About daily budgets

Last updated: September 2024

When you create an ad campaign or an ad group, you can choose how you want to pay for it. If you choose a daily budget, this allows you to choose the maximum amount you are willing to spend on a campaign or ad group per day. You can set budgets for both campaigns and ad groups. One campaign can consist of several ad groups.


Note: Once you publish your campaign, you cannot change the budget type at the campaign or ad group level. Also, you will be unable to switch from a daily budget to a lifetime budget and vice versa.


Daily budget can be a great tool for cost control. While bidding is used for controlling the cost per result as the ad level, budgeting is used to control the overall costs for campaigns and ad groups.


The daily budget is the maximum amount you are willing to spend on a campaign or ad group per day. If you select daily budget for a campaign, you must select daily budget at the ad group level. If you select lifetime budget for a campaign, you can select either daily budget or lifetime budget at the ad group level.


Another type of daily budget is a dynamic daily budget. The dynamic daily budget is the daily budget you are willing to spend for the week. Learn more about dynamic daily budgets.


A minimum budget is required when setting both lifetime budgets and daily budgets in order to ensure the continuous delivery of your ad.


Here are the features of minimum budgets:

  • Campaign level minimum budget: For campaigns, both daily budgets and total budgets must exceed 50 USD.

  • Ad group level minimum budget: For ad groups, daily budgets must exceed 20 USD. Lifetime budgets will be calculated as the minimum daily budget (20 USD) × scheduled days.


For example: If delivery is scheduled for 31 days, the minimum budget for the ad group would be 20 USD × 31 days = 620 USD.