copy image ad from a different account

[Yuyan Hu]

Hi Adwords API support team,

I was wondering what is the best practice to copy an image ad from one account to another? is it possible? 

I use adToCopyImageFrom field to copy images within a single account, would that work for cross account operation as well, since I think I saw someone in this group stated that ADID is not identifying 

Thank you so much!

Amber

[Yin Niu]

Hi Amber, 

You can't copy ads cross account as far as I know. You would have to create a new ad in the other account. 

Thanks,

Yin, AdWords API Team. 

[Yuyan Hu]

Hi Yin,

Thanks so much for your fast reply. sorry for not making my question clear

I understand that I have to create a new ad, I use AdGroupAdService to create the new image ad, I wish to reuse the image from a base ad(which is in another account)

the image was not uploaded with MediaService, so there is no MediaID returned when I try to get base ad information using AdGroupAdService.get(). So I was using adToCopyImageFrom to copy the image. It works fine if they are within the same account, but it does not work when they are in different accounts. 

I guess it boils down to, is there anyway to get image data from an base ad in another account, in any format that can be added to a new ad?

[Yin Niu]

Hi, 

I don't think you can do that. You can download the image from the original ad and upload in the other account.