How to get Ad group name and Ad name for video campaigns from AdWords?

[Ketaki]

I am downloading the video performance report data from AdWords api. I want to get Ad Group name and Ad name in the output data. But these fields are not available in the report fields.Instead the report has Ad group Id and Ad Id (CreativeId).

I need to get Ad Group Name and Ad name for video campaigns. But Adwords team has stated, we cannot retrieve campaigns,adgroups by SOAP services for video campaigns

Can i get these values from Ad Performance report for the required account ids and then merge these values with output data of Video Performance report? But i am not sure about whether Ad Performance report can return data for Ad Group name and Ad name every time for token related to video data.

Is there any other approach to get these names?

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hello,

The Video Performance Report now contains the AdGroupName as of AdWords API v201601. The Ad Group Performance Report and Ad Performance Report contain fields relevant to video campaigns.

Cheers,

Anthony

AdWords API Team

[Ketaki]

Thank you Anthony for the quick reply.

Now we can fetch AdGroupName from the video report itself. That's a good news for us. Is there any specific reason of not adding Ad name in the Video Performance report? 

We know the hierarchy for normal campaigns but we didn't understand the hierarchy of ads, videos for video campaigns. Can you please provide information or its documentation link?

Regards,

Ketaki

[Yin Niu]

Hi Ketaki, 

There's a "Video Title" field in VIDEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT, that might be what you are looking for. 

Here is a link for creating TrueView campaign in AdWords. If you have further questions about video campaign in AdWords, you could post them in AdWords forum.  

Thanks, 

Yin, AdWords API Team. 

[Ketaki]

Thank you Yin.