January 2019

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Highlights

Preferred Deals moving into Ad Manager From 10/31 onwards, legacy Preferred Deals that were not created in Google Ad Manager will become read-only and non-modifiable by the buyer or seller. Additionally, all legacy Preferred Deals will become inactive on 3/31/19.   Sizeless migration Having completed the migration of all new creatives to sizeless creative verification, migration of existing creatives has begun. Creative IDs that have been in our system since before we began the sizeless migration last fall will begin to be migrated to sizeless at the rate of 5% per week until we are complete to ensure a smooth transition.

UI updates

New "List View" in My Deals and auction Packages interfaces

A cleaner list view has been introduced for deals in the marketplace which includes a deals progress column. Manage deals, Auction packages

Other updates

Pharmaceutical, Gambling, and Block Override help content updated

Pharmaceutical product policy, Gambling and games policy, and Publisher block override for deals