How do advertisers pause learning without losing data?

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Advertisers effectively pause learning without losing data by utilizing specific features within their advertising platforms designed for temporary campaign suspension. The most common approach involves pausing campaigns, ad sets, or individual ads directly through the platform interface. This action immediately stops ad delivery, consequently halting the accumulation of new performance data and the algorithm's active learning process. Crucially, all historical performance metrics, campaign configurations, and creative assets are meticulously preserved and remain readily accessible for future analysis or when campaigns are reactivated. Alternatively, some advertisers opt to set daily budgets to zero, which achieves a similar pause in ad spend and new data collection while keeping the campaign technically active but dormant. This strategy ensures that when campaigns are unpaused, the algorithms can seamlessly resume optimization, drawing upon the complete historical context and preserved settings.