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Create a Shopping campaign
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Summary
After you've successfully linked a Merchant Center account to your
Google Ads account, you can create Shopping
campaigns.
Shopping campaigns serve ads with an image, title, price, store name, and more.
You can create a Shopping campaign in the Google Ads UI or automatically
with the Google Ads API.
This page explains how you can create a new Shopping campaign with products from
a linked merchant account.
Manual steps
- Link Merchant Center to Google Ads.
- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
- Click + NEW CAMPAIGN.
- Select a campaign goal and the type of campaign you want to run (Shopping or
Performance Max).
Select your Merchant Center account and the country where your products are
sold, then click CONTINUE.
You can't change the Merchant Center account or country later—you'll
have to create a new campaign with different settings for a different
account or country.
Select a campaign subtype, for example, Smart Shopping.
Enter a name for your campaign and configure other settings, like your
bidding strategy, budget, and campaign priority.
Click SAVE & CONTINUE.
Choose a product group to use for your campaign.
Upload asset information for responsive display ads. This step is required
in the Merchant Center UI.
If you don't see all your Merchant Center products in Google Ads, make sure
you've uploaded them to the feed for the same Country of Sale you selected
in Google Ads.
Automatic steps
- Link Merchant Center to Google Ads.
- Set the
AdvertisingChannelType to SHOPPING.
- Set the campaign's
advertising_channel_sub_type to SHOPPING_SMART_ADS.
Create a ShoppingSetting object with the following required fields:
merchant_idsales_country
You can't change the merchant_id or sales_country for your campaign
later. You need to create a new campaign with different settings for
a different account or country.
Add the ShoppingSetting to your campaign.
Set a campaign-level bid strategy.
Create a new campaign budget (only non-shared budgets).
See the Shopping campaign sample and Create a new Shopping Campaign for
more information.
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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