Marketing News April 8, 2026: Google's AI Mode Is Now a Store, ChatGPT Ads Open to Everyone, Beehiiv Moves into Podcasting, and the AI Content Study That Changes Your Content Strategy

This is your marketing news for the week of April 8, 2026 and this week we have four marketing stories for you. Google moved two new ad formats live inside AI Mode and it's not just ads, it's full checkout. ChatGPT advertising dropped its $200,000 entry barrier this month. Beehiiv made a move worth knowing about if you run a podcast. Semrush just published a study with 42,000 data points on AI content and Google rankings and the gap between what the data shows and what most ...