How we compare
The fastest way to keep up with PPC news
Paid media changes are announced across platform blogs, help-center updates, trade publications and social posts. Here's how the usual ways of keeping up compare with a single ranked feed.
- sources tracked
- 25sources tracked
- between checks
- 30 minbetween checks
- stories this week
- 51stories this week
- no ads, no paywall
- $0no ads, no paywall
Side by side
| Feature | Platform & trade sites | Email newsletters | RSS reader | Social feeds | Paid Media News |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers many platforms in one place | One site each | A curated few | Yes, once set up | Mixed | Yes, 25 sources |
| Same story merged across outlets | No | Sometimes | No | No | Yes |
| Ranked by impact on campaigns | No | Editors' picks | Newest first | By engagement | 0–100 score |
| Short summary of every story | Headline only | Often | Feed snippet | Rarely | TL;DR + summary |
| Ad-free | Varies | Often sponsored | Depends on feed | No | Yes |
| How fresh | As published | Daily or weekly | As fetched | Real time | Checked every 30 min |
| Setup needed | Bookmark each | Sign up for each | Find and manage feeds | Follow the right people | None |
| Cost | Free | Free or paid tiers | Free or paid apps | Free | Free |
Comparisons describe typical experiences with each approach; individual publications, newsletters and tools vary.
Built to send you to the source
Paid Media News doesn't replace the platforms' own announcements or the trade press. It helps you catch them faster: every story links straight to the original.
When something else is the better choice
For implementation details, go to the platform
Setup steps and policy fine print live in each platform's help center. Our summary tells you which changes to look up.
For a single expert's playbook, subscribe to them
If one practitioner's tactics matter most to you, follow their own newsletter or course.
Everything included, free
One feed instead of 20 tabs
We track 25 industry sources and check them every 30 minutes, so you don't have to visit each one.
Every story once
When several outlets cover the same news, you see one story with a list of who reported it, not the same headline five times.
Ranked by what matters
Each story gets an importance score from 0 to 100, judged by its impact on campaign performance, spend, targeting and tracking, not by clicks or recency.
Read it in 30 seconds
A one-line TL;DR and a short summary on every story, with a direct link to the full original article.
Always credited
Every story names and links the outlet that reported it. We summarize the industry's reporting; we don't pass it off as our own.
Free, no ads, no signup
No ads, no paywall and nothing to sign up for. Open the site and read.
Straight from the platforms
Alongside industry publications, we track official announcements from Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta and Google Marketing Platform.
RSS for your workflow
Pipe the feed into your RSS reader or a Slack channel so platform changes reach your team where they already work.
Try it for a day
No signup needed. Open today's top paid media stories, ranked by importance.