Google creative status code 149: The click tracking URL is too short to be a valid URL

Google creative statusReturned in ${CREATIVE_STATUS_CODE}

What Google creative status says

The click tracking URL is too short to be a valid URL

Google returns this number in ${CREATIVE_STATUS_CODE} on the loss notice. It is not an ${AUCTION_LOSS} value. A search for Google creative status code 149 is this status.

What was checked

Google compared the creative on the bid with the constraint named in this status.

What to change

Status 149 names the constraint. It clears when that condition is gone. Bidding the same creative again returns 149.

Related