It is manual and challenging to detect YouTube channel placements which might be spam (low performance with high cost), and exclude them from future advertising. Google Ads does not currently provide enough granularity to identify all spam channels.

Ads Placement Excluder allows an advertiser, to define what their interpretation of a spam channel is, and it will leverage the Google Ads & YouTube APIs to automate identifying these placements, and exclude them from future advertising.

See architecture.md.

The solution provides a DataStudio dashboard to monitor the solution. See reporting.md for more information.

See deployment.md for information on how to deploy the solution and get started.

This is not an officially supported Google product.

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