User role permissions control what users assigned to a user role can see and do in your network. Filter the list of permissions, below, to learn how each permission affects users.
Some permissions control features that might not be available in your network. Also, some permissions are dependent on others. A warning is displayed in Ad Manager when a permission dependency exists. All warnings must be resolved before you can save your changes.
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Trafficking and delivery
Edit "Ads Personalization" settings
View
Controls whether a user can edit this
setting in
Admin and then
Global settings and then
Network settings.
View and resolve policy violations
View
Controls access to the
Admin and then
Policy center sidebar tab.
View DMP Links
View sites
View
Controls read/write access to the
Inventory and then
Sites sidebar link.
Manage People
Secure signal sharing
View and edit
To view and edit
Secure signal sharing, turn on the permissions Edit companies and Edit contacts.
Edit company credit status
Receive API usage notifications
View unified video rules
Define and deliver ads
Ad exclusion rules
View
Allows users to view all existing
ad exclusions set up in the "Protections" section of Ad Manager.
Create and edit
Allows users to create new or edit existing
ad exclusions in the "Protections" section of Ad Manager. These can be used to block ads trafficked in Ad Manager from certain inventory.
Ad units, placements, labels, and key-values
View
Allows users to view ad units and placements in line item targeting, creative-level targeting, and the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager. Includes labels.
Edit
Allows users to edit ad units, placements, and key-values in the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager. This permission is granted implicitly if user can edit line item and forecasts but does not show as selected in the user interface. Line item or creative-level targeting for these objects can be edited even without this permission, as long as the user has permission to edit line items and/or creatives.
Edit values
Allows users to edit the values for keys defined in the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager.
Audience segments
View
Allows users to view the settings for
audience segments in Ad Manager. Segments are available for line item targeting, even without this view allowed.
Audience segments (third-party)
View
Allows users to view the list of all pending third-party audience segment approvals in Ad Manager.
Edit
Allows users to edit the approval status for any third-party audience segment in Ad Manager.
Bidders
To view and edit bidder groups, enable the View and Edit bidders permissions.
View
Lets users view bidders for all demand channels in Ad Manager, such as on the "Bidders" page under "Delivery."
By default, admin, executive, trafficker, salesperson, and sales manager include this permission.
Edit
Lets users edit bidders for all demand channels in Ad Manager, such as on the "Bidders" page under "Delivery."
By default, admin trafficker, salesperson, and sales manager include this permission.
Campaign Manager 360 tags
View
Allows users to view Campaign Manager 360 tags and associated campaign details in either the "Creatives" page of the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager, or the "Tags" section.
Approve
Allows users to edit Campaign Manager 360 tags in either the "Creatives" page of the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager, or the "Tags" section.
Creatives
View
Allows users to view the settings of any creative, either within a line item, or on the "Creatives" page of the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Edit
Allows users to edit the settings of any creative, either within a line item, or on the "Creatives" page of the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Enable
Allows users to activate or deactivate creatives associated with a line item, but not edit any of the creative's settings.
Creatives for Ad Exchange
Creative templates
Edit
Allows users to edit the settings for creative templates on the "Creatives" and then "Creative templates" page of the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager. Creative templates can still be used to traffic creatives without this permission.
Experiments for Ad Exchange
View
Allows users to view all Ad Exchange experiments in the "Inventory rules" page of the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager.
Edit
Allows users to edit all Ad Exchange experiments in the "Inventory rules" page of the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager.
Forecast adjustments
View
Allows users to view the settings for all forecast adjustments in the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager. Forecast adjustments still apply to every line item forecast, even for users without this view allowed.
Edit
Allows users to edit the settings for any forecast adjustment in the "Inventory" section of Ad Manager. It gives implicit permission to the user to edit or modify key-values, however, the key-value permission doesn't show as selected in the user interface.
Orders and line items
View
Allows users to view orders and line items they've created, or to which they're assigned as salesperson or trafficker, in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
If their network uses teams, they must be assigned to the team associated with the order before they can access.
Edit approved
Allows users to edit order and line item settings, for orders that have already been approved in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager. It gives implicit permission to the user to edit or modify key-values, however, the key-value permission doesn't show as selected in the user interface.
Edit unapproved
Allows users to edit order and line item settings for new and/or unapproved orders, and submit new orders for approval, in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Edit delivery options
Allows users to edit the priority and delivery rate for line items in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.*
Pause and archive
Allows users to pause, un-pause, archive, and unarchive orders and line items in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.*
Overbook standard
Allows users to overbook line items of the standard line item type in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.*
Overbook sponsorship
Allows users to overbook line items of the sponsorship line item type in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.*
Approve
Allows users to approve and reject all orders and line items in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Forecast
Allows users to run availability forecasts on orders and line items in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Enable
Allows users to activate and deactivate orders and line items in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
* Applies only to orders and line items that the user has permission to edit (either approved or unapproved).
Yield groups
View
Allows users to view the settings for all
yield groups in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Edit
Allows users to edit the settings for any
yield groups in the "Delivery" section of Ad Manager.
Policy and protections
Privacy & messaging
EU user consent & US states privacy settings
Policy violations for creatives
Policy violations for content
View and resolve
Allows users to view and
resolve site content violations from the "Policy" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager and receive policy violation emails.
Protections
View
Allows users to view the protections settings in the "Protections" section of Ad Manager.
Edit direct
Allows users to
edit the protections settings for advertisers, brands, custom labels, and competitive protections, in the "Protections" section of Ad Manager.
Edit indirect
Allows users to
edit the protections settings for general categories, sensitive categories, restricted categories, ad technologies, advertiser URLs, cookies and data uses, and network-level protections, in the "Protections" section of Ad Manager.
Reports
Ad Manager reports
View and create
Allows users to view and
create reports for Ad Manager delivery in the "Reports" section of Ad Manager, and view those that have been shared with them. This permission also allows access to the
Ad Manager Home workspaces.
Opportunities reports
Sales
Sales proposals
View
Allows users to view the
sales proposals they've created in the "Proposals" page of the "Sales" section of Ad Manager.
Edit
Allows users to update the
sales proposals they've created in the "Proposals" page of the "Sales" section of Ad Manager.
Buyer sales proposals
Negotiate proposals
User network settings
Activities
View
Allows users to view existing activities and activity groups on the "Activity groups" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Ads.txt
Audience Extension
Edit
Allows users to edit the "Linked accounts" in the "Global settings" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager to
share audience segments with Ad Exchange or Display & Video 360.
Billing setup
Access payments interface
Edit
Lets users view and edit settings and information related to payments from Google under the "Payments" section of Ad Manager. Note: This permission was previously part of the "Access Ad Exchange Interface" permission.
Change history
View
Allows users to view the network-level change history from the "Change history" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager, to see most changes to orders, line items, creatives, custom fields, key-values, Inventory rules, audience segments, users, and roles.
All users, regardless of permissions can still see the change history of an item in its context.
Companies & contacts
View
Allows users to view all companies and contacts from the "Companies" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Currency
View
Allows users to
view currency settings in the "Global settings" and then "Network settings" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Custom fields
Create and edit
Allows users to
create and edit custom fields on the "Global settings" and then "Custom fields" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Data transfer
Modify data transfer fields
Lets users
edit data transfer settings on the "Reports" and then "Data transfer" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Google Data Studio
View and share data
Allows users to share Ad Manager data with Google Data Studio from the "Global settings" and then "Network settings" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager to view visualization reports in Data Studio.
Labels
Create and edit
Allows users to
create and manage labels from the "Inventory"
and then![]()
"Labels" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Line item templates
View
Allows users to view line item template settings on the "Line item templates" and then "Delivery" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Personalized ads
Enable
Allows users to enable
Personalized ads from the "Network settings" page of the "Global settings" section in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Users
View
Allows users to view all users, user roles, and teams on the "Access & authorization" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Impersonation
View
Allows users to
view the interface as another user on their network by clicking "impersonate" from the "Access & authorization" page in the "Admin" section of Ad Manager.
Video
Ad rules
View
Allows users to view existing video ad rules on the "Ad rules" page in the "Video" section of Ad Manager.
Content
View
Allows users to view all of the video content imported to their network on the "Content" page in the "Video" section of Ad Manager.
Content sources
View
Allows users to view existing video content sources and their configurations on the "Content sources" page in the "Video" section of Ad Manager.
Manage legal
Sign and accept contracts
View
Required to view and sign Ad Manager order forms and contracts.
We only check this for contracts when completing billing signup, that is, moving from free to paid.
Note: We don't check this for signing contract addendums, for example, click-to-accept features.