Multi-platform: Editorial reviews and ad approval

Learn about editorial reviews and what to do if you have disapproved ads in Microsoft Advertising.

Note

Not everyone has this feature yet. If you don't, don't worry—it's coming soon!

The editorial review

After you submit an ad in Microsoft Advertising, the ad text, media, and links must pass an editorial review to help ensure that your ads are relevant, clear, accurate, and appropriate for potential customers. Familiarizing yourself with advertising policies can make the approval process much quicker.

Each advertising platform approves or disapproves your ads based on their advertising policies:

Search: Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising
Social: Facebook Ads for ads on Facebook and Instagram

Type of ad	Results of editorial reviews	What happens
Search	Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising approve your ad.	Your ad becomes active and is eligible to run on both platforms.
Search	Microsoft Advertising approves your ad, but Google Ads disapproves your ad.	Your ad receives a Partially disapproved status in Microsoft Advertising. The ad is eligible to run on Microsoft Advertising, but not eligible to run on Google while it's disapproved.
Search	Google Ads approves your ad, but Microsoft Advertising disapproves your ad.	Your ad receives a Partially disapproved status in Microsoft Advertising. The ad is eligible to run on Google, but not eligible to run on Microsoft Advertising while it's disapproved.
Search	Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising disapprove your ad.	Your ad receives a Disapproved status in Microsoft Advertising and won't run on either platform.
Social	Facebook Ads approves your ad.	Your ad becomes active and is eligible to run on Facebook and Instagram.
Social	Facebook Ads disapproves your ad.	Your ad receives a Disapproved status in Microsoft Advertising and won't run on Facebook or Instagram while it's disapproved.

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The editorial status can be found on the Ads page in the Disapproved ads tile. This tile is only shown if you have disapproved content. You can also find the status in the Ad preview tile for each campaign.
Editorial checks do not stop once an ad is live. There are ongoing reviews to help ensure a quality marketplace. For this reason, previously displayed ads may be disapproved.

Review the policy and disapproval reason

On the Ads page, select the campaign with disapproved ads.
On the Ad preview tile, find the disapproved ad, and select Disapproved.
Review the advertising platform that disapproved the ad and the policy violation.
Select the link to the policy and review the details of the policy violation.
- For Facebook Ads, the link takes you to FacebookAdvertising policies that apply to ads on Facebook and Instagram, where you can search for the specific policy that applies to your ad and review their standards.
- For Google Ads, the link takes you to Google Ads policies, where you can search for the specific policy that applies to your ad and review their standards.
- For Microsoft Advertising, the link takes you to the specific policy that applies to your ad. View all the Microsoft Advertising policies.

After you've reviewed the policy, you can edit your ad to comply with the policies or challenge the disapproval by requesting an exception. Your ad will go through the editorial review process again. Most reviews take less than a day, so you can check for the results after a day or two.

Challenge a disapproval

You can challenge the disapproval by requesting an exception. Your ad will go through the editorial review process again. Most reviews take less than a day, so you can check for the results after a day or two.

Facebook Ads for ads on Facebook and Instagram

If you review FacebookAdvertising policies and you believe your ad was disapproved in error, you can request an exception.

On the Ads page, select the campaign with disapproved ads.
On the Ad preview tile, find the disapproved ad and select Disapproved.
Select Request an exception. This link will take you to Facebook.
Follow the steps in Facebook to request an exception.

Google Ads

If you review Google Ads policies and you believe your ad was disapproved in error, contact Microsoft Advertising support to request an exception.

Microsoft Advertising

If you review Microsoft Advertising policies and you believe your ad was disapproved in error, you can request an exception. With the request, tell us why you believe the ad meets the policies or why the policy in question doesn't apply, and we'll review the ad again.

On the Ads page, select the campaign with disapproved ads.
On the Ad preview tile, find the disapproved ad and select Disapproved or Partially disapproved.
In the tooltip, select Request an exception.
In the Request an exception panel, enter the reason you want an exception and select Send request.