# Performance Max

Type: Product

Source: GetYourBrief — https://getyourbrief.com/entity/performance-max
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## Timeline

- **2026-09**: Rollout begins — Starting in late September, campaign-level language settings will be removed; Google will rely on ad creative and landing page language plus AI signals to determine eligibility.
- **2026-08-13**: Google announces language targeting removal — Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land report that Google Ads will remove campaign-level language targeting from Search campaigns and Search inventory within Performance Max.

## Recent coverage (5 stories, network-wide)

### Google Ads Loses 1 Key Language Targeting Control for Search Campaigns
2026-08-13 22:21:15 · Sector: marketing · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Google Ads is removing manual language targeting from Search campaigns and Search inventory within Performance Max starting late September 2026. Advertisers will need to rely on creative and landing page language plus Google AI to reach multilingual audiences, with major implications for ad serving control and campaign structure.
Full story: https://getmarketingbrief.com/story/google-ads-removes-language-targeting-search-marketing

### Ad Tech Dealers Sidelined as Big 3 Rake in $162.6B Q2 — M&A Outlook Dims
2026-08-04 05:14:01 · Sector: startups · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

The Q2 earnings gulf between dominant platforms and everyone else is frustrating dealmakers as public ad tech firms struggle and M&A remains elusive, despite record Big Tech ad spend.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/big-tech-162b-q2-ad-revenue-startup-ma-frustration

### Google’s $81B Ad Quarter: PMax Opt‑Off Gives SaaS Campaigns New Control
2026-08-04 05:13:54 · Sector: saas · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Google’s PMax pilot, revealed during the $81.6 billion Q2 cycle, allows SaaS advertisers to exclude low‑quality inventory, a transparency upgrade that could reshape automated campaign management.
Full story: https://getsaasbrief.com/story/google-pmax-opt-out-saas-campaign-control-81b-q2

### Meta’s $61B Q2 Ad Haul Closes Gap on Google’s $81.6B; PMax Pilot Offers New Control
2026-08-04 05:13:47 · Sector: marketing · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Q2 results show Meta and Amazon gaining share as Google makes a rare PMax transparency move, giving media buyers a new lever in campaign optimization and platform negotiations.
Full story: https://getmarketingbrief.com/story/meta-61b-q2-google-pmax-pilot-control-marketers

### Wall Street Punishes Big Tech as AI Capex Eclipses $81.6B Google Ad Revenue
2026-08-04 05:13:39 · Sector: finance · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Despite record advertising hauls from Meta, Amazon, and Google, investor focus on soaring AI capital expenditures sent shares lower, reshaping the risk-reward calculus for ad tech stocks and M&A.
Full story: https://getfinancebrief.com/story/big-tech-q2-ad-revenue-wall-street-punish-ai-capex

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