Are ids (campaign, adgroup, ad) reused across accounts?

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Matt Dworkin

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Dec 21, 2022, 3:41:19 PM12/21/22

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Hello,

I have two sub accounts under one MCC, I'm trying to find out if it might ever be the case that the same campaign id (or adgroup id or ad id) will be used in each account. So, for example, Account A has ad 1234, is it possible that an ad in Account B is assigned 1234?

Thanks for any info you can provide.

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Matt

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Dec 21, 2022, 11:49:46 PM12/21/22

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for reaching out to the Google Ads API Forum.

With regards to your question "So, for example, Account A has an ad 1234, is it possible that an ad in Account B is assigned 1234?", as per this guide, Ad ID is not globally unique but (AdGroupId, AdId) pair is globally unique. I hope this clarifies.

Please note that every object in Google Ads is identified by its own ID. Some of these IDs are globally unique across all Google Ads accounts, while others are unique only within a confined scope.

Please see Basic Concepts for more information.

Have a great day.

Regards,

Marjorie
Google Ads API Team