How to Set Bids on YouTube Campaigns

[Mark Rogoyski]

Hi,

Does setting bids work differently for YouTube campaigns? When using AdGroupService to set an adgroup bid, I get the following error:

[OperationAccessDenied.MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT @ operations[0]]

I'm using v6.4.0 of the PHP Client Library against API v201509. The AdWords account has been upgraded to handle YouTube campaigns.

I noticed that the client library does not have a CpvBid class, so I wonder if that is the reason, since YouTube campaigns are CPV bids. In the API call that resulted in the above error, I used a CpmBid object. What is the proper way to set bids on a YouTube campaign?

The following is the SOAP log of the request:

[Oct 21 2015 21:04:39.000000 - ERROR] POST /api/adwords/cm/v201509/AdGroupService HTTP/1.1

Host: adwords.google.com

Connection: Keep-Alive

User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13, gzip

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Content-Encoding: gzip

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

SOAPAction: ""

Content-Length: 494

Authorization:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201509" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <SOAP-ENV:Header>

    <ns1:RequestHeader>

      <ns1:clientCustomerId>----</ns1:clientCustomerId>

      <ns1:developerToken>----</ns1:developerToken>

      <ns1:userAgent>----</ns1:userAgent>

    </ns1:RequestHeader>

  </SOAP-ENV:Header>

  <SOAP-ENV:Body>

    <ns1:mutate>

      <ns1:operations>

        <ns1:operator>SET</ns1:operator>

        <ns1:operand>

          <ns1:id>23896520884</ns1:id>

          <ns1:biddingStrategyConfiguration>

            <ns1:bids xsi:type="ns1:CpmBid">

              <ns1:bid>

                <ns1:microAmount>4000000</ns1:microAmount>

              </ns1:bid>

            </ns1:bids>

          </ns1:biddingStrategyConfiguration>

        </ns1:operand>

      </ns1:operations>

    </ns1:mutate>

  </SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Content-Encoding: gzip

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:04:39 GMT

Expires: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:04:39 GMT

Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Content-Length: 515

Server: GSE

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Header>

    <ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201509">

      <requestId>----</requestId>

      <serviceName>AdGroupService</serviceName>

      <methodName>mutate</methodName>

      <operations>1</operations>

      <responseTime>54</responseTime>

    </ResponseHeader>

  </soap:Header>

  <soap:Body>

    <soap:Fault>

      <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>

      <faultstring>[OperationAccessDenied.MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT @ operations[0]]</faultstring>

      <detail>

        <ApiExceptionFault xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201509">

          <message>[OperationAccessDenied.MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT @ operations[0]]</message>

          <ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>

          <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="OperationAccessDenied">

            <fieldPath>operations[0]</fieldPath>

            <trigger/>

            <errorString>OperationAccessDenied.MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT</errorString>

            <ApiError.Type>OperationAccessDenied</ApiError.Type>

            <reason>MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT</reason>

          </errors>

        </ApiExceptionFault>

      </detail>

    </soap:Fault>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

[Umesh Dengale]

Hello,

The AdWords API v201509 support only the video campaigns data and statistics in the API reports. The API does not support get, mutate operations for the video campaigns. Please check release notes for complete lists of changes and added features.

Thanks,

Umesh, AdWords API Team.