Video campaigns appearing under a campaign group in the AdWords UI, but not being returned on reports via the API.

[Austin Smith]

I am seeing cases of AdWords video campaigns that are being displayed as existing under a campaign group when I look at the AdWords UI.

However, when I download a report for campaigns under this ad account via an API call, the campaigns are not returned.

Why would this be the case?

[Peter Oliquino (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Austin,

Video campaign performance data, in general, should be available in the AdWords API's reports. However, certain types of video campaigns, say for example, TrueView for Reach, are currently not supported. In order to determine that this is indeed what is missing in your AdWords API reports, could you provide to me your clientCustomerId, your complete report definition and the screenshot of the AdWords UI view containing your video campaigns? You may send the requested information by using the Reply privately to author option.

Note:

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Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello, 

Posting the summary of the offline discussion for the benefit of other users of the forum:

Video campaigns having the Campaign Sub type of "Reach" are experimental campaign type and is filtered out of all AdWords API requests. You may not be able to get that using the API. You will be able to identify these campaigns from the user interface by looking for Campaign subtype of Reach. If you have these campaigns in your account, data discrepancies between the API and the UI are expected. 

Thanks,
Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team