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James Grace

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Mar 5, 2020, 5:01:27 PM3/5/20

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I'm trying to get access to Display Ad images via the Google Ads API. At the moment, my code doesn't seem to be working for certain ads. As near as I can tell from my debugging efforts so far, the issue is that it's not working for HTML5 ads.

Here is the query I'm using :

SELECT
     ad_group.name,
     campaign.name,
     ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_display_ad.logo_images,
     ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_display_ad.marketing_images,
     ad_group_ad.ad.image_ad.preview_image_url,
     ad_group_ad.ad.image_ad.image_url
FROM
    ad_group_ad
WHERE
    campaign.advertising_channel_type = \'DISPLAY\'
LIMIT
    100

For accounts using HTML5 ads, there is nothing returned for any of the last (4) fields.  For other accounts, I'm using the "ad_group_ad.ad.image_ad.image_url" field to get the ad image.

What am I missing?

Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod

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Mar 6, 2020, 10:57:30 AM3/6/20

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Hi James,

The reason you are not seeing these fields populated for your display/HTML5 ads is because the fields are specific to other ad types. responsive_display_ads are specific to responsive display ads and image_ads are for the old image ad type.

Regards,
Anthony
Google Ads API Team