Google creative status code 228: Ad rejected because bidder specified an unexpected billing ID when bidding on a deal.
What Google creative status says
Ad rejected because bidder specified an unexpected billing ID when bidding on a deal.
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 228 is this status.
What was checked
Google checked the deal id on the bid against the publisher's deal settings.
What to change
Bid a deal the publisher enabled for this exchange and this deal type. An open-auction bid on a deal-only request, or a blocklisted deal id, returns this status.
Related
- All Google creative status codes
- The OpenRTB loss reason table
- Google Authorized Buyers creative status codes
- Google creative status code 226: Ad filtered because the provided currency on the OpenRTB bid response is different from the bidding currency.
- Google creative status code 227: Ad filtered because it has been detected to contain at least one sensitive category that is disallowed on Multiplex ad slot.
- Google creative status code 229: Ad rejected because billable event rate adjustment computed from bid and payment doesn't match adjustment sent in bid request.
- Google creative status code 230: A provided ad load notification URL exceeded the maximum length.