Creating Video Campaign - errors = OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT and MUTATE_NOT_ALLOWED

[Darshan Dhabale]

I am using the rest interface because I have my application in go and there is no standard lib for it.
Here is the curl
curl --location 'https://googleads.googleapis.com/v17/customers/4926841893/campaigns:mutate' \
--header 'developer-token: hN6dsqjNmj3tWdITcPd_Qg' \
--header 'login-customer-id: 3263459376' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ya29.a0AXooCgv756eKpN5h9TWccVdZyq6GUs3YQlA2cFipbDaF41dzXhxZVq40lzFZd3DyMZCv1a7x0hZZnBUah85MkWOcFQ9hELxZw01dkyAqyCIxKORk7vLL1C_A_zbiTANsXSjOV1Gr0W-hRhL6gbq7pZPpPADhnDiLE1jBaCgYKAcASARMSFQHGX2MikC5FoOFEJUQdN6Ayq8jmIw0171' \
--data '{
    "operations": [
        {
            "create": {
                "name": "A video campaign",
                "status": "PAUSED",
                "campaignBudget": "customers/4926841893/campaignBudgets/13757766883",
                "advertisingChannelType": "VIDEO",
                "targetCpa": {
                    "targetCpaMicros": 5000000
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
'

and the response
{
    "error": {
        "code": 400,
        "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",
        "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
        "details": [
            {
                "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v17.errors.GoogleAdsFailure",
                "errors": [
                    {
                        "errorCode": {
                            "contextError": "OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CONTEXT"
                        },
                        "message": "The operation is not allowed for the given context.",
                        "location": {
                            "fieldPathElements": [
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "operations",
                                    "index": 0
                                },
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "create"
                                },
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "target_cpa"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "errorCode": {
                            "mutateError": "MUTATE_NOT_ALLOWED"
                        },
                        "message": "Mutates are not allowed for the requested resource.",
                        "trigger": {
                            "stringValue": "VIDEO"
                        },
                        "location": {
                            "fieldPathElements": [
                                {
                                    "fieldName": "operations",
                                    "index": 0
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "requestId": "QudlAS83vMKB-XjTYG7TUQ"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Thanks for your help

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

Kindly note that video campaigns are not yet supported in the Google Ads API. Also, video campaigns cannot be mutated at all from the API, including simple operations such as pausing or enabling as well as complex operations like organizing, changing criteria, or adding ad groups. I would recommend you to check this guide for more information. 

Also, I will raise a request for this feature to become available in the Google Ads API. However, I cannot provide a scheduled timeline for its availability in the API. So, I would recommend you to follow our Release Notes and Blog Post for future updates.
 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vE9d6:ref" (ADR-00259641)

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team