Marketing News This Week: Google Opens the Performance Max Black Box,Meta's AI Predicts Your Best Influencers to Hire, and the Report Every Person in Marketing Needs to Read Right Now About AI Marketing ROI

This is your Marketing News for the week of February 11th, 2026. This week’s marketing theme across all the marketing news… Proof. Google just gave advertisers something they've been demanding since Performance Max launched. And if you run PMax campaigns…. What they revealed could change how you spend your budget as early as this week. Meta made a move in creator marketing that flips how brands evaluate influencer partnerships. Forget follower count. There's a new signal — and the early data ...