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Why your campaign suddenly stopped spending

A campaign that stops spending looks broken. Usually it is constrained.

  1. Target set too aggressively. Google will show nothing rather than bid where it cannot hit your goal. The most common cause by far.
  2. Budget exhausted earlier in the day than you noticed.
  3. Disapprovals — products or ads removed from the auction entirely.
  4. Billing problem — a declined card stops everything and the email goes to an address nobody reads.
  5. Audience or location too narrow to serve.

Check in that order. Four of the five are visible in under two minutes.

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