Introducing new user roles

Note: This feature is currently in beta release to a limited group of publishers.

We are introducing new user roles to help you manage user access to your account. You can now assign more specific user roles with different account permissions and limit the apps your users can access in your account. 

What's new?

When you share your account with other people, you can now assign one of the following user roles: 

• Administrator: This role can manage the entire account. Administrators can view and manage all apps and features in an account, cancel an account, add users, and more. 
• Manager: This role can view and manage all apps and features in an account. However, they cannot manage administrator tasks like adding a user, canceling an account, and accepting new terms and conditions. 
• Monetization manager: This role can view and manage all features related to inventory management and reporting. You can specify which apps this role has access to within an AdMob account.   
• Ad operations manager: This role can view and manage all features related to inventory management. You can specify which apps this role has access to within an AdMob account.   
• Viewer: This role can only view features related to inventory management and reporting. You can specify which apps this role has access to within an AdMob account. 

The following table details the permissions associated with each level of access.

Note: The new user roles will affect the AdMob API. The data returned will be in line with the table below.

	Admin-istrator	Manager	Monetiz-ation manager	Ad operations manager	Viewer
Inventory management: Apps and ad units, (including app-level blocking controls and linked services) Mediation Campaigns Policy center					View only
Reporting					View only
Payments
Account Management: Account-level blocking controls Account-level linked services  Notifications Change history Privacy & messaging
Administrator Tasks: View, edit, and manage an account Cancel an account Manage user access Accept, reject, or cancel MCM relationships Accept new AdMob terms and conditions
Access to specific apps: Administrators can limit the apps that these user roles can access.	N/A  Access to all apps.	N/A  Access to all apps.

Get started

If you have administrator permissions, you can add a user to your account:

1. Sign in to your AdMob account at https://apps.admob.com.
2. Click Settings in the sidebar.
3. Click the Users tab. 
4. Click Add user. 
5. Enter the email address of the user you’re inviting to have access to your account and select the user role you’d like to assign that user. 
6. Click Send invite. This sends an invitation to the email you entered. The user is added to your users page with the status of Pending invite. 
7. Click Done. 

You can change the user’s role or remove the user from your account at any time. Note: The user must accept the invitation before you can change the user’s role.  

Allow access to specific apps

Administrators can limit the number of apps a user can access in an AdMob account. You can specify which apps you’d like a user to access for the following user roles:

• Monetization manager 
• Ad operations manager
• Viewer

Once the user has accepted your invitation, you can specify which apps they can access. The user can’t access any apps until you select and confirm the apps this user can access:

1.  Sign in to your AdMob account at https://apps.admob.com.
2. Click Settings in the sidebar.
3. Click the Users tab. 
4. In the App access column of the user, click .
5. Select the apps you’d like this user to access, or click the toggle next to Select all current and future apps to give the user access to all apps in your AdMob account. 
6. Click Confirm.

Note: If you have mediation groups and campaigns that target ad units belonging to multiple apps, you’ll need to grant the user access to all the apps that share any mediation groups or campaigns. 

For example, if you want app A to share a mediation group with app B, you must first grant the user access to both app A and app B. 

If you don’t want a user to have access to other apps, consider splitting the mediation groups and campaigns to target one app only. 

For example, if you want a user to only have access to app A, but app A shares a mediation group with app B, you can make a new mediation group to target only app A. You can also copy existing mediation groups.

AdSense access

If you also use the AdSense account that’s associated with this AdMob account, you’ll see the users you’ve added to your AdMob account listed in your AdSense user management page. 

If you assign the Administrator or Manager role in AdMob, the same level of access to AdSense will be granted to the user you’re adding to AdMob. For example, if you add a user to your AdMob account as an administrator, they will also be an administrator in AdSense. 

Also note that the manager role is the same as standard user access in AdSense. The following table details how the AdMob user roles correspond to the AdSense user roles.  

 

AdMob user role	Corresponding AdSense user role
Administrator	Administrator
Manager	Standard
Monetization manager	AdMob-only (This user can’t access your AdSense account)
Ad operations manager	AdMob-only (This user can’t access your AdSense account)
Viewer	AdMob-only (This user can’t access your AdSense account)