Under Pressure

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Under pressure from a probe into its data usage, Google is already making changes.

As my colleague Ronan Shields reported, Google Analytics got a bit of an overhaul earlier this week when the company announced updates designed to help marketers better measure the success of ad campaigns in real-time.

Among those new features: advertisers will know when certain product topics are trending; they can now measure how YouTube ads, in-app and on the web, perform in organic channels, like email.

Read the full story from Shields.

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Stat of the Day: Of the 2,500 mom-and-pop book stores in the country, about 20% are in danger of permanently closing due to the effects of Amazon and Covid-19.

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