About Ad Strength for responsive display ads

Ad Strength shows you how well an ad creative is configured vs our best practices. A higher ad strength will help to maximize the performance of your ad. In Google Ads, Ad Strength can be found in the ad creation editor. Improve your ad strength by adding more assets and diverse content.

Ad Strength has three components: the overall rating, a specific next step that can improve the strength of the ad and progress indicators by asset. The rating ranges from ‘Incomplete’ to ‘Excellent.’

Benefits of Ad Strength

Responsive display ads perform best when you add many unique creative assets. This enables the creative optimization to test many ad variations and, ultimately, deliver the most relevant ad to every user.

Ad Strength also features asset quality parameters to help ensure that your assets are high quality.

Using Ad Strength during ad creation

Ad Strength’s overall rating of ”Poor”, “Average”, “Good”, or “Excellent” will adapt to your actions during ad creation and editing. You’ll see the “Incomplete” rating if you don’t include the minimum requirements for an ad, which is 2 headlines and 1 description.

The rating will change as you progress through ad creation and follow the best practices listed. If you go through all of the steps indicated in the Ad Strength progress menu (beside the ad rating), and add a variety of strong assets, your ad rating will be “Excellent”.

Using Ad Strength to improve performance of existing ads

For ads that you’re ready to edit, you can click through Ad Strength prompts to see which actions you can take to improve ad performance by adding assets. These are some of the following guidance prompts you may see:

  • Get your ad to fit anywhere. Add at least 1 square image.
  • Add some images to make your ad stand out.
  • Enter more unique headlines. Your headlines are too similar to each other.
  • Add some descriptions.
  • Enter more unique descriptions. Your descriptions are too similar to your headlines.
  • Your ad set up is excellent! Now, try replacing low-performing assets to improve overall performance.

Was this helpful?

How can we improve it?
true
Achieve your advertising goals today!

Attend our Performance Max Masterclass, a livestream workshop session bringing together industry and Google ads PMax experts.

Register now

Search
Clear search
Close search
Google apps
Main menu
15600818350582368525
true
Search Help Center
true
true
true
true
true
73067
false
false
false