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Audit checks / G-AD-01

Ad group with nothing to show

An ad group without an enabled ad never enters an auction. It looks fine in the campaign list and spends nothing, so nobody notices the demand it is not reaching.

Fires when
A live Search ad group has no enabled ad, or no responsive search ad.
What to do
Create a responsive search ad.
How the impact is estimated
Not quantified: an ad group with no ads cannot serve, so its demand does not show in any report.
Platform
Google Ads
Severity
high
Looks back
The current setup
Autopilot
Never applied automatically.

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