Sure does seem to be taking a long time to approve ads lately

[Shepherd]

I think google has always said it could take up to a day to approve ads but it never used to seem to take that long. Nowadays, at least for us, it's taking all of a day and then some.

This is in a 10+ year old account that spends $1000's per day.

Wonder if they have cut staff here or if there are just way too many things they have to check out before letting an ad go live?

[aristotle]

When I started Adwords last year, my very first ad was approved instantly. I don't know why or how but that's what happened. It was a brand new account too, started from a $100 free coupon.

[Shepherd]

They used to be very quick to get ads approved, our latest ads are coming up on 20 hours "under review"...

[Shepherd]

36 hours to get an ad approved...

Sure glad it was not a timely, current events type of ad.

[300m]

Gets even worse when you have a policy violation that suspends the account. Turns out in some cases if that happens they are forcing all ads in the account to get approved. I have thousands of ads, been waiting since Friday to get this moved through.