Shuffleboard Table At Google’s NYC Office

Sometimes, the disconnect between Google Ads and the primary user base is so strong that you can almost feel it. A perfect example is how advertisers have constantly asked for the option to exclude branded traffic from Performance Max campaigns. Google remained non-committal for over a year, except to suggest account-level negative keywords (not the same thing at all). Until the announcement of campaign-level brand exclusions earlier this year, you couldn’t go a single day without someone sharing a real example where excluding branded queries would […]

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, posted last night that Google Ads has an issue where some ads may not be served. “Google is aware of an internal issue impacting ads serving,” she wrote. She said, “the impact of this issue may prevent ads from serving in certain circumstances for your account.”