Google Emails Advertisers About Ad Bug & Said They Asked Advertisers To Delete Your Data

As you realize, Google Ads served other advertiser’s Merchant Center purchasing adverts on different advertiser accounts. Google promised to challenge credit after hiding the data in reviews due to privateness points. Now, Google emailed advertisers who have been impacted concerning the challenge, letting them know they requested the advertisers who’ve their knowledge to delete that knowledge.

Yehoshua Coren posted a screenshot on X of an e mail he obtained that confirmed which accounts have been impacted. The e-mail learn, “We lately recognized that resulting from a system challenge, a few of the merchandise in your Google Service provider Heart account(s) have been displaying with one other advertiser’s adverts beginning on July 30, 16:54:38 PDT.” It added, “Consequently, your Product attributes knowledge (equivalent to Service provider Heart ID, Model, Class and Product title) have been additionally quickly out there as reporting dimensions in that Google Advertisements account within the Report Editor, Advertisements Editor and the Google Advertisements API. The affected accounts):”

Then the e-mail says which steps Google took to handle the problems and one was to ask advertisers to delete knowledge that’s not theirs. Google wrote:

• Mounted the problem that had affected these merchandise on July 31, 11:27:35 PDT
• Eliminated the inaccurate knowledge from the affected reviews
• Instructed the advertiser that had the inaccurate knowledge of their account to delete any copies of the information that they might have made

Yea, I’m certain these advertisers all deleted all of that knowledge.

Here’s a screenshot of that e mail:

Different advertisers have been posting these screenshots as nicely on social.

Anu at Search Engine Land has a good reaction recap on this information.

Discussion board dialogue at X.