New Performance Max campaigns will default into broader image and video sourcing. Audit creation code, approved sources and commercial-use rights before December 4.

Google Ads is rolling out channel priorities and best-effort budget caps. Baseline allocation now and prepare Search campaigns before February 2027.

Walmart changed its US simplified-shipping API on October 15, 2026. Remove shippingPriority dependencies and test the new optional fields.

Preserve provenance metadata in AI-created Merchant Center images, label regulated creatives, and verify every delivered asset file.

AI Max migration removed exact-like priority from campaign-level broad keywords. Verify routing now, add exact coverage where needed, and preserve the cutover record.

Google Ads API v22 shut down October 7, 2026. Find failed or low-frequency callers, migrate them, and verify production is clear.

ankka.ai uses audit-led ecommerce investigations as a wedge into governed company memory; repeatable customer value and scalable delivery remain unproven.

Google is moving select Local Services Ads into pay-per-lead Performance Max. Export history, map bidding rules and verify settings before the migration.

Meta removes its Commerce Order Management API on October 27, 2026. Move order, payment, refund and fulfillment evidence to your commerce system now.

Audit paid acquisition in eight passes to find profit leaks without treating platform-attributed ROAS as incremental profit.

WebMCP is deployed across almost 100,000 Commerce.com storefront domains, but adoption and broad browser reach remain unproven.

Audit Merchant Center at offer-and-context grain, preserve source identity through migrations, and separate approval from actual serving.

Add labels, titles and identifiers through supplemental feeds without replacing the primary catalog—and protect every link during API migrations.

Design stable product labels for Google, Meta and Microsoft without forcing one platform's field semantics onto every channel.

Separate answer crawlers, user-fetchers, training bots and policy tokens so your shop blocks intentionally without turning away buyers.

Audit AI access in dependency order: fetchability, edge blocks, rendering, product truth, permissions, then optional agent protocols.

Seven months of logs found no verified frontier-lab llms.txt fetches. Keep the file small, current and outside your AI-visibility KPIs.

Prioritize AI-shopping work that improves discovery now: crawler access, product feeds, schema and policies—not speculative protocols.

Compare Google, Meta and Microsoft feed requirements, including Canada warranty data and Google’s structured text and AI-image rules, before upload.

Merchant Center changed YouTube and ads product reporting on August 24, 2026. Preserve old extracts and separate definition breaks from performance changes.

Google scheduled Search campaign language controls to stop affecting delivery in late September 2026. Confirm rollout and audit ads, landing pages, queries and API writes.