{"id":12778,"date":"2026-04-22T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbceurasia.com\/en\/?p=12778"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:15:44","slug":"google-blocked-over-270m-gambling-ads-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbceurasia.com\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/google-blocked-over-270m-gambling-ads-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Blocked Over 270m Gambling Ads in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Google<\/strong> has banned hundreds of millions of gambling adverts for breaching its rules, with the tech giant stating that its safety teams have been \u2018working round the clock\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its efforts, however, Google still finds itself in regulatory crosshairs regarding illegal gambling across multiple markets, alongside some of its fellow Big Tech players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alphabet\u2019s IT<\/strong> and tech firm has been using its <strong>Gemini AI<\/strong> tool to detect what it calls \u2018bad ads\u2019 \u2013 advertisements displayed via the Google Ads platform which break its rules and standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, it blocked or removed 8.3 billion ads, equating to around one banned advert for every person on the planet (based on the April 2026 estimate from Worldmeter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gambling and games consisted of the eighth-largest category of all banned adverts, with over 270.7 million ads blocked or removed in 2025. The sector was also the third largest category for restricted ads at 123.9 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur teams have long used advanced AI to identify and stop scammers, and Gemini takes that work even further,\u201d said <strong>Keerat Sharma<\/strong>, Google\u2019s Vice President and General Manager of Ads Privacy and Safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur models analyse hundreds of billions of signals \u2013 including account age, behavioural cues and campaign patterns \u2013 to stop threats before they reach people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnlike earlier keyword-based systems, our latest models better understand intent, helping us spot malicious content and preemptively block it, even when it\u2019s designed to evade detection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sbceurasia\">Telegram channel!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has banned hundreds of millions of gambling adverts for breaching its rules, with the tech giant stating that its safety teams have been \u2018working round the clock\u2019. 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