Are Smart Display Campaigns available in the API?

[Tim Tsai]

Hi there,

I tried to attach a shared negative placement list to a Smart Display Campaign but I received a MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT error.

From looking at the AdWords blog, it looks like a new feature. Smart Display is also not listed in the AdWords API Channel Type.

Are smart display campaigns available in the API?

Thanks!

-Tim

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Tim,

Smart Display Campaigns are currently not supported in the AdWords API. You may follow our AdWords API blog for any future updates or announcements regarding this feature.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team

[Tim Tsai]

Understood, thanks!

[Dorian Kind]

Hi,

sorry to resurrect this thread, but I was wondering if there is a method to exclude these campaigns when downloading campaign perfomance reports. We use the reports to get IDs of campaigns where we need to attach shared negative placement sets, and as these campaigns are not supported, it results in a lot of errors when we try to attach the sets.

I've noticed that smart display campaigns have their AdvertisingChannelSubType attribute set to "" (an empty string), but when I add a corresponding predicate to the report definiation I get a INVALID_PREDICATE_ENUM_VALUE. I suppose you cannot filter for an empty string—is there any other way to exclude these campaign than to explicitly include every other AdvertisingChannelSubType?

Thanks for any pointers and best regards,
Dorian

[Dorian Kind]

Addendum: Actually including all AdvertisingChannelSubTypes doesn't work either, because most campaigns do not have that field set. However, only smart display campaigns are returned with an empty string as AdvertisingChannelSubType, for other campaigns that don't have an explicit value, it's " --" (two dashes).

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Dorian,

Thank you for pointing this scenario out. As far as I know Smart Display Campaigns are not supported in the AdWords API, which includes both the services and report types. For better tracking, could you create a new thread and include all your observations? We'll continue our discussion from there.

Best regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team