We're excited to bring you a special bonus episode of Google’s Ads DevCast! We’re going over a few of the bigger announcements and updates from Google Marketing Live (GML) 2026 that directly affect our developers and technical users, across Tagging, Data Manager, and Meridian.

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Key Highlights from the Episode

• Tagging improvements: Discover the new Google tag gateway In-UI setup offerings (featuring GCP, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly) and new CMS integrations. We also discuss Visual Tagging for troubleshooting purchase conversions, and how we are bringing GTM capabilities directly to the Google tag.
• Data Manager API: Learn about the value of single ingestion and multi-feed, allowing you to flow first-party data to multiple Google products with a unified schema. We also touch on Confidential Matching for privacy-safe audience building.
• Meridian (open-source MMM): Get an overview of the new Meridian offerings announced at GML, including Meridian in GA360, Meridian Studio (featuring native agentic capabilities), and Meridian GeoX for incrementality calibration.

Listen to the episode to get all the details and prepare for next week's deep dive into Meridian!

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This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

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A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

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Chrome Release Team
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You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

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