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Paid Media

Brand Term Bidding: Should You Pay for Your Own Brand Name? (With an −80% CPA Case Study)

Should you bid on your own brand keywords? What the research says, how competitor bidding and Performance Max change the answer, and how one casino brand cut brand CPA by 80%.

24 Oct 2026
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Paid Media

ChatGPT Ads Explained: How Ads Get Matched to Conversations

How ChatGPT Ads actually work — context hints vs keywords, how an ad gets matched to a conversation, custom audiences, and how it compares with Google Ads targeting.

24 Oct 2026
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Paid Media

CTV Advertising for Performance Marketers: How to Buy It, Measure It and Pair It with Spotify

How to buy Connected TV like a performance channel: addressable buying, attribution, incrementality, the pitfalls, and why Spotify and DOOH video work alongside it.

24 Oct 2026
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Paid Media

Which DSPs Can Optimise to FTDs? Programmatic for Regulated Gambling in 2026

Which programmatic DSPs allow regulated gambling advertising, which can optimise bids to first-time deposits, and how to set up FTD tracking, PMPs and compliance controls.

24 Oct 2026
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Organic & AI Search

GEO and AEO: How to Get Found by AI Search in 2026

GEO and AEO explained: AEO vs GEO vs SEO, how Google AI Overviews and AI Mode pick sources, Perplexity, what the research says works, and free resources to learn it.

24 Oct 2026
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Paid Media

How to Advertise on ChatGPT: Ads Manager Setup, Ad Specs and What the Ads Look Like

A step-by-step guide to buying ChatGPT Ads in 2026 — account verification, campaign structure, context hints, ad specs, tracking and the settings to check before you launch.

24 Oct 2026
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Partnerships

iGaming Affiliate Benchmarks 2026: CPA, Revenue Share, FTD Conversion and ROAS

iGaming affiliate benchmarks for 2026: CPA per FTD by market, revenue-share and hybrid ranges, click-to-FTD conversion, LTV:CPA targets, and the regulation reshaping the numbers.

24 Oct 2026
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Organic & AI Search

How We Took a Client Site From a Failing Google PageSpeed Score to 100/100

A real page speed optimisation case study: from a 4.4s first paint and no Largest Contentful Paint to 100/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights. Every Core Web Vitals fix explained.

28 Sept 2026
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Paid Media

Read Your PPC Account Like a Book: The Column Layout That Tells the Story

The first thing we do in any PPC account: reorder the columns to mirror the funnel so the data reads like a story. A practical dashboard technique from a performance agency.

19 Aug 2026
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Convert & Retain

CRO Best Practices: How to Turn Paid Traffic Into Revenue

Conversion rate optimisation best practices and how they compound across paid media — lowering CPA, lifting ROAS and funding scale, from a performance agency.

28 Jul 2026
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Partnerships

Inside Grand National Offers: Building an Owned Audience for a Seasonal Event

How That’s It Media built Grand National Offers — an independent, SEO-first content property that captures high-intent seasonal demand as a durable first-party audience.

28 Jul 2026
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Paid Media

Google Ads in 2026: How the Platform Actually Works Now

How Google Ads really works in 2026 — AI Max, Performance Max, Smart Bidding and the controls that still matter — explained plainly by a founder-led performance agency.

27 Jul 2026

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