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To keep ads safe and appropriate for everyone, ads are reviewed to make sure that they comply with Google Ads policies. Most ads are reviewed within one working day.
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Your ads under review
Check your ad’s status and get help if you need it. Most reviews are completed within one working day, but more complex reviews can take longer.
How ad review works
After you create or edit an ad or asset, the review process begins automatically. The content in your ad is reviewed, including your headline, description, keywords, destination and any images and video.
If your ad passes the review, its status will change to 'Eligible' and it will start to run. If your ad's status is 'Eligible' but it isn't running, check that the campaign it belongs to isn't paused.
If the review indicates that your ad violates a policy, its status will change to 'Disapproved', which means it can’t show anywhere. You’ll be notified of the policy violation and informed what you can do next.
Learn how to check the review status of an ad or asset.
Ad status is 'Under review'
Your ad's status is 'Under review' during the ad review process. Changes to your ad or assets restart the review process and may cause delays.
Google reserves the right to prioritise ad reviews or re-reviews to ensure the overall stability of system operations, or temporarily restrict ad serving to ensure policy compliance.
How long ad review takes
- Most ads are reviewed within one working day. However, some reviews take longer if the ad requires a more complex review.
- If your ad is under review for more than two full working days, check your ad’s status.
- If your ad has been under review for more than a week, contact Google Ads Support for assistance.
How to start ads on a particular date
If you need your ad reviewed by a particular date, submit the ad several days in advance. To stop an ad from running as soon as its status is 'Eligible', pause the ad, ad group or campaign. Paused ads are reviewed just like active ads. Learn how to Pause or resume your ads.
If you're also planning to launch a new web page at the same time, that web page will need to be complete for your ad to be reviewed.
To make sure that the new page stays hidden until your launch date:
- Don't link to the new page on the rest of your website. If you were to link to the new page, then search engines might index it, and the page could start appearing in search results.
- Configure your website’s 'robots.txt' file. Your robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. You can update your robots.txt file to tell search engines not to index the page. When you're ready to launch, update your robots.txt file again to allow crawlers to access the page. Learn how to write and submit a robots.txt file.