The week of October 19, 2020, Google will update its Platforms policies for Personalized advertising to introduce new targeting restrictions. In an effort to improve inclusivity for users disproportionately affected by societal biases; housing, employment, and credit products or services can no longer be targeted to audiences based on gender, age, parental status, marital status, or ZIP code.
Examples of impacted products or services include, but are not limited to:
- Housing: Housing listing sites, individual houses for sale or rental, real estate services
- Employment: Ads for jobs, job recruitment sites, job listing sites
- Credit: Credit cards, loans including home loans, car loans, appliance loans, short-term loans
This policy change will apply in the U.S. and Canada only. All advertisers using personalized ads to target audiences in the U.S. and Canada must comply with these changes.
What this means for advertisers promoting housing, employment, or credit
- Potentially impacted advertisers will receive notifications in their Display & Video 360 account prompting them to acknowledge these policy changes and to agree to comply with relevant local laws. Advertisers who have not acknowledged these changes when the policy goes into effect on October 19 will be unable to create any new campaigns until they click to accept the changes.
- Additionally when the policy goes into effect on October 19, advertisers promoting housing, employment, or credit products or services will no longer be able to target audiences based on gender, age, parental status, marital status, or ZIP code. Any existing campaigns featuring housing, employment, or credit products or services that target newly restricted audiences will no longer be eligible to serve. Advertisers should update their campaigns before this policy goes into effect to ensure they aren’t negatively impacted.
For more information about the policy and how to acknowledge these policy changes in your account, refer to frequently asked questions in the Advertising Policies Help Center.
Posted on August 18, 2020