What is Google Ad Manager?
A complete platform to grow ad revenue and protect your brand wherever people are watching, playing or engaging. Ad Manager can help you manage your ad business and grow your revenue in any industry. Ad Manager offers robust tools that scale to the needs of growing businesses.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Google Ad Manager?
Pros
- Reliable
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Feature Ratings
Advertisement Reporting
Advertisement Placement
Role-Based Access Controls
Data Management Platform Capabilities
Audience Identification
Supply-Side Capabilities
Audience Segmentation
MarTech Ecosystem integration
Demand-Side Capabilities
Advertisement Content Curation
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Google Ad Manager Reviews
Raghava S.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
Google ads serves High intent users with ROI
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Ad Manager from other similar products?
High intent users on search ads have no match with any other adtech conversion rates Different offerings with diverse type of audience on YouTube discovery and UAC is additional benefit to tap in to selected quality users
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Vast traffic and diverse range of audience
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited reporting visibility on pmax and UAC campaigns
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
UAC campaigns need to get audience level reporting features in more granular level Currently competition search share is with very limited visibility need to expand that
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Fair
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Appreciates Incumbent Status
Darshan S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2024
Awesome and Reliable
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Ad Manager from other similar products?
It easy to use interface makes it stand out from other industry products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Interface is very user friendly and easy to learn for a new user.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can't think of anything as of now.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a google product. Go for it without thinking twice.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Client's Interest First
- Includes Product Enhancements
Saniya s.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2026
Can't match programmatic yield optimization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Ad Manager from other similar products?
When it came to looking for programmatic solutions such as SSPs, we opted for Google Ad Manager 360 as our ad server, thus consolidating our direct sales and open auction programmatic inventory in one platform. With one set of pricing rules, it's easier to ensure that sow floors are not compromised while maximizing the overall programmatic fill rate for our Gurgaon based yield management team. This enterprise integration resulted in a massive decrease in ad latency for our regional news portals, versus working with any third party header biddingwrapper.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The native integration of GA4 enables us to connect real-time CPM yields with user engagement metrics in a single dashboard. In addition, the key-value targeting architecture can be used for complex dynamic inventory allocation systems with sub-millisecond processing time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The interface experiences significant latency when making custom multi dimensional reports on apiece network that is not very fast.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This platform is recommended for Tier 1 Digital publishers and Enterprise Media networks that need to monetize large numbers of volumes of inventory. Given the sizeable learning curve, small independent content creators and niche sites should avoid it.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Client Friendly Policies
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing