Expanded Dynamic Search Ads missing from ad_group_ad query response

[Marie P-Lavoie]

Hi!

I am currently comparing responses from the Adwords API with responses from the new Google Ads API and I see that ads of type Expanded Dynamic Search Ads are missing from the responses of the new Google Ads API.

Here is my request:

SELECT ad_group_ad.ad.call_ad.description1, ad_group_ad.ad.call_ad.description2, ad_group_ad.ad.call_ad.phone_number, ad_group_ad.ad.display_url, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_dynamic_search_ad.description, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_dynamic_search_ad.description2, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.description, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.description2, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.headline_part1, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.headline_part2, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.headline_part3, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.path1, ad_group_ad.ad.expanded_text_ad.path2, ad_group_ad.ad.final_urls, ad_group_ad.ad.gmail_ad.teaser.description, ad_group_ad.ad.gmail_ad.teaser.headline, ad_group_ad.ad.id, ad_group_ad.ad.image_ad.name, ad_group_ad.ad.legacy_responsive_display_ad.description , ad_group_ad.ad.legacy_responsive_display_ad.short_headline, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_display_ad.descriptions, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_display_ad.headlines, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.descriptions, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.headlines, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.path1, ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.path2, ad_group_ad.ad.text_ad.description1, ad_group_ad.ad.text_ad.description2, ad_group_ad.ad.text_ad.headline, ad_group_ad.ad.type, ad_group.name, campaign.name, metrics.active_view_impressions, metrics.all_conversions, metrics.all_conversions_from_interactions_rate, metrics.all_conversions_value, metrics.clicks, metrics.conversions, metrics.conversions_from_interactions_rate, metrics.conversions_value, metrics.cost_micros, metrics.cost_per_all_conversions, metrics.cost_per_conversion, metrics.cross_device_conversions, metrics.gmail_secondary_clicks, metrics.impressions, metrics.interactions, metrics.video_views, metrics.view_through_conversions, segments.keyword.ad_group_criterion
                        FROM ad_group_ad
                        WHERE metrics.impressions > 0 AND segments.date >= '2022-03-01' AND segments.date <= '2022-03-31'

Is is valid? Am I missing anything that could cause the Expanded Dynamic Search Ads to be missing from the response?

Thank you! :)

Marie

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Marie,

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

Moving forward to your concern, to investigate the issue, could you provide the complete request and response logs with request ID and request header generated on your end?

You can provide it via Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Regards,

Carmela Google Ads API Team

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[Olivier Somsay]

Hi there,

Has this issue been resolved? I face the same issue and other ad types such as 'Shopping ad (goal-optimized)' are not showing when we use the new Google Ads API (but were showing using the Google AdWords API).

Thanks,

Olivier

[Rajesh Mandalapu]

I have faced the similar issues. 

Workaround will be removing the segments.keyword.ad_group_criterion from query worked for me.

Not sure in future google will come up with some other solutions.

Thanks
Rajesh M

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi All,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

@Olivier
Could you provide more details on the same issue you are referring to and other ad types that are not showing when you use the new Google Ads API so our team can further investigate these?

@Rajesh
Thank you for giving a solution to what Olivier is experiencing. We gratefully appreciate it.

Best regards,

Heidi Google Ads API Team

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[Marie P-Lavoie]

Hi!

I found a similar solution as the one @Rajesh proposed: I removed the field "segments.keyword.info.text" in my query and the missing ads started showing up in the API response.

I also received this private response from someone on the Google Ads API support team to provide further information to the problem:

"When adding some segments, the metrics in the summary row may decrease. When segments.keyword.info.text is added to a query with FROM ad_group_ad, that segment is telling the query to only get the rows of data that have keywords, and remove any row that is not associated with a keyword. In this case, the metrics would be lower because it would exclude any non-keyword metrics."

Regards,

Marie