managed_placement_view and group_placement_view

[Johan Alpne]

Hello team,

We are currently using the managed_placement_view resource to fetch managed placements and are now looking at adding automatic placements by using the group_placement_view resource.

We have read that the managed_placement_view returns all of the metrics from placements that are manually managed. While group_placement_view does the same but for automatic placements. However when we query these resources for one of our customers we get almost the same number of impressions with a small difference (10 874 vs 10 852) but exactly the same amount of clicks for a specific campaign. The same pattern is appearing for all campaigns that we have tested (a handful).

We thought that was strange so we did a query from the campaign resource which should include all of the impressions for the same campaigns as above. To our surprise the number of impressions was an exact match with the managed placement query. So our question is this: What does the number of impressions from the group placement view represent?

Best regards,

Johan Alpne

Developer @ Funnel

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Johan,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team. I hope that you are doing well today.

I understand your concern and to further help you investigate this, could you please provide us the complete request and response logs with request ID and request header generated on your end? You can provide it via Reply privately to the author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

In addition, could you please provide us the full non-cropped and non-redacted screenshot of the UI to see if the report in managed placement view and group placement view are matched in the API.

Reference links:

• request - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#request
• response - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#response
• request ID - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request-id
• request header - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request_headers

 

This message is in relation to case "ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2m9NsB:ref"

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team