On February 1, 2022, SPM was retired and replaced by Multiple Customer Management (MCM).
With Multiple Customer Management (MCM) Manage Account delegation type, parent publishers are granted edit access to manage inventory directly in the child publisher account. The child publisher retains permissions and access to all settings.
While a parent publisher can use Manage Account for one or more child publishers, a child publisher can only have one parent publisher use Manage Account.
For Ad Manager 360 platform partners, please read the MCM documentation specific to your use.
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Payment facilitation
Manage Account offers payment facilitation, where Google can automatically send earnings accrued in the child network to the parent. For reseller partners, this percentage is always 100%. For other partners, this percentage is specified in the invitation from the parent to the child and can vary from 0-100%.
Payment facilitation applies to earnings from the child's Primary Ad Exchange account for the following transaction types:
- Open Bidding (except where the third-party demand partner directly pays the child or a third party on the child's behalf)
- Preferred Deals
- Programmatic Guaranteed
- Private Auctions
- Open Auctions
Get started
- Enable the necessary permissions.
- Request access to another publisher's network (for child publishers or Ad Manager 360 platform partners).
- Approve a request for network access (for child publishers).
Open Bidding restrictions
In Open Bidding, Manage Account parents can’t adjust the settings of a child partner with the status “Onboard online started.” If you click a bidder's name with that status, the page redirects.
Check the SPM to MCM migration timeline
The migration to MCM is happening in two schedules. Follow the dates for your arrangement.
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June 30, 2021 | All eligible partners should complete contracting by June 30 to ensure access to the MCM program. |
Nov 15, 2021 |
No new child publishers can be added to SPM starting Nov 15. Invite new children directly to MCM. |
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Jan 31, 2022 | SPM will be turned off. | |
Feb 1, 2022 |
For inventory not associated with an MCM parent by Jan 31, 2022, ads will stop serving on Feb 1, 2022. SPM subsyndicates become inaccessible in Ad Manager. |
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June 30, 2021 | All eligible partners should complete contracting by June 30 to ensure access to the MCM program. |
July 1, 2021 | No new child publishers can be added to SPM starting July 1. Invite new children directly to MCM. | |
Jan 31, 2022 | SPM will be turned off. | |
Feb 1, 2022 |
For inventory not associated with an MCM parent by Jan 31, 2022, ads will stop serving on Feb 1. SPM subsyndicates become inaccessible in Ad Manager. |
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Sept 12, 2022 | The SPM tab is removed from Ad Manager. For owned and operated earnings data, check Reporting or Payments. |