Google Rebrands AdWords To Google Ads After Almost 18 Years

Jun 27, 2018 - 7:24 am 11 by
Filed Under Google Ads

Google Ads Rebrand

Google has announced they are rebranding their 17+ year old brand money maker, AdWords, to simply Google Ads. Google launched AdWords back on October 23, 2000, almost 18 years ago, and was the driving force behind Google's profits and power. Now, Google wants to change the name from AdWords to Google Ads to simplify things.

Google said "we are simplifying our products for advertisers and publishers of all sizes so they can more easily reach consumers anywhere, at any moment and on any channel."

  • AdWords is now Google Ads
  • DoubleClick advertiser products and Google Analytics 360 Suite are now Google Marketing Platform
  • DoubleClick publisher products and DoubleClick Ad Exchange is now Google Ad Manager

I see no mention of Google AdSense, but I suspect that might fall under Google Ad Manager?

Google Ads Rebrand

Starting July 24, 2018, you will begin to see the new Google Ads brand, including the new name and logo, reflected in the product interface, help center, billing documents, and other locations. The URL you use to access your account will be changing from adwords.google.com to ads.google.com, and the help center will change from support.google.com/adwords to support.google.com/google-ads.

I hope they do their site migration correctly. :)

In any event, I'd say I saw this coming in the Google+ era when Google named their AdWords channel Google Ads, the URL is still https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleAds and this was a long time ago.

Anyway, I suspect this is not a huge deal, it is just a brand change - nothing else is changing much with this. But 18 years of branding for AdWords is now gone, 22 years for DoubleClick - gone.

There is a lot more coverage of this on Techmeme if you want to read other perspectives.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
- YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2025

Jul 18, 2025 - 10:00 am
Search Video Recaps

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June Core Update Done, Local Ranking Update, AI Mode Updates & AI Calling Businesses

Jul 18, 2025 - 8:01 am
Google Maps

New Google Business Profile Check Edit Status

Jul 18, 2025 - 7:51 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google: Login Service Pages Are Hard To Rank In Search

Jul 18, 2025 - 7:41 am
Google

Google AI Overviews For Movie Queries

Jul 18, 2025 - 7:31 am
Google Ads

Google Ads Rolling Out Smart Bidding Exploration To Some Advertisers

Jul 18, 2025 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Googlers Watching World Cup In Conference Room