Ads, agents, and the work in between

Guides on running Google Ads and Meta Ads through AI clients — what MCP actually changes, what to never let an agent do unsupervised, and the audits worth automating first.

MCP guides

• The Best MCP Servers for Marketers

  The marketing stack rather than the developer one — ads, analytics, Search Console, SEO data, sheets and scraping — plus five questions to vet a server before you hand it an API key.

  August 4, 2026 · 8 min read

• Google Ads MCP Server: Run Google Ads From Claude

  What a Google Ads MCP server is, the 104-tool surface behind one, how to connect it to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor in two minutes, and the four guardrail questions to ask before an AI touches live spend.

  August 4, 2026 · 9 min read

• Meta Ads MCP Server: Run Facebook & Instagram Ads From Claude

  The 19 Meta tools behind an MCP connection, why the learning phase makes edit frequency a performance variable, what is safe to delegate on Meta versus Google, and the prompts worth running weekly.

  August 4, 2026 · 8 min read

Run ads with your AI client

• How to Manage Google Ads With Claude

  Connect, verify, audit read-only for a week, then enable writes with guardrails — plus a weekly prompt routine that survives past the novelty phase.

  August 4, 2026 · 7 min read

• Managing Google Ads With ChatGPT: What Actually Works

  ChatGPT cannot see your account by default, and confident invented benchmarks are the result. What it is genuinely good at, and how connectors close the execution gap.

  August 4, 2026 · 7 min read

• Managing Google Ads With Gemini: Native AI vs an MCP Connection

  Google already built Gemini into Google Ads. What the in-product assistant does well, where its incentives point, and what Gemini CLI adds through MCP.

  August 4, 2026 · 6 min read

Tool comparisons

• Optmyzr Alternatives

  Opteo, Adalysis, Karooya, Ads Editor and AI-chat tools — matched to the actual reason you are leaving, including when to stay.

  August 4, 2026 · 7 min read

• Opteo Alternatives

  What to use when the recommendation queue thins out, or when half your spend moved to Meta.

  August 4, 2026 · 6 min read

• Adalysis Alternatives

  Adalysis does three separate jobs. Split them before you shop — testing, alerts, and audit reporting have different replacements.

  August 4, 2026 · 6 min read

• AdEspresso Alternatives

  The permutation-grid workflow it was built for is the workflow Meta's learning phase now punishes. What replaces it.

  August 4, 2026 · 6 min read

• Madgicx Alternatives

  Four products in one subscription. Unbundling is usually cheaper than swapping suites — here is which piece goes where.

  August 4, 2026 · 6 min read