How to receive updates about disapproved ads (for policy violation)

[Dylan]

Hi, we are trying to find a way to keep our app server in the know when an ad get's disapproved for policy violation. We were hoping for an active way of getting this information into our system, like a webhook. Unfortunately we have not been able to find anything along those lines. What is the best practice for this case? Any help is of course highly appreciated!

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Dylan,

Thank you for reaching out. You could fetch the ad approval information from the combinedApprovalStatus attribute of the PolicySummary object from the Ad Performance Report.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team
 

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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[Dylan]

Hi Xiaoming,

thanks for the quick reply and the helpful advise!

Just to summarize, there really is no way to receive notifications from Google to our server for each new policy violation in any way, right? 

Facebook Ads API for example allows us to subscribe to certain events and then sends a webhook whenever a policy violation (or other selected event) happens. So we thought we must be missing a similar feature in the Google Ads API. 
But as I understand now, with Google Ads we have to poll the API in a regular interval to get this information instead, correct?

Thanks and best regards,

Dylan

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Dylan,

Thank you for reaching out. Your understanding is correct. There isn’t any specific API endpoint that deals with notification so I would suggest you query the combinedApprovalStatus attribute of the PolicySummary object regularly to monitor the policy violation of ads.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team