r/googleads rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for Google Ads help, discussion, and information. The people posting here are advertisers, agencies, freelancers, and business owners who run paid campaigns and want answers or want to help others. It is a working room for practitioners, not a place to pitch them.

The rule that decides most outcomes is “Spam”, which bans posting threads of services or tools by agencies, freelancers, and contractors, and bans URL shorteners. “Low Quality Post” repeats the services and tools ban and also blocks tools or apps trying to survey the community. “No 'Dev/Founder Research' posts” is the one founders trip over most, because it bans asking for pain points, beta testers, or feedback on software or AI ideas, and the rule says you will just get banned for posting it. “Unapproved AMA” means any AMA thread needs moderator approval first. “Coupons” keeps coupon codes out of the sub. “Rude / Offensive” and “Offensive Language In Title” set the tone, so keep titles clean and succinct. “Personal Info” keeps non-public personal details out of posts. “Course Question” points course talk to the wiki. “Job / Career Type Posts” allows job ads only when your brand or agency is directly hiring, and bans ads looking for work or mentors.

A good post here is a genuine contribution to someone's advertising problem. Share a specific lesson from a campaign you ran, like what you changed and what happened to results. Ask a real question about targeting, bidding, or account structure that shows you are actually doing the work. If you have a tool or service, the rules say you cannot post a thread about it, so the respectful path is to be useful in comments and let people find you through your profile. If you want to host an AMA, message the moderators and get approval first.

Do not post threads about your service, tool, or agency, because “Spam” and “Low Quality Post” both cover that. Never use a URL shortener in a post or comment. Do not ask the community for pain points, beta testers, validation, or feedback on your app, tool, or AI idea, because “No 'Dev/Founder Research' posts” says you will get banned for it, survey link or not. Do not run a survey or a tool that tries to poll the community. Do not post coupon codes. Do not post an ad looking for work or mentors, and only post a job ad if your brand or agency is directly hiring. Do not use rude or offensive language, and keep your title clean. Do not share non-public personal info, and do not host an AMA without moderator approval.

The rule that got my attention is “No 'Dev/Founder Research' posts”, because it says you will just get banned, no warning, even if your whole pitch lives in the post text. That tells me the regulars here have been burned by tool builders mining them for ideas, so the trust bar is high. I also like that the spam rule has some personality to it, but the message behind the jokes is clear, this room exists for people doing the work, not selling to them.