Smart Display Campaigns in Reports

[Dorian Kind]

Hi,

continuing the discussion from here, it appears that Smart Display Campaigns appear in campaign performance reports, but are not supported by any services, similar to video campaigns.

However, in contrast to video campaigns there seems to be no easy way to exclude them from the reports. Our workaround so far is to filter for all display campaigns in the report definition and then exclude those rows from the downloaded report that have an empty string in their "AdvertisingChannelSubType" attribute—there are other display campaign subtypes that don't have this field set, but for those the reported value is "--" (two dashes), which makes the smart display campaigns distinguishable.

Of course, it would be more convenient if there was a way to exclude them directly in a report definition. Maybe that's something that could be included in the next Adwords API release?

Best regards,

Dorian

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Dorian,

To further investigate, could you send your clientCustomerId, the complete report definition, and the generated report file which contained Smart Display Campaigns information? Please reply privately via Reply privately to author.

Additionally, I would just like to point out that video campaigns can be available through reports as mentioned here.

Best regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team