Ads disappear across the internet as Google Ad Manager goes down - Fortune

At 8:04 p.m. Eastern Standard time, Google posted that it was “investigating reports of an contented with Google Ad Manager.” While users tin get into the program, they are “seeing mistake messages, precocious latency and/or different unexpected behavior.”

Most importantly, ads aren’t going through, meaning users aren’t seeing ads connected the websites of companies that usage Google Ad Manager. “Ad Manager is not delivering ads for the affected users,” Google wrote successful its incidental report.  

Google did not stock immoderate accusation astir the grade of the outage successful its post, but users connected societal media speculated it whitethorn beryllium global, with customers successful the U.S., Canada and Japan reporting connected Twitter that Ad Manager wasn’t working.

Google Ad Manager is simply a digital marketplace where customers tin bargain and merchantability ads crossed aggregate networks. The work is mostly utilized by ample publishers who prosecute successful nonstop income to advertisement buyers. Over 80% of ample publishers accidental they usage Google Ad Manager to negociate their advertisement sales.

Google’s different advertisement services look to beryllium up and running. The hunt elephantine is not reporting issues with either AdSense oregon AdMob, its advertisement services devoted to smaller websites and mobile developers respectively.

Advertising is simply a large portion of Google’s business. Google earned $54.48 billion from advertisement income successful the 3rd 4th of this twelvemonth retired of a full gross of $69.09 billion.

Google did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.