View changes to your account (Beta)

Note: You must be an account administrator or have account management permissions to view change history in an AdMob account.

Change history provides you with an overview of historical changes to your account. It includes details such as when and where the change was made and who made it.

On this page

• About change history
• Change details
• Find changes
• Supported changes
• User column

About change history

Change history can help you troubleshoot anomalies in your account. For example, if you noticed a drop in revenue on a certain date, you can search for changes made to your account around that date to determine what may have caused the drop.

To view your account’s change history:

1. Sign in to your AdMob account at https://admob.google.com.
2. Click Change history in the sidebar.

Change details

Change history includes app-level and account-level changes. For all changes, the following details are available:

• The date and time the change was made.
• The item that changed. If the item is hyperlinked, you can click to view where the change was made. For example, if you changed the ad type on an ad unit, the link will take you to the ad unit that was changed.
• The type of change. For example, “Added app."
• The user who made the change. Learn more about the user column.

Click  to expand more details about the changes, including a list of all affected items and a detailed description of the changes.

Find changes

To locate a change, type an item or change into the search bar. You can also apply a filter to search for specific changes.

Date range filter

The date filter helps you narrow the range of changes in change history. You can select an explicit date using the calendar, or select a relative date, such as “Today” or “Last 7 days”. This filter is applied by default, but you can edit the filter to change the default settings.

To make changes to the date filter:

1. Click the date filter in the Filter area at the top of your report.
2. Select a relative date range from the list or specify an exact date range using the calendar.
3. Click Apply.

Item type filter

The item type filter helps you narrow the types of items that were changed.

To filter on an item type:

1. Click Add filter.
2. Select one or more of the following item types:
   1. Ad unit
   2. App
   3. Blocking controls
   4. Mediation group
   5. User role
   6. User
3. Click Apply.

To remove an item type filter:

• Click the icon beside the filter you want to remove.

Supported changes

The following lists the changes that are supported in Change History.

Ad unit changes

• Added ad unit
• Removed ad unit
• Changed ad type
• Changed country-level eCPM
• Changed default eCPM
• Changed frequency cap
• Changed refresh rate

App changes

• Added app
• Changed frequency cap
• Blocked app
• Allowed app
• Blocked general category
• Allowed general category
• Allowed sensitive category
• Blocked URL
• Allowed URL
• Changed ad content rating

Blocking controls

• Allowed ad network
• Blocked ad network
• Updated blocking control preference for ad network
• Blocked app
• Allowed app
• Enabled ad review center
• Disabled ad review center
• Blocked general category
• Allowed general category
• Allowed sensitive category
• Blocked sensitive category
• Blocked URL
• Allowed URL
• Changed ad content rating

Mediation group changes

• Added mediation group
• Removed mediation group
• Enabled mediation group
• Disabled mediation group
• Added targeted country to group
• Removed targeted country from group
• Added excluded country to group
• Removed excluded country from group
• Added targeted ad unit to group
• Removed targeted ad unit from group
• Added ad source instance
• Removed ad source instance
• Changed ad source instance eCPM
• Changed mediation group priority

User access changes

There are two types of user access changes.

User changes:

• Added user
• Removed user
• Reactivated user
• Changed user role
• Assigned app-level access
• Removed app-level access
• Changed app-level access

User role changes:

• Added user role
• Removed user role
• Changed user role details

Note: Changes to the following will not be listed in change history:

• Account settings
• Campaigns
• Payments
• Policy center

AdMob is constantly working on improving change history. This means that you can expect new changes to be added to change history over time. Note that new changes only affect events that occur after they've been added to change history - they're not retroactive. For example, if a new change is added on March 31, 2022, you won't find instances of that change in your account prior to March 31, 2022.

User column

The user column lets you know which one of the following users made the change:

• The email of the user who made the change.
  Note: If you don't have administrator permissions, you'll see "Authorized user".
• User's email at [MCM partner company]. This will only appear if you're in an MCM agreement. 
• Google. This means that an AdMob representative made the change.