Placement Exclusions - mobileapp::10001-ca-gmail

[Andrew Harper]

Hello!

For the life of me I cannot find a way to exclude the above placement (mobileapp::10001-ca-gmail). I have all app categories excluded from my account. I've also individually excluded gmail mobile app (both google play/IOS version) via their respected ID number/URL string. 

This placement has been skewing our numbers for weeks now and we keep blowing through budget as we receive large sums of impressions/clicks stemming from this. Any luck with anyone getting this excluded? And if so, how did you do it? Thanks for any help in advance!

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for raising this concern to the Google Ads API team.

Moving forward to your concern, it appears that this is about excluding the mobile app placement. That said, for you to be able to do this, you need to follow these steps:

1. You need to first use the remove operation of the Campaign Criterion and specify your target resource name.
2. After removing your targeted campaign criterion, you may then proceed on creating a new one, but this time since you want to exclude, you need to set the value of the negative field into true.

Regards,

Carmela Google Ads API Team

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