Out of Date Ads.txt - Delayed Notification

August 19, 2025 12:27

Hey! I log in to my dashboard daily and today (Aug 19) I saw that Ads.txt was out of date again. In my case I have to manually update it, unfortunately. When I downloaded the file I noticed that the date for this update is August 15.

I was just curious why the alerts seem to only show in my dashboard several days later?
What are the implications of updating out-of-date ads.txt immediately vs several days later? Is the difference substantial or trivial?

Thanks a lot! :)

https://www.travelingthroughfood.com

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Journey Support Team

August 19, 2025 15:37
Hey Traveling Through Food Blog - depending on how caching is set up on your site, it can take a day or two for our Ads.txt monitoring service to notice that your file is out of date.

The overall impact on revenue is insignificant if the file is left out of date for a few days.
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