Publish and unpublish messages

When you first create a message, its status is set to "Draft" by default. Messages you want to display to users need to be published to change their status to "Published." Unpublishing a message will stop it from being shown to users by resetting the status to "Draft."

Check the status of your messages

Check the status of your existing messages by clicking Privacy & messaging, then clicking Manage on one of the message type cards. The status is displayed in the "Status" column, and the "Publish" column displays the corresponding toggle, which you can click to change the status.

Publishing a message

Complete the following steps to publish a message:

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Click Privacy & messaging.
3. Click Manage on one of the message type cards on the Privacy & messaging page.
4. In the list of messages, click Unpublish in the row with the draft message you want to be shown to eligible users. A confirmation message is displayed.
5. Click Yes. The toggle changes to Publish and the message status changes to "Published". It may take up to 10 minutes before eligible users see the message.

Unpublishing a message

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Click Privacy & messaging.
3. Click Manage on one of the message type cards on the Privacy & messaging page.
4. In the list of messages, click Publish in the row with the message that you want to stop showing to users. A confirmation message is displayed.
5. Click Yes. The toggle changes to Unpublish and the message status changes to "Draft." It may take up to 10 minutes before users stop seeing the message.