Google creative status code 15: Creative filtered because one or more detected product categories were excluded in the bid request
What Google creative status says
Creative filtered because one or more detected product categories were excluded in the bid request
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 15 is this status.
What was checked
Google compared the creative on the bid with the constraint named in this status.
What to change
Status 15 names the constraint. It clears when that condition is gone. Bidding the same creative again returns 15.
Related
- All Google creative status codes
- The OpenRTB loss reason table
- Google Authorized Buyers creative status codes
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- Google creative status code 17: Creative filtered because one or more declared vendors were excluded in the bid request