Google creative status code 86: Creative filtered because one or more undeclared restricted_category fields were detected

Google creative statusReturned in ${CREATIVE_STATUS_CODE}

What Google creative status says

Creative filtered because one or more undeclared restricted_category fields were detected

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 86 is this status.

What was checked

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

What to change

Status 86 names the constraint. It clears when that condition is gone. Bidding the same creative again returns 86.

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