Google Ad Manager outage affects international news platforms

Google Ad Manager, an ad management platform that many international websites and businesses depend on to monetise and display ads, faced a three-hour long outage last week. 

International news platforms such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times were severely affected by this outage, with one source citing that these businesses lost about thousands of dollars an hour in an important holiday revenue period. 

In a follow-up to the outage, Google publicly announced an apology in a tweet, stating that the matter had been resolved and regular services has been restored for everyone.