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This page answers the questions covered by the article The Google Ads Campaign Launch Schedule For 2026: Week-By-Week Playbook For The First 60 Days Without Wrecking The Learning Phase on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, a Google Ads campaign launch schedule is a week-by-week plan for the first 60 days that dictates what actions to take, what to avoid, and when to scale without disrupting the learning phase. The article recommends starting with Maximize Conversions without a target CPA, avoiding bid-strategy or structural changes and budget shifts of more than 20% during learning, making the first safe optimization pass in week 3, assessing a move to target CPA in week 4, and scaling only stable campaigns during days 30 to 60.
According to groas, a reset is triggered by changing the bid strategy, modifying target CPA or target ROAS by more than 15-20%, restructuring the campaign by adding or removing ad groups, making large budget changes of typically more than 20% in a single adjustment, and pausing the campaign for an extended period. The article recommends avoiding resets by making only incremental changes and batching optimizations at planned intervals rather than reactively.
Read more: What Resets The Learning Phase (And How To Avoid It)
The article states that Google's documentation suggests roughly 7 days, but real-world stabilization differs by type. According to groas, Search campaigns with moderate conversion volume typically stabilize within 2 to 3 weeks, Performance Max campaigns often need 4 to 6 weeks, and Shopping campaigns usually stabilize within 2 to 4 weeks depending on product feed size and conversion volume.
Read more: How Long The Learning Phase Actually Takes By Campaign Type
The article recommends verifying that conversion tracking is firing correctly across all conversion actions, testing enhanced conversions, and validating that the GA4 integration is passing data back to Google Ads without lag or discrepancy. It recommends launching with Maximize Conversions without a target CPA and setting daily budget at a level that can realistically generate at least one conversion per day based on expected CPA, then not touching anything else during week one.
Read more: Week 1: Structure, Tracking Verification, And Conservative Bidding
According to groas, in week two advertisers should monitor impression share, search impression share lost to budget, click-through rate by ad group, and conversion tracking confirmation. The article states that CPA, ROAS, and cost per conversion should be ignored at this stage because they are meaningless with 7 days of data during the learning phase.
Read more: Week 2: First Performance Data: What To Look At And What To Ignore
The article states that advertisers should stay on Maximize Conversions for another two weeks if they are below at least 30 conversions in the past 30 days. According to groas, if above that threshold, they should set a target CPA at or slightly above the actual average CPA from weeks 2 through 4, tighten it later in 5-10% increments, and increase budget by no more than 15-20% at a time only if impression share lost to budget is above 20% and conversion data is trending stable.
Read more: Week 4: Bidding Strategy Assessment And First Budget Decision
According to groas, a campaign is ready to scale when its CPA or ROAS varies by less than 15-20% week over week for at least two consecutive weeks. The article states that if CPA swings from $40 one week to $70 the next, the campaign is not stable and scaling will only amplify the instability.
Read more: CPA Stability And ROAS Consistency As Green Lights
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[1] https://groas.com/post/google-ads-campaign-launch-schedule-2026-week-by-week-playbook-first-60-days (the article this page answers from)