How to cancel your AdSense account

To cancel your AdSense account permanently, you must be an account Administrator. Upon cancellation, you'll receive your final payment within approximately 90 days of the end of the month, provided that your account balance is greater than the cancellation threshold. Note that Google won't make payments for any earned balance that doesn't reach this threshold.

If you want to cancel an AdMob account that's associated with your AdSense account, see: Cancel your AdMob account.

Note: If you’d just like to temporarily suspend your participation in the AdSense Programme, you can do so at any time by removing the ad code from your pages. Your account will remain accessible should you decide to use AdSense again in the future.

Before you cancel your account

Please be aware of the following:

• Your AdSense ad code will stop working, so make sure that you've removed the ad code from all of your pages.
• If you've associated a Custom Search Engine with this AdSense account, the search will continue to work, but the ads will no longer be associated with this account. To earn revenue again, you'll need to create a new AdSense association.
• If you’ve given other people access to your account, they won't be able to sign up for their own AdSense accounts with email addresses that are still associated with your account, so make sure that you've removed the users from your account before cancellation.
• If your account balance is greater than the cancellation threshold, make sure that all holds are removed and your account is eligible to receive payments. Find out why your account may have a payment hold.
• If you want to save any report data for your records, you'll need to download your reports in comma separated values (CSV) format prior to cancelling your account.

Cancel your account

To cancel your account permanently:

1. Sign in to your AdSense account.
2. Click Account.
3. In the 'Account information' section, click cancel account.
   Note: If you don't see the link, it might be because you have an AdMob account linked with your AdSense account. You first need to cancel your AdMob account.
4. Review the information on the 'Cancel account' page:

   If your account meets all of the requirements to receive a final payment.

   1. Select your reason for cancelling from the drop-down list.
   2. Select the tick box to confirm that you have understood the information that we’ve provided, including the AdSense Terms and Conditions.
   3. Click Continue. We'll send a cancellation email to your contact email address.

   If your account doesn't meet all of the requirements to receive a final payment...

   • and your account balance is less than the cancellation threshold.

     1. Select the tick box to confirm that you have understood that you won't be paid any outstanding earnings.
     2. Select your reason for cancelling from the drop-down list.
     3. Select the tick box to confirm that you have understood the information that we’ve provided, including the AdSense Terms and Conditions.
     4. Click Continue. We'll send a cancellation email to your contact email address.

   • and your account balance is greater than the cancellation threshold.

     1. Fix the issues listed in the 'Requirements' section.
        You must fix the issues that are listed here. It's not possible for you to cancel your account and not be paid your outstanding earnings.
     2. Once you've fixed all the issues, restart the cancellation procedure from the beginning.
5. When you receive your cancellation email, click the link to complete the cancellation process.
   On the 'Account cancellation' page, a message is displayed telling you that your account has been successfully cancelled. Any remaining account Administrators will then be notified that the AdSense account associated with their Google Account has been cancelled.

Note: If you'd like to participate in AdSense again in the future, you'll need to submit a new application using an email address that's not associated with any previous AdSense account.