Ad_Performance_Report does not match UI

[Oliver]

From time to time, we come across an adgroup where the API returns more ads than there are in the UI.  API operations on those additional ads subsequently fail with a MUTATE_ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED_FOR_CLIENT  error which normally means that these ads were created in Adwords Express.  However, we are assured by the account owner that Adwords Express was never used in the history of the account.  The Campaign_Performance_Report also confirms that the channel type and subtype does not contain 'Express'.

Here is one example we came across today:

Customer ID: 2533687629. 

Camapign ID:  125023188. 

Adgroup ID:  4920116748. 

When downloading only enabled Expanded Text Ads (ETAs), the API is giving us 4 enabled ads with IDs   323197102481, 285409627137, 332424239689, 332424364303.

However, the UI is showing only one ETA with ID  285409627137.

Any idea why the API is giving more enabled ads than the UI, and why operations on these additional ads fail?

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Oliver,

Thank you for providing detailed information on your issue. Upon checking on your account I could only see this two Ids in your account. However to further investigate this, could you provide the complete report definition you used where you generated those results? Please reply via Reply privately to author.

Thanks and regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team

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