{"id":1596,"date":"2026-04-20T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:43:21","slug":"avoid-audience-copy-paste-problems-in-google-ads-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/avoid-audience-copy-paste-problems-in-google-ads-editor","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Audience copy-paste problems in Google Ads Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Ads Editor can be a huge time-saver when managing Google Ads accounts. I cannot live without it and use it for many account editing tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copy-pasting Audiences between campaigns is one example that would take forever in the Google Ads UI. However, there&#8217;s a catch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You would expect that the associated settings of an Audience would be copied, right? Not so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the thing:<\/strong> when you copy an Audience with a targeting setting of &#8216;Observation&#8217; and paste it into another campaign,\u00a0the setting will automatically switch to &#8216;Targeting&#8217; if that is your default campaign setting. See below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1024x275.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1024x275.png 1024w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1200x322.png 1200w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png 1469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-1024x312.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-1024x312.png 1024w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-768x234.png 768w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-1200x365.png 1200w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1.png 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you know, adding an Audience to a campaign with the Targeting Setting set to &#8216;Targeting&#8217; narrows the reach of your ads to the specific Audience. Not good, when you just want to &#8220;observe&#8221; the performance of the Audience and\/or provide it as a signal to Google without dramatically impacting your reach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To fix this copy-paste issue in Editor, click into the Campaign (and\/or Ad group) and change the &#8216;Flexible reach&#8217; setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2.png 773w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-2-768x248.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope this helps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Nils<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Ads Editor can be a huge time-saver when managing Google Ads accounts. I cannot live without it and use it for many account editing tasks. Copy-pasting Audiences between campaigns is one example that would take forever in the Google Ads UI. However, there&#8217;s a catch. You would expect that the associated settings of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/avoid-audience-copy-paste-problems-in-google-ads-editor\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avoid Audience copy-paste problems in Google Ads Editor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-ads"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avoid Audience copy-paste problems in Google Ads Editor - Nils Rooijmans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nilsrooijmans.com\/daily\/avoid-audience-copy-paste-problems-in-google-ads-editor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Avoid Audience copy-paste problems in Google Ads Editor - Nils Rooijmans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google Ads Editor can be a huge time-saver when managing Google Ads accounts. 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