Some paused ads are being displayed today

[Rehan]

I had some ads running earlier this week that were paused by Monday or Tuesday...but today I find that they're getting impressions and clicks again even though I haven't touched them since. These ads got no impressions yesterday, but today they're racking them up and generating some clicks as well. I did talk to a Google CSR and they're looking into it.

Has anyone else noticed this in their account(s) today?

[bwnbwn]

yes it looks like this morning I did but not now.

[SEMblahblah]

did u try using the "ads diagnostic tool"?

[NatronZero]

Rehan - wondering if these numbers also show up in reports, analytics, etc. and, more importantly, are these clicks credited?

[Rehan]

Yes, these numbers do show up in the reports. And yes, I was charged for the clicks.

Google replied today and said:

Any changes you made to your ad campaigns between April 14, 2008 and April 17, 2008 were not reflected between the hours of 5:00AM and 11:30AM (PST) on April 17, 2008. Because of this, you may have been incorrectly billed for traffic you received during that time.

(That's certainly odd behavior. But anyway...)

They're still looking into if/how much I should be credited for those clicks.