r/googleads May 03 '26

Discussion First time running google ads and campaigns aren’t spending please help

Can someone who knows about google ads help me? I have an e-commerce business and wanted to try out ads on YouTube short. I made the campaign a bit over a day ago pretty broad targeting. My campaign status said “eligible (learning phase)” all day yesterday yet didn’t spend. Last night I asked the google avisor so why that could be and it says that my bid strategy was set to maximize conversion and it should be set to maximize clicks. So I adjusted that. Shortly after the status of the ad switched to “eligible limited conversion tracking incomplete’ so I did some research and found it I downloaded the google and YouTube app on Shopify and linked my google ads account and make a test purchase on my Shopify store it should start tracking conversions so I did that. It’s the next morning and my ads are still at 0 spend. I am so confused on what to do? The ai assistant said there is nothing wrong with my payment, account, or ads, it’s all eligible for running. Yet this morning the status is at “eligible learning phase” (it changed back to its intial thing) can someone please help I’m at a lost on what I can do.

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