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Good morning, Marketers, the Google Ads advertiser console went down for a couple of hours yesterday.

First reports came in around 9 a.m. ET. Advertisers trying to make changes to their Google Ads campaign were super frustrated and those trying to pull reports for clients were unsuccessful. The issue was resolved by 11 a.m. Google declined to offer any additional details on what happened.

These types of outages at the start of the workday are not fun and can cause huge stress. I hope you all dealt with it OK. And is it just me or does it seem like Google Ads is having more of these issues lately? 

Barry Schwartz,
Google outage reporter

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