Need to replicate the behavior of AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

[Matías Dell'Oso]

Hello,

I am trying to migrate the AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT to Google Ads:

Currently for that report we are including Campaign, AdGroup, AdGroupAd and  Criterion levels plus segments and some metrics. The problem is that in AdWords CriterionId retrieve metrics for all criterion types, but in GoogleAds CriterionId is mapped to segments.keyword.ad_group_criterion so it retrieves only keywords stats, if we don't have keywords the reports comes empty.

After some chats we Nadine from support we ended up with the option of making as many request as criterion types we need and then merge them. The problem is that criterion views (for example: topic_view, age_range_view , gender_view) don't have access to ad level (ad_group_ad) so we can't replicate the same behavior than AdWords.

So my question is, do you have some advice or workaround to adapt this new feature? Now this changes make us refactor a big part of our code and we are close to the sunset.

Regards,

Matías.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello Matias,

I'm Jinky from Google Ads API Team also. Thanks for reaching out to us.

For us to check your concern and to provide appropriate suggestions, could you provide the report definition to know the exact query that you've used in Adwords API? Also, can you please provide the Customer ID of the Google Ads account where you generate reports using Adwords API?

You can send the information I requested using the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Best regards,

Jinky Mandaya Google Ads API Team

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[Matías Dell'Oso]

Done.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Matías,

Thank you for sharing your logs and your previous conversation with our colleague Nadine.

However, there is currently no direct way for you to be able to associate other criteria to the ad_group_ad report. What Nadine shared (After some chats we Nadine from support we ended up with the option of making as many request as criterion types we need and then merge them) should be the current workaround for this.

That said, I can create a feature request, subject for review, for the ad_group_ad report to support segmenting other criteria types. You may provide as well your complete use case for this feature so that I may include this in the said feature request.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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