Google Ads Suspended 90% More Advertisers This Year & Removed 5.5 Billion Ads

April 1, 2024

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Today’s roundup:

1) Facebook’s top secret ‘Project Ghostbusters’ spied on Snapchat, documents reveal.

2) Florida governor signs law restricting social media access for children.

3) Google Ads Suspended 90% More Advertisers This Year & Removed 5.5 Billion Ads.

Google has released the 2023 Google Ads safety report sharing that Google has removed 5.5 billion ads, suspended 12.7 million advertiser accounts and restricted ads from showing up on 2.1 billion publisher pages. That is about 6% more ads removed, 90% more suspended advertiser accounts and 40% more ads removed from publisher pages.

4) LinkedIn Tests Dedicated Video Feed.

5) YouTube Adds Improved Audience Retention Data, Streamlined Pre-Checks.

6) Amazon ordered to publicly share details of ads it serves in the EU.

7) Elementor WordPress Plugin Hit By 6 Vulnerabilities.

8) LinkedIn Adds Dynamic UTM Parameters to Campaign Tracking.

9) Meta Says End-to-End Encryption Will Be the Default in Messenger ‘in the Coming Months’.

10) Google Updates Its Definition Of Top Ads; They May Not Be At The Top.

11) SEOs, Please Don’t Remove Contact Us & About Us Pages.

12) Google: Publishing More Content Doesn’t Improve Quality For Faster Indexing.

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