My adwords campaign is going fine, except for an issue around trademarked terms, specifically Nokia and Sprint. Google is allowing me to bid on terms with T-Mobile, but is preventing all my ads with Sprint and Nokia in them. I clearly see other ads running that have these terms in them - any suggestions for a solution? Thanks!
You do not has many options. Your best one is just to make ads without these words, you do not need them. You could try misspellings (n0kia Sprlnt ) , but this would kill your conversion and AdWords staff normally don't like things like this. You could also create a separate campaign targeting non-us countries as have chance to your ads do not get disapproved. These guys using these words probably just created the ad and will get disapproved soon as you need a written authorization from Nokia sent to Google naming your account to use their trademark in AdWords ads.
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