As , Google Ads served other advertiser’s Merchant Center purchasing advertisements on different advertiser accounts. Google promised to concern credit after hiding the data in reviews due to privateness points. Now, Google emailed advertisers who have been impacted in regards to the concern, letting them know they requested the advertisers who’ve their information to delete that information.
Yehoshua Coren posted a screenshot on X of an e mail he acquired that confirmed which accounts have been impacted. The e-mail learn, “We lately recognized that as a consequence of a system concern, a few of the merchandise in your Google Service provider Heart account(s) have been exhibiting with one other advertiser’s advertisements beginning on July 30, 16:54:38 PDT.” It added, “Consequently, your Product attributes information (equivalent to Service provider Heart ID, Model, Class and Product title) have been additionally briefly 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 deal with the problems and one was to ask advertisers to delete information that isn’t theirs. Google wrote:
- Mounted the difficulty that had affected these merchandise on July 31, 11:27:35 PDT
- Eliminated the wrong information from the affected reviews
- Instructed the advertiser that had the wrong information of their account to delete any copies of the info that they could have made
Yea, I’m certain these advertisers all deleted all of that information.
Here’s a screenshot of that e mail:
Different advertisers have been posting these screenshots as nicely on social.
#ppcchat I simply acquired this e-mail from the GMC staff relating to the Purchasing points.
That final half made me chuckle 😀
How will they verify that? 😅😂 pic.twitter.com/DjyCGtBtl3
— Alfred Simon (@AlfredSimon) August 19, 2024
A flood of emails in regards to the latest MC ID cross-pollination bug is beginning.
Observe there are 2 important flavors: if one other advertiser served *your* merchandise, or if *you* served one other advertiser’s merchandise. In a single case the mail is distributed by the MC staff, within the different by the Advertisements staff. https://t.co/1Be8mQwqEu pic.twitter.com/UpZe7KJXSa
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryanretail) August 19, 2024
Anu at Search Engine Land has a good reaction recap on this information.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
