Google won't stop harassing me to raise my marketing spend on Google Ads

★★ signal-medium r/ppc · ↑ 175 · 💬 97 · 2025-12-15 · kw: hours every day · open on reddit ↗

Tool

Google Ads

Issue

Google Ads account holders receive 10+ unsolicited calls per day at all hours (3AM–6PM) from sales reps pressuring budget increases, despite multiple opt-out requests and dashboard settings changes.

Cost

unstated

Recommendation

Block incoming numbers (disputed); set meeting agenda requirements; escalate to growth partners instead (no consensus solution)

Date context

2025-12-15; issue described as ongoing pattern

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anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 · 2026-05-08

Body

Google calls unrelentingly to talk about "optimizing" my ads, which is fancy talk for increasing your budget. I have told each rep to stop calling me. I went into the Google Ads dashboard and opted out of them calling me, yet they cold call me sometimes 10 times a day asking me to increase my budget. I have told the reps multiple times I feel harassed by them and that this needs to stop. Nothing is working. I get phone calls at 3AM, 12PM, 6PM, etc etc. All hours of the day and night. Ridiculous.

Top comments (6)

[score=93] gold_and_diamond

Give them a project. Make it complicated but one that would help you. Tell them if they can guarantee results you’ll be able to raise your budget. You’ll never hear from them again.

[score=49] CryptedBinary

FYI - Google has been violating several telemarketing laws with their ad reps for a long time. You're going to see class actions for this stuff in the future. Make sure to keep records.

[score=27] QuantumWolf99

Mark their number as spam and block it... the rep team has zero authority over your account performance anyway, they're just salespeople with quotas hitting call metrics. I've had clients get harassed like this and the only solution that actually works is blocking the number entirely. Opting out in the dashboard does nothing because they route calls through different numbers and different teams ignore opt-out flags constantly.

[score=8] tswpoker1

Tell them if you want a meeting then they need to outline an agenda and send it beforehand. Or just ignore them and only speak to growth partners or partner support which isn't much better but at least you get a presentation telling you to spend more money. One call I just stopped the rep and said "I would love to get increase our spend but it is a set budget, we don't have unlimited funds like Google and can just recommend increasing money. Budget should be the last recommendation not the first." To which circled into "I thought conversions were valuable to your company?". Fuck their templated scripts.

[score=9] ChiefMustacheOfficer

I'm an admin contact on about 30 Google Ads accounts. I get 2 - 6 of these \*a day\*. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who the caller is.

[score=7] theppcdude

I manage 20+ Google Ads Accounts on our MCC and we reduced this significantly (almost no calls now) by blocking all numbers. They have a limited amount of numbers I think. Highly recommend.