Google Ads API: Updating app_ad - adding video assets

[Aleksei Krizhanovskii]

Hello,

I am trying to update the ad within an app campaign (ACi).

More specifically I am trying to add youtube video assets.

I have got the code samples for app campaigns creation, ad_group creation, and ad creation. But I cannot work out how to modify ad_group_ad and how to add assets to it.

I tried it this way:

  ad_operation = client.get_type('AdOperation') 

  ad = ad_operation.update

  ad.resource_name = resource_name

  video = ad.app_ad.youtube_videos.add()

And this causes an AttributeError:

---> video = ad.app_ad.youtube_videos.add()

AttributeError: 'RepeatedComposite' object has no attribute 'add'

Any advice would be highly appreciated as I have no ideas how this can be done. 

And it would be extremely helpful to get a code sample of modifying an app ad in terms of adding or removing assets.

Thank you in advance,

Aleksei

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Aleksei,

App Ads aren't mutable.

Regards,

Aryeh Baker Google Ads API Team

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[Aleksei Krizhanovskii]

Thank you for the response.

That was actually not the case. Found the solution in another place.

I simply should have used 'extend' instead of 'add' which was correct for earlier API versions.

Another thing was to use the field mask in mutate_ads operation.

And the usage of ad service and ad operation instead of the ad_group_ad ones makes everything work perfectly.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Aleksei,

Thank you for your reply.

As my colleague Aryeh earlier mentioned, and as per the documentation he included, App Ads are not mutable. Therefore, mutating ads of this type would not be possible even when using the AdService.

That being said, so that our team can better understand the scenario you encountered, could you provide our team with the complete request and response logs, with the request-id, generated from the solution you mentioned?

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 Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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