Best Google Ads Communities (2026): 24 Rooms Compared

I'm Christopher Krassnig. I run ZenoX, a Google Ads agency for online stores. We publish this page, and our Skool group, Google Ads eCom Lab, is on the list. We rank it first. I will show you why, and I will tell you where each other room beats us.

Here is why I built the room in the first place. A store owner posts a question about Merchant Center or Performance Max. On Reddit, the top reply often comes from someone who runs ads for a law firm. In a room where everyone runs a shop, the reply comes from someone who fixed the same thing last week.

Omar T. proved that to me. On 29 June 2026 he posted his first sale in the Lab: $760.20 after $174 of ad spend. He had paused his campaign after two days because he panicked. The group and my team talked him into relaunching it. That is what a good room does. It stops you from quitting on day two.

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Our Pick Order at a Glance

How we checked, and what we could not see, is further down.

Google Ads eCom Lab: Best for Online Stores and Dropshipping (Ours)

Google Ads eCom Lab is a Skool group for people who run Google Ads on an online store. On 27 October 2026 it had 1,743 members and a 5.0 rating from 24 reviews.

Members

1,743

Rating on Skool

5.0 (24)

Courses and lessons

12 / 124

The plans below follow our Skool plans page. Skool bills each one monthly.

• Standard, $9/month. The community and a daily Google Ads Q&A thread. Members help each other there, and our media buyers jump in. You also get case studies, teardown posts, a resources vault with checklists, audits and starter SOPs, and 10 of the 12 courses.
• Premium, $44/month. Everything in Standard, plus the 2 advanced courses. Our media buyers answer you directly within 24 hours on weekdays. You also get the templates vault (campaign builds, naming, tracking, PMax structure, feed labels), every SOP we run the agency on, and a monthly "what to do now" playbook.
• Inner Circle, $299/month. Everything in Premium, front of the queue, and a weekly VIP live call with me and the team: account teardowns and what to do next. Early access to new templates, and high-level SOPs only this tier sees. It is included for Scaley AI users.

Why it ranks first: it is built for one job, Google Ads on an online store. Performance Max, product feeds, Merchant Center approvals, and whether an ad still makes money when your markup is small. Recent threads show it: when to start Q4 discounts, a Merchant Center misrepresentation flag, a campaign held back by its budget while it sells well, and how to bid on brand Search.

We counted its public feed from 25 September to 8 October 2026. Members started 33 posts. 28 got at least one comment. I commented on 16 of them. That shows people reply. It does not show the replies are right. We ran the same count on PPC Launchpad, the only other public group here.

The playbooks come from the team that runs Google Ads for 400+ stores today, with $200M+ in client sales tracked (our internal total, not audited).

Where it loses: at 1,700+ members it is small next to Reddit, and three Skool groups on this list have more members. It is also the wrong room if you sell services, or if Meta is your main channel.

A member review on the Skool page, Luuk W., September 2026: "Exactly what I needed." Want to see the room before you join? Here is the full tour of Google Ads eCom Lab, and the community page has every plan.

r/PPC and r/GoogleAds: Best Free Crowd for Any Google Ads Question

r/PPC showed 286,124 members on 2 October 2026. r/GoogleAds showed 80,982. Nothing else here comes close on size. Both had new posts that morning: the newest r/PPC post was from 04:35 UTC and the newest r/GoogleAds post from 05:33 UTC.

That is why they sit right behind ours. Most people want a second opinion on any kind of account, for free, from a crowd they can read before they post. Reddit gives you that. We could not recheck Reddit on 8 October, and we did not count replies there.

The catch is the mix. r/PPC covers Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon ads. Ask about a Merchant Center flag on a dropship store and the top reply might come from someone who runs ads for a law firm. Votes reward confidence, not results. Use it for range. Check anything big before you act on it.

There is also r/adwords (26,700 members on 2 October 2026). It still uses Google's old name, and it is quieter: its newest post was from the day before.

Theo Clarke's Google Ads Dropshipping (Free): Best Room for Total Beginners

Google Ads Dropshipping (Free) is Theo Clarke's Skool group. On 27 October 2026 it had 7,958 members. That is more than four times ours, and it costs nothing.

Its own line says it all: "Learn how to generate sales with Google Ads Dropshipping - no experience needed!" If you have never launched a campaign, that is the room built for you. It starts from zero, and in a crowd that size someone has likely hit your beginner problem before.

The group is private, so we could not see its posts. Skool shows 1,267 posts in total (read 8 October 2026), but not when they went up, so its recent activity is unknown to us.

Where we differ is the starting point. Theo's room is built for the first sale. Ours is built for stores that already spend and want to scale. If you would rather learn the basics alone first, my four-hour course on YouTube covers them, and so does our Google Ads dropshipping guide.

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Name trap: Arthur and Bryan's AB Com group now also shows the name "Google Ads Dropshipping" on Skool. Check the URL. Theo's is skool.com/google-ads-dropshipping. For every Skool room with a similar name, read the side-by-side of Google Ads dropshipping Skool communities.

Google Ads Help Community: Best for Policy and Billing Questions

The Google Ads Help Community is Google's own help forum. People ask about setup, ad approvals, policy and billing. Google-picked volunteers, called Product Experts, answer there, along with other users and sometimes Google staff. It shows no member count.

Keep one thing straight. Forum replies are community advice. Nobody there is Google support looking inside your account. If your account is suspended, start with Google's suspension and appeal guide, which explains how to file an appeal. The forum then helps you read a policy and see what others did in the same spot.

It is not built for growing a store. One problem, one thread. No ecom track, no scaling talk.

PPC Launchpad: Best Free Performance Max Course

PPC Launchpad, run by Austin LeClear and the GrowMyAds team, had 5,443 members on 8 October 2026. It is free. Its about page offers a 25-module Performance Max course to anyone who joins, which is a lot of free material.

Know this before you join. A pinned post from January says active talk moved to a separate paid group, PPC Copilot. Our count backs that up. Launchpad's feed is public, and its newest post was started on 26 August 2026. Nobody started a new one between 25 September and 8 October. Comments still land on older posts.

So Launchpad is a strong free library. The live talk lives in Copilot, which costs money. It is also not built only for stores, so expect to filter.

Rob Andolina's Google Ads Skool. Best Path from Scratch

Rob Andolina's Google Ads Skool had 5,190 members on 27 October 2026 and costs nothing. Its description promises everything you need to "launch, optimize, and scale winning Google Ads campaigns from scratch," plus feedback on your campaigns and direct support. It is bigger than ours.

The group is private, so we could not see the course list or recent posts. Skool shows 1,964 posts in total, but not when they went up, so its activity is unknown to us. Its public description does not mention product feeds, Merchant Center or Shopping. If you run a store, ask what it covers there before you rely on it for feed work.

Google Advertising and Measurement Community: Best Discord for API Work

The Google Advertising and Measurement Community is an official Discord run by the Google Ads Developer Relations team. On 8 October 2026 it had 24,065 members and 1,265 online.

It is built for people who build tools on the Google Ads API, and for Google's measurement tools. If that is you, it is the best room on this list, because Google's own team runs it. A Shopify feed question is off topic there.

A server called Google Ads Unofficial Support is listed on Disboard. It showed no member count on the tag page, and its listing had not been bumped in 101 days when we checked on 2 October. Check that it is alive before you join.

AB Com and AB Inner Circle: The Paid Ladder

Arthur and Bryan run two Skool groups that work like a ladder.

AB Com had 2,625 members on 8 October 2026. Joining costs a one-time $1, per the group's own price data. Its focus is beginner Google Ads dropshipping: how it works, Merchant Center, suspensions. Its display name now reads "Google Ads Dropshipping," the same as Theo Clarke's group, so check the URL.

AB Inner Circle is the paid step. On 8 October 2026 it had 391 members and a 4.9 rating from 35 reviews, at $249/month. Its about page lists what the money buys: a store guide and Merchant Center checklist, direct access to their media buyer, weekly calls with Arthur and Bryan, and scaling frameworks. Members also join a private Discord. Both groups are private, so we could not see their posts or count that Discord.

Their public guides at ab-ecom.com are good. If you want a paid group with the founders on a weekly call, this is a real option.

PPC Copilot: Paid Courses Plus Team Support

PPC Copilot is the paid group from the GrowMyAds team behind PPC Launchpad. Luke Donoghue, a GrowMyAds co-founder, owns it on Skool. On 8 October 2026 it had 241 members and one 5.0 review.

Its about page lists $120/month, with a note that the price goes up at 300 members. A year costs $950 and adds a one-to-one account review with Austin or Luke. For the money, the page lists:

• An Ecommerce Accelerator course (45 modules) and a 35-module Performance Max framework.
• A Lead Gen Accelerator (32 modules) and conversion rate training with templates.
• Hands-on support from their Google Ads team, plus weekly expert Q&A.
• An AI campaign builder.

Skool counts 10 courses and 339 modules in the group, more than ours. It is private, so we could not see the posts or test the support. It ranks ninth because its courses split between stores and lead gen, so a store owner pays for both. If you run both kinds of account and want a deep course library with a team on hand, it is a fair pick.

God Tier Ads: Paid Room for People Who Run Accounts for Clients

God Tier Ads sells a Google Ads course for PPC pros and runs a paid community next to it. Its community page, read 8 October 2026, says $99/month, no contract, and a free trial.

The page lists live calls with recordings, a Google Ads question section, a section on automation, and a corner for freelancers and agencies. It also lists 30+ recorded sessions and a 23-lesson conversion tracking course. It shows no member count, only "100s of marketers." The course itself is a one-time buy. Its home page shows no price, and ppc.io says around $600.

We could not see inside, so its activity is unknown to us. It ranks tenth because it is built for people who run accounts for clients, not for store owners. If that is you, the free trial makes it cheap to test.

Paid Groups Side by Side

The first four rows are what each page promises, read 8 October 2026. Only the last row is something we checked.

Start with the cheapest room that fits. Then decide if $99 to $249 a month buys you something it does not.

PPC Slack Groups: PSA, PPC Chat, r/PPC Slack and PPC.io

These are rooms for people who run PPC as a job: agency talk, platform news, client work. That is how ppc.io's list of PPC Slack communities pitches them. The member counts come only from that list, read 2 October 2026. We could not check them at the source, so treat them as claims. ppc.io wrote the list and ranked its own Slack first.

Shortlist if you run Google Ads for clients:

1. r/PPC for daily volume. It is public, so you can read before you post.
2. Paid Search Association, which promises free sign-up on its own site.
3. PPC.io Slack if you are happy to apply and give back. Its own page says members who do not contribute are out.

Foxwell Founders: For Big Meta Budgets

Foxwell Founders is a paid group you apply to join. Its own site, read 8 October 2026, says 500+ members spending a combined $300 million a month on Facebook and Instagram, and 600+ members further down the page. It lists Meta ad training, live Meta account reviews, monthly audits of your Meta and Google ads, and a member Slack.

No price is shown. You apply and name a monthly price that works for you. ppc.io lists it at 400-500 members and $600 a month.

So it is a Meta room first, with Google Ads on the side. For a store owner who wants a Google Ads room, it is the wrong fit. It makes sense once you spend big on Meta and want peers who do the same.

Every Google Ads Community We Checked, in One Table

Our room, Theo Clarke's and Rob Andolina's groups read 27 October 2026. The other Skool groups, Discord, Foxwell and God Tier Ads read 8 October 2026. Reddit read 2 October 2026. "Via ppc.io" means ppc.io's list, read 2 October 2026, not checked at the source.

How We Checked

We read 20 rooms at the source. Ten Skool groups, Google's Discord, Foxwell Founders and God Tier Ads on 8 October 2026. We re-read three of the Skool groups on 27 October 2026: ours, Theo Clarke's and Rob Andolina's. Five subreddits, Google's help forum and a Discord listing on 2 October 2026, because Reddit blocked our recheck on the 8th. The last four are Slack groups we could not get into, so their member counts come from ppc.io's list.

One rule for every room: we judge it on what it shows the public. We did not join any private group. A private room still gets ranked, from its own public page, and we mark its activity unknown.

We ranked on who the room is built for, what it costs, whether its numbers check out, and size. Size counts, but it is not the whole score. 5,000 people who run your kind of account beat 280,000 who mostly do not.

We also ran one activity check, the same way on every group whose posts are public logged out. Only two Skool groups qualify: ours and PPC Launchpad. We counted posts started from 25 September to 8 October 2026 and how many got a comment. Ours had 33 member posts, 28 with a comment. Launchpad had none started in that window. Two limits: a comment count can include the poster's own reply, and we did not time any answers. So this page makes no claim about how fast any room answers.

What We Found When We Checked

Three things worth knowing before you join anything:

1. Names collide. Two Skool groups now display "Google Ads Dropshipping": Theo Clarke's and AB Com. Always check the URL.
2. The chat can live somewhere else. PPC Launchpad's free group points active talk to PPC Copilot, which charges $120/month. Launchpad had no new posts from 26 August to 8 October.
3. Prices change. On 2 October, the Surfside group showed $5/month in its header and $3/month in its text. By 8 October its text named no price and the header still said $5. Dan Davies' group text said £30/month on 2 October. By 8 October it said FREE to join. Read the page on the day you pay.

Three Places We Did Not Rank

People put these on Google Ads lists. Two are not Google Ads communities. One is a course site with no room.

Shopify Community is Shopify's own forum, run by Shopify. It is huge and covers the whole store: themes, apps, checkout, shipping, accounting. Ask it why your theme breaks or which app fights another. Do not ask it why Performance Max stopped spending. Google Ads is a thin slice there, with no track of its own.

Google Skillshop is Google's free course and certificate site. It covers Search, Shopping, Video and more, and the badge helps if you sell your skills to clients. It is training, not a room. Nobody there will look at your account.

Dropship Breakthru, run by Ben Knegendorf and Jon Warren, is paid dropshipping coaching with a Facebook group. Pricing is not public. You book a call. Google Ads is one topic among many, not the core.

Do Discord and Facebook Groups Still Work?

Some do. We did not check any private ones for this list, so none is ranked. Most are invite-only, and we could not read their member counts and posts the way we read Reddit and Skool.

Judge one yourself with three checks. Do members post real screenshots with real numbers? Are the newest posts from this week? Does anyone with results still post after the course launch? A group that fails all three is a funnel, whatever app it sits on. We wrote a longer answer in Skool vs Discord vs Reddit for Google Ads.

When a Room Is Not Enough

A room teaches you. Nobody in it logs into your account and runs it for you. If you spend at least EUR 10,000 a month on ads and would rather hand the work over, that is a different buy: our Google Ads agency for stores. Below that, a room is the better place to start. I am Christopher Krassnig, and you can read my story and the companies behind this page. Our software, Scaley AI, answers questions about your own account, and Inner Circle members get it included.

Pick Two Rooms, Then Stay a Month

Most people end up in two rooms. One big crowd for quick takes, one small room that runs the same kind of account as you. Join one, post your real numbers, and stay a month before you judge it.

Want more? Read the side-by-side of Google Ads dropshipping Skool communities, the tour inside Google Ads eCom Lab, and Skool vs Discord vs Reddit for Google Ads. For the tactics behind it all, read the complete Google Ads dropshipping guide.

If you run a store and want a room built for it, join Google Ads eCom Lab, $9 a month, at skool.com/google-ads-ecom.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Best Google Ads Community in 2026?

For an online store, Google Ads eCom Lab on Skool. It is built only for ecom Google Ads, it has 1,700+ members and a 5.0 rating from 24 reviews, and Standard is $9 a month. We run it, so weigh that. For a free second opinion on any account, use r/PPC and r/GoogleAds. For a total beginner, Theo Clarke's Google Ads Dropshipping (Free) is the bigger room.

Which Google Ads Community Has the Most Members?

Reddit. On 2 October 2026 r/PPC showed 286,124 members, r/GoogleAds 80,982 and r/adwords 26,700. Next is Google's official Discord for API and measurement work, with 24,065 on 8 October 2026. On Skool, Theo Clarke's Google Ads Dropshipping (Free) led with 7,958 on 27 October 2026, then PPC Launchpad at 5,443 (8 October) and Rob Andolina's Google Ads Skool at 5,190.

Is There a Free Google Ads Community for Ecommerce?

Yes, a few. r/PPC and r/GoogleAds on Reddit cost nothing, and so do Theo Clarke's Google Ads Dropshipping (Free) and Rob Andolina's Google Ads Skool on Skool. Our room costs $9 a month, so it is not on the no-cost list. Standard has a daily Q&A thread, case studies and 10 of 12 courses. Premium is $44/month. Inner Circle is $299/month with a weekly live call.

What Is the Best Ecom Community for Google Ads Questions?

Pick by problem. General dropshipping talk fits r/dropshipping (290,932 members on 2 October 2026). Theme and checkout problems fit Shopify Community. Google Ads on a store that already sells fits Google Ads eCom Lab, which is ours. Most operators use two rooms: one big crowd for quick takes, one small room that runs the same kind of account as theirs.

Is There a Google Ads Discord Server?

Yes. The Google Advertising and Measurement Community is an official Discord run by Google Ads Developer Relations. It had 24,065 members and 1,265 online on 8 October 2026. It is built for people who work with the Google Ads API and measurement tools, not store owners. A Google Ads Unofficial Support server is also listed on Disboard, with no member count shown.

Is r/PPC Good for Ecom Google Ads Questions?

For a second opinion, yes. It is free and huge. But it mixes Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon ads. A Merchant Center or Performance Max question about a store can get answered by someone who runs a very different kind of account. For store problems, pair it with a room where everyone runs a shop.

Are Paid Google Ads Communities Worth It?

Only once you spend real money on ads. AB Inner Circle lists $249 a month with weekly founder calls. PPC Copilot lists $120 a month for courses, team support and weekly expert Q&A. God Tier Ads lists $99 a month with a free trial. Foxwell Founders shows no public price. That is what each page promises. We did not test any of them from inside, so start with the cheapest room and cancel if it is quiet.

Who Wrote This List?

Christopher Krassnig, founder of ZenoX Media. ZenoX runs Google Ads eCom Lab, number one on this list. Every other room is linked and every count has the date we read it, so you can check us.