Goodbye Frequent Flyer Miles: Google Saying No Credit Cards For Large AdWords Customers

Large Customer Sales accounts will be transitioned to invoicing.

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The gravy train to free flights and upgrades is coming to a halt for some AdWords customers. Google has been reaching out to major advertising clients and agencies to let them know that they’ll no longer be able to pay their AdWords bills with credit cards and will instead be moved to an invoicing process.

It’s not hard to see why Google would make this change. The small percentage in credit card processing fees that Google pays on those charges undoubtedly adds up to a very large sum.

On Twitter, Kelly on the AdWords social team explained that the change affects only Large Customer Sales accounts on credit card billing and that those accounts make up less than 1 percent of all AdWords customers.

Meanwhile, the 99 percenters can continue to rack up those credit card points.


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Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, MarTech and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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