RE: unable to link some life events to audience

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

I understand that you are encountering errors while trying to create an Audience via the Google Ads API. Create and update an audience using the AudienceService. Each Audience must have a unique name. Audiences are made up of audience segments and other audience dimensions, including age, gender, household income, and parental status. A segment can be only one of the following:

• User list segments
• Affinity or in-market segments
• Life event segments
• Detailed demographic segments
• Custom audience segments

With regard to the 'DIMENSION_INVALID​​'​​​​​ error you are encountering, please provide us with the "complete API logs" (request and response with request-id and request header) generated at your end.

If you are using a client library and haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the specific client library that you are using. You can refer to the guides Java, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.

You can send the details via Reply privately to the author option, or direct private reply to this email.

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Google Ads API Team

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[Gregory Gao]

Hello, 

I have sent the requested details privately last week and would appreciate any updates. Also I'm not sure why the original message got deleted.

Thank you.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello,

I've passed your example over to the team to investigate the root cause, but unfortunately, I don't have any information from them to share yet. I will keep an eye on their progress and let you know if I learn anything.

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Michael Cloonan Google Ads API Team

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[Gregory Gao]

Noted, thank you.

Meanwhile, I am getting a similar error when adding detailed demographics when creating audience.

For example, this detailed demographic id 30039 - Parental Status is returned in the Google Query for the account, but it does not show in the UI and gives an error when trying to include it in the API.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Can you provide a request/response example for the new issue you mentioned so that I can investigate further? It might be an extension of the current one we're investigating or something different, so I want to be sure.

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Michael Cloonan Google Ads API Team

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[2025-08-15 13:50:01Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01sxRjx:ref" (ADR-00323031)

[Gregory Gao]

Hi Michael,

I have sent the request/response for the detailed demographic case. It might be unrelated because parental status is not a selectable option in the UI. 
 

For the life events I originally raised, they don't appear in the UI at all. For example life event id 95029 (Becoming an Empty Nester).

Thanks.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello Gregory,

This is Thanet from the Google Ads API support team, responding while Mike is out of the office. We are investigating the issue concerning life events with our engineering team. Based on similar past cases, the DIMENSION_INVALID error likely indicates that the specific life event is not yet supported in the API. We will update you as soon as we have more information.
 

Thanks,
 

Thanet Knack Praneenararat Google Ads API Team

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