Country Code for Asset Group Listing Group Filter

[Kevin]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the asset_group_listing_group_filter and in particular, I'm interested in the product_bidding_category fields. The field description says to go to the following link for more information about the product_bidding_category_id:

Google product category [google_product_category] - Google Merchant Center Help

I've used this before, but it was my understanding that product categories exist in the context of a Country and Language. For instance, in the ad_group_criterion.listing_group.case_value.product_bidding_category the country_code is provided and I use that when I query the product_bididng_category_constant.

Where can I find the corresponding country_code for asset_groups?

Thanks,

Kevin

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for reaching out to our API support team.

In this example and in this section, you may see that the ProductBiddingCategoryInfo is one of the listing dimensions that can be used when creating your filter. Now,  looking into its documentation and comparing it to the asset_group_listing_group_filter report, we can then see that only the two below fields can be extracted :

• asset_group_listing_group_filter.case_value.product_bidding_category.id
• asset_group_listing_group_filter.case_value.product_bidding_category.level

Since the country_code says that it should "It must match the campaign.shopping_setting.sales_country field.", and if you have initially set this in your Performance Max campaign for retail, then you can generate the campaign report and extract the campaign.shopping_setting.sales_country to get this value, since it should be the same.

However, if in the Google Ads UI the country_code attribute is available directly for the asset group listing group filter, you may provide to our team a screenshot of the UI view containing this information so our team can then create a feature request, subject for review, for its support in the API.

Should your screenshot contain your user / account information, you may then send the requested information via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Google Ads API Team

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[Kevin]

Hi Peter,

I'm familiar with this documentation as well:

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the country_code says that it should "It must match the campaign.shopping_setting.sales_country field.",

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However, it looks like it's possible for Campaigns to have no campaign.shopping_setting.sales_country field set, but still have product categories.

On thing I'd like to mention as well for context is this blog post:

Country targeting in Shopping Ads campaigns is changing in August 2022

It was announced that sales_country was going to be replaced by feed_label.

I thought it might be the case that we are guaranteed a feed_label if no sales_country exists but that doesn't appear to be the case.

To reproduce this,

1. create a new Performance Max Campaign with a merchant store

2. have it target all feeds (so there's no feed_label - there already won't be a sales_country on the Campaign)

3. create a listing group that uses product category

Thanks,

Kevin

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Yes, your understanding is correct that it's possible for retail PMAX campaigns to have no campaign.shopping_setting.sales_country field set. However, could you provide the complete logs generated for your new Performance Max Campaign with a merchant setting without sales_country used to create a listing group that uses product category, so that we can provide specific recommendations? You may send us logs via reply privately to author option.

Regards,

Yasar Google Ads API Team

 

 

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