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On AI for ad operations

Trends, opinion and playbooks on running paid media with AI agents — what changed, what works, and how to stay in control.

Product
Agent Planners now has an API and MCP server — run it from Claude, Codex, or any agent

Agent Planners now exposes a REST API and an MCP server, so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, or any agent or script you run can create and monitor tasks against your ad accounts — with the same approval gates and guardrails as the in-app Workspace.

Jul 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook
How AI finds and cuts wasted ad spend

Most accounts quietly leak budget on zero-converting search terms, low-ROAS campaigns and dead placements. How an AI agent finds the waste and proposes the cuts — with your approval.

Jun 28, 2026 · 6 min read
Playbook
How to audit a Google Ads account with AI (2026)

A complete Google Ads audit checklist — structure, search terms, budgets, tracking, disapprovals, wasted spend — and how an AI agent runs it in minutes, read-only.

Jun 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Concepts
Multi-agent systems for marketing, explained

What a multi-agent system is, why an orchestrator plus specialists beats one big prompt, and where it fits in marketing — from research to optimization to reporting.

Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Playbook
Choosing an AI model for ad ops

Frontier models are powerful but pricey; cheaper models handle most ad-ops work fine. How to match the model to the task and keep your credit spend low.

Jun 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook
Always-on ad ops

Turn one-off AI tasks into scheduled jobs — weekly reviews, disapproval monitoring, budget pacing, search-term sweeps — that re-evaluate live data and email you what to approve.

Jun 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Trends
The state of AI in PPC in 2026

Agentic AI, MCP, reviewability and first-party ROAS — the five shifts that actually changed paid search in 2026, and what they mean for your ad ops.

Jun 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Concepts
Agentic AI vs rule-based automation in advertising

Rules and scripts do exactly what you wrote; agentic AI reasons from a goal. Here's the real difference for advertisers — and when each one wins.

Jun 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Opinion
Why fully-autonomous ad bots fail — the case for human-in-the-loop

Hand an AI your ad budget with no gate and it will eventually make an expensive, confident mistake. The case for human-in-the-loop — without killing velocity.

Jun 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook
Cut Google Ads busywork with AI

A practical playbook for using AI to remove the repetitive Google Ads work — audits, negatives, budget pacing, reporting — without losing control of the account.

Jun 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Playbook
AI ad ops for agencies

How agencies use AI to run audits and optimizations across many client accounts (MCC) — with per-account guardrails, approvals and a dry-run so nothing goes wrong.

Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Concepts
Beyond Performance Max

Performance Max automates reach but hides its reasoning. Here's how to keep visibility and control — with reviewable AI, first-party ROAS and negative-list discipline.

Jun 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Trends
Advertising in the age of AI search (ChatGPT & Perplexity)

As buyers ask AI assistants instead of typing keywords, discovery is shifting. What marketers should do now — from GEO to first-party measurement.

Jun 20, 2026 · 5 min read