How do i add USER_INTEREST in campaign level

[Arnab Ganguly]

Hello All

Is there any xsi_type for  USER_INTEREST ? Any python sample for adding USER_INTEREST in campaign level ?

Thanks,

Arnab

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Arnab,

Thank you for reaching out. As seen here, user interest criteria are only supported for negative criterion at the campaign level. You would do this through the CampaignCriterionService. Here is an example for adding supported criterion types to a campaign (or here if you're using Google Ads API).

Regards,
Anthony
Google Ads API Team

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[Arnab Ganguly]

Hey Anthony,

Thanks for your reply.Do we plan to support this for positive campaign as well ?

Regards,

Arnab

[Arnab Ganguly]

I am trying with below request.But it is giving internal error.

# Add the negative campaign criterion.

  negative_campaign_criterion_operand = {

      'xsi_type': 'NegativeCampaignCriterion',

      'campaignId': CAMPAIGN_ID,

      'criterion': {

          'xsi_type': 'CriterionUserInterest',

          'id': '80142'

      }

  }

  operations.append({

      'operator': 'ADD',

      'operand': negative_campaign_criterion_operand

  })

  # Make the mutate request.

  result = campaign_criterion_service.mutate(operations)

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Arnab,

You can follow our developer blog for information regarding future releases.

For your other concern, can you please provide the complete SOAP logs for your request so that we can investigate further? See here for more details on how to enable logging.

Regards,
Anthony
Google Ads API Team

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[Arnab Ganguly]

Following url: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/adwords-api/audience$20in-market%7Csort:date/adwords-api/k6NcD2GrTVQ/EJ59JeKdBwAJ

UserInterest is added as part of the criteria in adgroup level

And this link https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/targetingtypes#target_type_table 

shows it can be added as a negative level only can you please clarify.

Thanks,

Arnab

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Arnab,

That is correct. User Interests can only be added at the ad group level. From the campaign level, it is only available as a negative criteria.

Here is a snippet you can use to add negative criteria:

 negative_campaign_criterion_operand = {

   'xsi_type': 'NegativeCampaignCriterion',

   'campaignId': campaign_id,

   'criterion': {

     'xsi_type': 'CriterionUserInterest',

     'userInterestId': '80142',

[Arnab Ganguly]

I was able to add UserInterest under campaign.Below I have given the log for reference and python code snippet.Correct my if I am wrong.

campaign_criterion_service = adwords_client.GetService(

      'CampaignCriterionService', version='v201809')

criteria = [{'id': '1000', 'xsi_type': 'Language'}, {'id': '9004400', 'xsi_type': 'Location'}]

criteria.append({

          'xsi_type': 'CriterionUserInterest',

          'userInterestId': '80142'

      })

operations = []

  for criterion in criteria:

    operations.append({

        'operator': 'ADD',

        'operand': {

            'campaignId': CAMPAIGN_ID,

            'criterion': criterion

        }

    })

result = campaign_criterion_service.mutate(operations)

  # Display the resulting campaign criteria.

  for campaign_criterion in result['value']:

    print('Campaign criterion with campaign id "%s", criterion id "%s", '

          'and type "%s" was added.'

          % (campaign_criterion['campaignId'],

              campaign_criterion['criterion']['id'],

              campaign_criterion['criterion']['type']))

In log I saw this :

Campaign criterion with campaign id "7761432172", criterion id "50797975515", and type "USER_INTEREST" was added.

(I have deleted the campaign though later)