Account label limit

[Mark]

Hello,

I'm looking to implement a feature to automatically apply account labels to client accounts. While the basic feature works, I have a few questions about scalability.

The Ad Words API docs clearly state that one label can only be added to 1000 accounts at most, a limitation we'd hit rather soon. The Google Ads API equivalent, CustomerLabelService, does not seem to have such a limitation, or at least it's not documented. 

So, my questions:
1) Is the 1000-accounts-per-label limitation actually in place for both Ad Words and Google Ads APIs? 
2) If so, is there any way -- with either API -- to check how many accounts any one label has been attached to? 

Cheers,
Mark

[Mat]

Hi Mark,

1) 1000 as the maximum number of accounts a label can be applied to seems to be the Goolge Ads API limit too:
https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/system-limits#label

2) You could pull a customer_label report and just count the rows or the number of different "customer_label.resource_name" you get.

Cheers

Mat

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for bringing this question to our attention. As posted by another user, there is still the limit of 1000 as posted here. As for a best way to try and keep within the limit? Would most likely suggest grouping customers with similar label in blocks.

As for who is associated with the label? You could try to also use the customer_label.customer . And depending on how you manage the return on it, can get some list/array with a size/length.

Regards,

William Pescherine Google Ads API Team

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[Mark]

Thank you both. I tried retrieving the the customer label relationships using customer_label, however, the query results always comes back empty. The labels exists (they do come back when doing a SELECT ... FROM label ... query), I can see the labels have been attached to multiple accounts through the UI, but even if I omit the WHERE clause from customer_label, I don't get anything other than empty results. Why could that be?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

I work with William and allow me to assist you for now.

As for your query that is currently not returning results, could you Reply privately to author and provide to me the complete request and response logs, with the request-id? 

If you haven't yet, logging can be enabled by navigating to the Client libraries > Your client library (ex. Java) > Logging documentation, which you can access from this link.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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[Mark]

Hello,

Thanks for the swift reply! I have the data you requested, however, I cannot reply privately. The option, reply to author, is grayed out and a tooltip appears, saying, "You do not have permission to reply to author in this group". Is there anything I missed? 

Cheers,
Mark

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Mark,

If you are unable to reply privately, you can email us googleadsa...@google.com.

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony Madrigal Google Ads API Team

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