About your Google Ads account limits

Your account has maximum limits on areas such as the maximum number of keywords that you can have. While you'll probably never notice them, bear these limits in mind when planning your future advertising efforts.

This article lists limits for several key areas of your Google Ads account.

Brand list limits

10,000 brand lists per account
10 brand lists per campaign
5,000 brands per brand list

Campaign and ad group limits

10,000 campaigns per account (includes active and paused)
20,000 ad groups per campaign
- Note: Local campaigns and App campaigns are limited to 100 ad groups per campaign.
20,000 ad group targeting items per ad group
100 Smart Shopping campaigns per account

Ad limits

300 image or gallery ads per ad group
50 active text and non-image/gallery ads per ad group
Four million ads per account (includes active and paused)
three enabled responsive search ads per ad group
1,000 listing groups per asset group (Performance Max)
5,000 product groups

Targeting limits

Five million ad group targeting items per account (such as keywords, placements and audience lists)
One million campaign targeting items per account (such as location targets and campaign-level negative keywords)
10,500 location targets per campaign, targeted and excluded, including up to 500 proximity targets per campaign
20 shared placement exclusion lists per account, with a maximum of 65,000 exclusions per list
65,000 account-level placement exclusions per account (separate from your list, campaign and ad group exclusions)
128,000 total placement exclusions per ad group (this includes the total of your account, list, campaign and ad group exclusions)
Three placement exclusion lists for each manager account, with a maximum of 250,000 exclusions per list
11,000 shared budgets per account
25,000 Dynamic Search Ad targets per account

Note: In Google Ads UI, at most 5,000 placements can be added at once. You can add more placements (limits above) but you can't add more than 5,000 placements in one go.

Negative keyword limits

20 shared negative keyword lists per account
5,000 keywords per negative keyword list
10,000 negative keywords per campaign
A maximum of 5,000 negative keywords can be applied to Display Network and video campaigns

Limits for business data and feeds

Five million rows or feed items per account for dynamic ads, ETA ad customisers and assets
40 responsive search ads (RSA) ad customiser attributes
100 user-generated feeds or business data sets per account
3,000 bytes per attribute (roughly 750–3,000 characters depending on the byte size of the character)

Ad asset limits

250,000 ad group-level assets per account
50,000 campaign-level assets per account
10,000 ad group-level assets per campaign

Example: Let's say that you have one campaign with an asset containing eight sitelinks. Then you add these same sitelinks to another campaign and also to 10 ad groups in a third campaign. Now, your account has eight feed items, two campaign-level assets and 10 ad group-level assets.

Manager account limits

All manager accounts can be linked to a maximum of 85,000 non-manager accounts, including both active and inactive or cancelled accounts. The maximum number of active non-manager accounts your top-level manager account can be linked to is based on your accounts’ total monthly spend over the last 12 months. Learn more about account limits for manager accounts.

Account linking limits

500 Google Ads accounts per Merchant Center account

Additional Limits

Notwithstanding the above, certain combinations of campaign or creative structures within these limits or the rate and frequency at which they are created or updated may overload our systems and processes thereby interfering (or attempting to interfere) with the functioning of our programmes.

For example:

Generating a large number of ad groups or campaigns with few creatives or keywords in each
Generating responsive ads with significant combinations of creative content, assets, destinations or keywords
Updating campaign and creative attributes, such as targeting URLs, frequently or with a high rate of change

Note: If advertisers cause an overload on our ads systems or processes, a notification will be issued to them with specific details to remediate the issue. In the meantime, Google may take actions necessary to maintain the stability of our system, such as throttling. Google won’t suspend an advertiser’s account without seven days’ prior notice.

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