Google investigating error impacting AdMob messages

Affected users can't create or publish new messages within the platform's privacy and messaging area.

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Google Ads is investigating reports of an issue impacting AdMob.

Users experiencing this problem are unable to create and publish new messages within the platform’s privacy and messaging area.

Why we care. If you’re seeing error messages when creating and publishing new messages in AdMob, be assured that the issue lies on Google’s end, not yours, and their engineers are actively investigating the matter.

When will the problem be fixed? Google is yet to confirm when it is likely to provide additional updates on resolving this issue, however, Search Engine Land will keep you posted.

When did the issue start? Google confirmed that the incident began at 9.30am ET on March 5, and it began investigating at 10.48am ET.

What Google is saying. Google said in a statement:

  • “We’re investigating reports of an issue with AdMob. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are able to access AdMob, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.”

Update: Google confirmed this issue is now resolved.

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Nicola Agius
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Nicola Agius was Paid Media Editor of Search Engine Land from 2023-2024. She covered paid media, retail media and more. Prior to this, she was SEO Director at Jungle Creations (2020-2023), overseeing the company's editorial strategy for multiple websites. She has over 15 years of experience in journalism and has previously worked at OK! Magazine (2010-2014), Mail Online (2014-2015), Mirror (2015-2017), Digital Spy (2017-2018) and The Sun (2018-2020). She also previously teamed up with SEO agency Blue Array to co-author Amazon bestselling book Mastering In-House SEO.

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