What are OWNED_AND_OPERATED and MULTIPLE campaign channel types?

[sealytic...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I am getting some errors because of OWNED_AND_OPERATED and MULTIPLE campaign channel types. But there is no documentation about these channel types. I just found that explanation on the github repository:

https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-dotnet/blob/121bc99c99d6934b932844c21aedc3c2e974cf11/Google.Ads.GoogleAds/src/V10/CampaignSimulation.g.cs

/// <summary>

/// A campaign simulation. Supported combinations of advertising

/// channel type, simulation type and simulation modification

/// method is detailed below respectively.

///

/// SEARCH - CPC_BID - UNIFORM

/// SEARCH - CPC_BID - SCALING

/// SEARCH - TARGET_CPA - UNIFORM

/// SEARCH - TARGET_CPA - SCALING

/// SEARCH - TARGET_ROAS - UNIFORM

/// SEARCH - TARGET_IMPRESSION_SHARE - UNIFORM

/// SEARCH - BUDGET - UNIFORM

/// SHOPPING - BUDGET - UNIFORM

/// SHOPPING - TARGET_ROAS - UNIFORM

/// MULTIPLE - TARGET_CPA - UNIFORM

/// OWNED_AND_OPERATED - TARGET_CPA - DEFAULT

/// DISPLAY - TARGET_CPA - UNIFORM

/// </summary>

But these two types OWNED_AND_OPERATED  and MULTIPLE does not exist in the enum in .net client.

public enum AdvertisingChannelType
            {
                [OriginalName("UNSPECIFIED")]
                Unspecified,
                [OriginalName("UNKNOWN")]
                Unknown,
                [OriginalName("SEARCH")]
                Search,
                [OriginalName("DISPLAY")]
                Display,
                [OriginalName("SHOPPING")]
                Shopping,
                [OriginalName("HOTEL")]
                Hotel,
                [OriginalName("VIDEO")]
                Video,
                [OriginalName("MULTI_CHANNEL")]
                MultiChannel,
                [OriginalName("LOCAL")]
                Local,
                [OriginalName("SMART")]
                Smart,
                [OriginalName("PERFORMANCE_MAX")]
                PerformanceMax,
                [OriginalName("LOCAL_SERVICES")]
                LocalServices,
                [OriginalName("DISCOVERY")]
                Discovery
            }

So, could you give some information about OWNED_AND_OPERATED and MULTIPLE channel types? What is the equivalent of them in enum?

Thanks

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Mehmet,

The campaign_simulation resource doesn't return a channel type in any field, the channel type or types described there are limitations on which simulations return when querying. It doesn't appear to map to any ENUM. There are no other uses for those 'network types' that I know of.

If the above doesn't help, from your description of the issue it appears most probably that this is a .NET Client library specific issue. I can only suggest you reach out to the issue tracker.

If the issue is the API response itself, could you send us a 'DEBUG' log level request and response log of raw API communications showing missing enum issue?

The request and response appears similar to the JSON Mappings in our REST documentation with additional headers and information such as request Id. Here are logging instructions for our .NET Ads API Client Library.

You may send the requested information via "Reply to author" or via googleadsa...@google.com with a link to this forum post added to the new thread.

Regards,

Aryeh Google Ads API Team

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[sealytic...@gmail.com]

I think you understand me wrong. 

In documantation it is told that "A campaign simulation. Supported combinations of advertising channel type, simulation type and simulation modification"

And a combination is that:  OWNED_AND_OPERATED - TARGET_CPA - DEFAULT

So there must be an advertising channel type named  as OWNED_AND_OPERATED. But there is no information about  OWNED_AND_OPERATED channel type.

So could you give me some links that point to OWNED_AND_OPERATED channel type.

Thanks

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Mehmet,

You had mentioned you received errors and that you were under the impression they are enums so I responded accordingly. I think owned and operated means both all Google properties and multiple could mean many channels, to be certain I will raise this with my team and get back to you as soon as possible.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello All,

That's a good question. I've filed an issue to resolve this in our documentation in the future. These are some ancient names that haven't been updated to reflect newer names that we use.

So, MULTIPLE is MULTI_CHANNEL and OWNED_AND_OPERATED is DISCOVERY. 

Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

Take care,

Nadine Wang Google Ads API Team

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[sealytic...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much for info.