Clarification on returned date ranges for bid landscapes services.

[petros...@gmail.com]

Hi, 

I'm running daily queries where I utilize the Google's DataService to pull data on bid landscapes at the keyword criterion level. When checking for the distinct start date and end date for our current run of ds = 2018-12-16, I was returned these results:

From these results, you notice that there are a lot of distinct ranges. To give more context, we have about 5300 rows (criterion bid landscapes). Could you clarify what the returned data ranges signify. Is it the most recent bid landscape data Google has saved for that criterion. How often should we expect a change in the date ranges? Any insight would be great? 

Thanks

[Dannison Yao (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Petros,

The startDate and endDate of the CriterionBidLandscape signify the date range of when the landscape is based. Bid landscapes are based on past performance, so date ranges are typically could be up to a week ago.

Regards,

Dannison

AdWords API Team

[petros...@gmail.com]

Hi, Thanks for your answer. Is it expected for some of the start and end dates to be different for the criterias. If you look at the image I posted, I had some with start dates on 12/4 and others starting at 12/11. All of these pulls were on the same day, 12/16. 

[Dannison Yao (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Petros,

To help me understand your concern and for further investigation, could you provide the complete SOAP request and response logs that were generated when you ran the bid landscapes? You may provide them using the Reply privately to author option.

You may take note that with bid landscapes you can examine performance statistics for the past week at the current level of bidding, alongside simulated performance over the same time period using different bid amounts.

If you would need further confirmation on how estimates are being done, you may also check with the Google Ads Community Forum as they may provide further insights on this on the product level perspective.

Regards,

Dannison

AdWords API Team

[petros...@gmail.com]

I'm not sure why its needed for me to provide my soap response logs. I'm just asking if it is expected for the Google Data Service to not always return the same date range.  As you can see in the table I posted, I have some bid landscape data for some keywords from 12-04 to 12-10 and for others with 12-10 to 12-15. All of these calls were done on the ds date, 12-16. 

[Luis Xander Talag (AdWords API Team)]

Hi there,

SOAP request and response logs are usually asked together with the screenshots of your AdWords UI because we need to validate whether the values from both platforms are similar or not to identify if the issue is specific to API or not. Please note that AdWords API mimics the same behavior as the UI so we should confirm if the UI returns the same data as well..

Regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team