Free script to check for anomalies in campaign spending

Do you want to keep your finger on the pulse of your accounts, with zero effort? If so, this script might be worth your time.

Automatic Report – Anomalies in your campaign spending 

URL:
https://searchengineland.com/find-anomalies-in-your-campaign-spending-with-this-google-ads-script-304853

What it does: 
This script will let you check for unusual behavior in your account by finding campaigns that show significant changes in today’s spending compared to expected spending based on prior performance.

Why you’d care: 
There can be many reasons why campaign behavior changes drastically. Some of them can be due to changes in search behavior. Others can be caused by your competitors’ bidding. Others are caused by our own mistakes. Best be alerted on the spot.

Here’s some good news for those of you who are already familiar with making small changes to scripts: you can add some functions to the script to report anomalies in any of these metrics below. 

  • impressions
  • clicks
  • avg CPC
  • conversions
  • conversion rate
  • conversion value
  • CPA
  • ROAS

Happy scripting!

– Nils

Author: Nils Rooijmans

Google Ads Performance Architect with a passion for PPC Automation & AI, in particular via Google Ads Scripts.