About managed accounts

If your Ads Creative Studio account is linked to a manager account, users of that manager account can access your account. You won't be able access the manager account, but you'll be able to sign in and use your own account as usual.

A user with an Admin role for your account must approve any new links to a manager account. If your account was created within a manager account, that manager account was automatically linked to and assigned ownership of your account. Ownership grants permissions for the manager account's users to take additional actions in your account.

User access levels

Depending on their access level to the manager account and whether their manager account is an owner of your account, users of the manager account can view and change different features in your account.

Link your account to a manager account

You can't directly link your account to a manager account. Someone who has access to the manager account must send a link request to your account.

Accept a link request

Once you receive a link request, you can follow the link in the request notification email or sign in to your Ads Creative Studio account to accept the request. You must have an Admin role to accept a link request.

1.  Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
2. Click Settings  Access and security.
3. Click Managers.
4. In the "Link Requests" table, find the request you want to accept, and in the "Actions" column, click Accept.
5. Click Grant access to confirm.

Decline a link request

To decline a link request, you can follow the link in the request notification email or sign in to your Ads Creative Studio account to decline the request. Link requests will also expire after 30 days if you don't respond to them.

1.  Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
2. Click Settings  Access and security.
3. Click Managers.
4. In the "Link Requests" table, find the request you want to decline, and in the "Actions" column, click Decline.
5. Click Decline request to confirm.

View manager accounts

You can see which manager accounts are directly linked above yours.

1. Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
2. Click Settings  Access and security.
3. Click Managers.

Set your account's owner

To assign ownership to a manager account, you must have an Admin role for the client account and the client account must not currently have an owner.

1. Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
2. Click Settings  Access and security.
3. Click Managers.
4. Place your cursor in the "Owner" column for the manager account that you want to make the owner, then click the arrow that appears and select Yes.

Remove your account's owner

To remove ownership from a manager account, you must have an Admin role for the client account.

1.   Sign in to Ads Creative Studio.
2. Click Settings  Access and security.
3. Click Managers.
4. Place your cursor in the "Owner" column for the manager account that you want to make the owner, then click the arrow that appears and select No.

Unlinking a manager account that has ownership will also remove it as an owner.