Google's 2016 “Bad Ads Report”: 1.7B ads removed compared to 780M in 2015, 200 publishers banned from AdSense for fake news
In its annual “Bad Ads” report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 than it did in 2015 by removing 1.7 billion ads compared to the 780 million removed in 2015.