Shopping Ads Testing In AI Mode, Microsoft’s AI Search Guide & Keyword Strategy Shift

January 17, 2026

Total Budgets Expand, Direct Offers, & Shopping Promotions

Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse. This week’s news centers around quite a few Google updates. Google rolled out campaign total budgets in open beta, introduced a new Direct Offers pilot inside AI Mode, and confirmed several Shopping promotion policy updates taking effect in early 2026. The updates affect how advertisers manage fixed promotional spend,

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