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Google opens personalized alcohol advertising on YouTube starting October 30

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Google will allow alcohol advertisers to use personalized targeting on YouTube starting October 30, where local laws permit, while maintaining age and health-related restrictions.

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Google announced it will permit personalized targeting for alcohol ads on YouTube beginning October 30 in markets where local regulations allow, ending a previous restriction on personalized alcohol advertising. The policy maintains existing safeguards—age restrictions, prohibitions on health-based targeting, and geographic limitations in Egypt, India, Indonesia, and Poland—while expanding eligible product categories to include alcohol alternatives. Users retain control through My Ad Center preferences.

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