The economics for me don't work with the quota system. I have a media company and thousands and thousands of advertisements from thousands of customers running on the internet among a network of a dozen websites.
Reselling adwords ads to my existing advertisers would have been a nice feature for me and good for my customers. But there is no way to get such a system launched under the quota system. Initially, I would need to create or offer Adwords to my customers, but I have no way to price it since there is no dollar value for a quota point and no way to find out. And if I offered it for free, I would simply run out of quota points and not be able to guarantee that any individual ad would run - my customers wouldn't go for that and I wouldn't want to offer it.
I have posted about this previously and I have had limited email conversations with Google employees, but apparently there is little interest in 5 figure ad purchases. Maybe if I were a million dollar buyer of advertising I would have gotten a different response. As it is, I have turned off all my campaigns in my automated Adwords account and instead used that money to purchase a small competitor, giving me the same traffic boost for less money.
Luckily, my competitors face the same hurdle and none of them appear to be working with an Adwords API integration (that I know of).
I actually dropped development more than a month ago, but I visited the API forum today to see if the quota system had been modified, but clearly it's the same unfathomable bizarre hurdle it was before.
When I can price the automated creation of an Adwords Advertisement I will restart development.
I'm thinking also about dropping my two Adwords API projects. I'm sure that one of these programs would get 5 stars on download.com and 5 cows on tucows.com, but I see no way to release it (see http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/a8ba4...). Perhaps I can finish my projects some days, but I'm sure I will not start a new project based on a "free" Google API - There is no free lunch.
I need at least one year to create a good program - and then I have to sell it to more than 5 or 10 customer. This is not possible or allowed with the current TOC, account linking & developer token.
Robert
Vulnerability note: My Adwords API client is a Windows software. This client needs my developer token, MCC email & password (hard coded) and the clientEmail (enterd by user). So every cracker can reverse the .exe file and get my MCC account data. So a cracker could get a copy of for example AdwordsDominator and get full access to all the thousands of Adwords accounts of the AdwordsDominator users and create millions of free ads or fetch the credit card infos. Solution would be a user token instead of a developer token, see http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/8ad8e....
Two points, one, partner with someone to offer the service to your clients and two, the new quota system (rolling out today) might help you. BTW, we do 7 figures a month spend with Google and get close to the same response you get, so don't sweat it.
> Two points, one, partner with someone to offer the service to your > clients and two, the new quota system (rolling out today) might help > you. BTW, we do 7 figures a month spend with Google and get close to > the same response you get, so don't sweat it.
> Two points, one, partner with someone to offer the service to your > clients and two, the new quota system (rolling out today) might help > you. BTW, we do 7 figures a month spend with Google and get close to > the same response you get, so don't sweat it.
OK, so will somebody fill us peons in on the details?
Obviously, there was neither a rollout nor an announcement. So, as usual, yet another delay.
But I'd like to know what's coming so I can decide whether to pursue API development or not.
I have two interests:
- developing some software for my own advertising. Currently, I don't have enough quota to do beans with this.
- developing a test server/caching server to help others minimize API usage. This seems a good bet if Google continues as they have, but doesn't manage to alienate ALL of their API users.
Without knowing what direction things are going, it makes little sense to pursue either of these.
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