with auto-cropping for Feed, Reels and Stories placements.

    The tool is currently available in 12 markets, with India rolling out in May. Meta has confirmed the generated videos do not count toward your monthly creative limit.

    Operator take: Use Sora-2 for variant testing — never as your hero asset. The model generates fast, but creative direction still wins. Lock your brand voice and edit ruthlessly.

    Source — Meta for Business

  • DPDP Compliance Window — 3 Months to Action

    India’s Digital Personal Data Protection rules enter the enforcement window. Consent banners, data principal grievance flows, and breach-notification SLAs become non-optional.

    Operator take: Get your consent stack and data-principal page audited now. Brands without compliant flows will see ad-platform reviews intensify.

    Source — MeitY

  • PMax Now Surfaces Asset-Level Performance Data

    Google has begun rolling out asset-level performance grouping in Performance Max — finally giving advertisers visibility into which creatives are doing the work inside the model.

    Operator take: Pull asset-level data weekly. Pause Low assets only after 14 days. The model still needs creative diversity to learn — don’t over-prune.

    Source — Google Ads release notes

  • Meta CPMs in India Spike +12.4% Week-on-Week

    Pre-IPL retail inventory pressure plus political-category spend is pushing Meta CPMs to a Q2 high across most placements in India. Lookalike audiences are hit hardest.

    Operator take: Tighten lookalike % seeds, push budget to Advantage+ Shopping where retail signals still drive efficiency. Hold off on broad-targeting tests until next month.

    Source — Meta Business