{"id":15542,"date":"2026-04-17T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/google-ads-removed-8-3-billion-ads-up-over-60-most-before-serving\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:45:29","slug":"google-ads-removed-8-3-billion-ads-up-over-60-most-before-serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/google-ads-removed-8-3-billion-ads-up-over-60-most-before-serving\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Ads Removed 8.3 Billion Ads &#8211; Up Over 60% (Most Before Serving)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released its annual Google Ads safety report and the big number that stands out to me is that Google removed 8.3 billion ads, which is up almost 63% from last year&#8217;s number of 5.1 billion.  Google did say that 99% of those were removed before serving the ad, thanks to Gemini.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released its annual Google Ads safety report and the big number that stands out to me is that Google removed 8.3 billion ads, which is up almost 63% from last year&#8217;s number of 5.1 billion. Google did say that 99% of those were removed before serving the ad, thanks to Gemini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}