PLAYBOOK
Weekly Account Change Digest
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PLAYBOOK CONTENT
Comprehensive weekly summary of everything that changed in my Google Ads account, who changed it, and how.
- Pull all changes from my Google Ads account from the past 7 days
- Group changes by how they were made:
- Manual changes (someone in the Google Ads UI or mobile app)
- API changes (third-party tools or scripts)
- Auto-applied by Google (recommendation subscriptions)
- Automated rules
- Group changes by category:
- Budget and bid changes (with old and new values)
- Keyword additions and removals (count and top examples)
- Ad copy and creative changes
- Audience and targeting modifications
- Campaign structure changes (new campaigns, paused campaigns)
- Highlight the top 5 most impactful changes based on spend affected
- Flag anything unusual:
- Changes made outside business hours
- Changes by unrecognized users
- Unusually high volume of changes on a single campaign
- Build the digest in a Google Sheet and email it to me with subject "Google Ads Weekly Change Digest - [DATE]"
- Schedule weekly execution every Monday morning