About mobile ads

Reach your customers whilst they're on the move with ads on mobile devices. This article explains how to show your ads on different mobile devices, like mobile phones and tablets.

Before you begin

To learn the basics of text ad creation, read about how to Create a new text ad.

Where mobile ads can appear

On mobile phones or tablets

Text ads
Image ads
App promotion ads
HTML 5 ads built with Google Web Designer

Within apps on mobile phones or tablets

Text ads
Image ads
App promotion ads
Image app promotion ads
Video app promotion ads
TrueView for app promotion ads
Responsive display ads

Call-only ads are only shown on devices that can make calls

Note

All new campaigns and text ads are automatically eligible to run on most mobile devices. If you’d like to avoid showing ads on certain devices, you can set a negative device bid adjustment.

Types of mobile ads

Mobile image ad requirements

To create image ads, your campaign must be opted into the Display Network, either as 'Display Network only' or 'Search Network with Display Select'. If you're using 3rd-party ad serving to create ads, make sure that you use the accepted sizes for images and follow the requirements:

Mobile phone: 320 x 50, 300 x 250, 336 x 280 Interstitial
Tablet: 300 x 250, 728 x 90, 468 x 60, 336 x 280 Interstitial

Best practices

Read the Google Best Practices guide about growing your business with mobile ads. Topics include:

Mobile ad creatives and assets in Google Ads
Measuring the value of mobile ads
Mobile advertising without mobile-optimised sites

Create Effective Mobile Ads: Google Best Practices

Mobile devices

Mobile devices are products that people use while they’re on the go. New mobile devices are constantly being released, so we don’t have a comprehensive list of all of them. However, here are a few common types:

Mobile phones

“Mobile phones” usually refers to smartphones that have a screen smaller than 7 inches. Bear in mind that in Google Ads, mobile phones are sometimes referred to as “mobile devices” or “mobile devices with full browsers”.

Tablets

Tablets resemble both mobile phones and computers in many ways. But unlike mobile phones, tablets typically have a screen that’s seven inches or larger. And unlike computers, tablets have touch screens. Bear in mind that in Google Ads, “Mobile devices” is sometimes used to refer to mobile phones and tablets.

Wearables

Wearables – like smartwatches – are devices that people can use to connect to the internet on the go but are typically smaller than mobile phones. At this time, Google Ads doesn’t show ads on devices that don’t have a screen.

Only show ads on desktop computers

Here's how to change your campaign settings to show ads only on desktop computers:

In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
Click the Insights and reports drop-down in the section menu.
Click When and where ads showed.
At the top bar, select Devices.
In the 'Device' column, find rows that say 'Mobile phones'.
Click the 'Bid adj.' cell for your desired campaign or ad group.
Choose Decrease from the drop-down menu.
Enter 100 in the % field and click Save.

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