Duplicate rows in placement performance report

[Christian]

Hi,

today we encountered duplicates in a few placement performance reports. We use these reports for a long time now and did not see the problem before. We've seen that for 4 customers now. The duplicates always related to the date 2017-03-02. Here is an example:

| Day        | Ad group ID | Criterion ID | Impressions | Interactions | Conversions |

| 2017-03-02 | 15163513217 | 67659366416  |         513 |            1 |           0 |

| 2017-03-02 | 15163513217 | 67659366416  |           2 |            0 |           0 |

The field selection for the report corresponds to the columns seen here. The criterion is a managed placement.

Is this expected behaviour? I would strongly prefer to be able to expect report rows to be unique because duplicate detection on our side requires significantly more resources (RAM/IO) when dealing with very large reports.

Thanks for your support!

Best,

Christian

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi Christian,

Placement Performance Report returns rows for both automatic and managed placements. I checked and found out that the row with 513 impressions belong to the managed placements category whereas the row with 2 impressions belongs to the automatic placements category. To distinguish between automatic, managed and excluded placements in your report, please follow the steps mentioned in this guide. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Vishal, AdWords API Team

[Christian]

Hi Vishal,

thanks for investigating this issue. The hints about distinguishing managed vs. automatic placements say that automatic placements have no ID (but 2 dashes). In the report seen here, however, both rows have a real ID. So I do not see how we to tell them apart.

Regards,

Christian

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi Christian,

Could you please provide me with the SOAP XML report definition and the downloaded report so that I can look into this issue further? Also, could you please provide more details on when this criteria was added as a managed placement? Please click on Reply privately to author when responding.

[Oliver]

We're also seeing this issue in the Placement Performance Report i.e. 2 rows for the same placement (in same camapign ID).  However, in our case, both rows don't have a criterion ID which, according to the documentation of this report, mean that both rows are automatic placements.  We're puzzled as to why the 2 rows are not aggregated as per the documentation?

Oliver

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hello Oliver,

Could you do me a huge favor and start a new forum thread for this? It's a pretty old thread, so it may be a slightly different problem. You can reference this thread in your new post.

Thanks,

Nadine, Google Ads API Team
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