April 21, 2025
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Good morning.
Today’s roundup:
1) Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules.
2) Google faces £5 billion lawsuit in the UK for abusing ‘near-total dominance’ in search.
3) Google Ads Suspended 200% More Advertisers (39.2M) & Removed 5.5 Billion Ads.
Google has released its annual Google Ads Safety report and the big number that stands out to me is that Google has suspended over 200% more advertiser accounts in 2024 than it did in 2023; 39.2 million versus 12.7 million. Google also removed 5.1 billion ads, restricted over 9.1B ads, restricted ads on 1.3 billion publisher pages and took broader site-level enforcement action on over 220,000 publisher sites.
4) Google’s Elizabeth Reid: ‘Human curiosity is boundless and people ask a lot of questions’.
5) TikTok Ads introduces new exclusion lists.
6) Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads.
7) SEOFOMO Survey Shows How Ecommerce SEOs Use AI In 2025.
8) LinkedIn Study Finds Adding Links Boosts Engagement By 13%.
9) Zuckerberg Admits That Time Spent on Facebook and Instagram Has Declined.
10) Google Search ccTLDs Are Going Away.
11) Google: Nothing Has Changed With International SEO with ccTLD Change.
12) Google Ads Personalized Boost Ad Performance Email.
More insights to explore…
Search behavior, decoded: What platform preference really tells us.
YouTube Shares Tips on How to Convert Long-Form Content into Shorts.
OpenAI is building a social network.
Have an awesome week!
— Itay Paz
Itay PazFounder & CEO
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