Pause Google Ads campaign

<Info>This API is in beta. Endpoints, fields, and behavior may still change, so avoid depending on it in production.</Info>

Stops a campaign serving. It keeps its settings and its history, and Resume campaign starts it again.

Pausing takes effect within a few minutes on Google's side. Spend already incurred today is still billed. Pausing an already-paused campaign succeeds and changes nothing.

Unlike resuming, this needs no payment method on file, because it only reduces spend.

<Note>This endpoint accepts a personal API key. Workspace API keys are not authorized for it and are rejected with a 403.</Note>

<Warning>A 409 means the change may or may not have been applied. The request to Google Ads timed out after it was sent. Read the campaign back with Get campaign before retrying, or you can end up applying it twice.</Warning>

<Warning>The response includes fields beyond the ones documented here. Don't rely on undocumented response fields, as they can change at any time.</Warning>

{
  "status": "paused"
}