How to get 'campaign type' (Search Network only”, “Display Network only”, “ Search Network with Display Select”) from google adwords api?

[Christian Borck]

When fetching a campaign performance report, we would like to know whether a campaign is a "pure" search campaign or a search campaign with display select enabled. From the documentation, its not obvious to us how to do this. Is there a way to get this information from the reporting api.

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Reports do not expose this attribute. You can only detect this by using CampaignService and checking for Campaign objects where:

1. advertisingChannelType is SEARCH
   
2. NetworkSetting.targetContentNetwork is false (for Search only campaigns) or true (for Search network with display select campaigns)
   

Some other options/tips are:

• You could include the AdNetworkType1 field in the report to detect if a campaign has impressions on the Display network.
• You could add labels to your search only or search with display select campaigns, then use those labels in your reporting filters.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team