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Ad platforms run their own rulebooks on top of federal law. Google organises its advertising policies into prohibited content, prohibited practices, restricted content and features, and editorial and technical requirements. Misrepresentation covers ads or landing pages that exclude relevant product information or mislead about a business, and enforcement runs from disapproving individual ads to suspending the account, with appeals available at each step.

Restricted categories matter for whole sectors of US small business. Healthcare, financial services, alcohol, gambling and political advertising are each allowed only under conditions, sometimes only with platform certification. Before signing with an agency in a restricted category, ask whether they have run accounts in it and what certification the account will need. A suspension in a regulated vertical can take weeks to resolve and there is no arbitration you can escalate to.

An ad account accumulates value: conversion history that feeds automated bidding, audience lists, historical quality signals and a record of what failed. Rebuilding from scratch costs weeks of learning-phase spend. That makes ownership the most consequential clause in a PPC contract and the one most often left out.

Create the accounts yourself under your own billing, then grant the agency access through their manager account. Keep administrator rights on the analytics property and on the tag container. Ask for the audiences and conversion definitions to be documented. If an agency insists on running you inside their own account, ask exactly what you will be given on exit and get the answer in the agreement rather than in an email.

Platform automation now handles much of the bidding that agencies once charged for, which changes what you should be paying for. The remaining value is in account structure, creative, feed quality, landing pages, offer testing and the discipline to read search term reports. Ask a prospective agency what they do that automation does not, and listen for a specific answer.

Bringing media buying in-house makes sense once spend is large enough that the percentage fee exceeds a salary, and where the product needs constant creative refresh. The usual halfway house is an in-house owner of the account with an outside specialist on quarterly review. Whichever route, the account and its history stay with the business.