How to change display-Url in multiple adgroups ?

[Berry]

I realized it's impossible to change an Ad's Display URL "in-place", for a creative.

Is it possible to change the display URL globally, per campaign or per adGroup?

I have several campaigns with adGroups, all having the same Display URL, but I find it difficult to just change the URL

When I tried to change a displayURL in the Web interace, I realized that it actually deletes the creative, and creates a new, identical creative with its displayUrl set to the new value.


Doing the above via API means:

loop over all campaings
  loop over all adgroups
    loop over all creatives
        read creative properties
        delete creative (status=REMOVED)
        re-upload the same image to the same adgroup,
        with the same properties, with different DisplayURL.

Is there simpler way to change a campaigns Display URL?


N.B. there's a bug in the API:
setting the DisplayURL doesn't return any error, but in face doing nothing.  I would expect it to either change the URL or raise an exception.

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Berry,

1. Display URL is ad's property, so there's no way to set this at campaign or adgroup level.

2. Trying to set Display URL doesn't throw an exception, and this is by design. I agree that this is not probably the best way to handle things.

Cheers,

Anash P. Oommen,

AdWords API Advisor.