Bug Report: AccountPerformanceReport does not include data from Universal App Campaigns

[AdWordsApiUser]

 AccountPerformanceReport does not include data from Universal App Campaigns, but the Campaign Performance Report does.

How to Repro:

1. Download Account Performance Report for an account that has some Universal App Campaigns with impressions

2. Download Campaign Performance Report for the same account

3. Sum of Campaigns Peformance Report metrics is more than account performance report. The difference is equal to the sum of all universal app campaigns.

AdWords UI shows correct value.

Thanks

MG

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi MG,

To be able to further debug, for each report, could you please provide me with the SOAP XML report definition and the downloaded report? Please click on Reply privately to author when responding. 

Regards,

Vishal, AdWords API Team

[AdWordsApiUser]

Hi Vishal,

I'm not at liberty to share the report data, however here are the AWQL queries that you can run on an account that has data in Universal App Campaigns:

Account Performance Report

SELECT Impressions FROM ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

Campaign Performance Report

SELECT Impressions, CampaignId FROM CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

And compare the totals for Impressions. This should be an easy repro. 

Thanks,

MG

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi MG,

I'm afraid I don't have access to extract data from your account for comparison purposes. To be able to proceed with your issue, I would need the SOAP XML report definitions and the downloaded data files for each of the reports. Please click on Reply privately to author when responding.

[AdWordsApiUser]

I have sent you a private message with relevant details.

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Universal App Campaign data is only available in the Campaign Performance Report currently. I can share your feedback with the team that you'd like it in other reports as well.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[AdWordsApiUser]

Thanks Mike!

Is this documented somewhere so that I can share that with the relevant folks? IMO, this is a bug because the data does not match between AdWords UI and ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT.

Regards,

MG

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello MG,

I reply to this thread instead of Mike as he is on vacation.

So far we have provided the data only via CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT (since v201603 I believe).

It was written in the release note but v201603 was already sunset, so unfortunately I can't give you to the v201603 release note anymore.

By the way, we do have the section for Universal App Campaign in this guide.

And I see that actually ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT is in the list.

I'll double-check with engineering team to see if the list has a mistake or there is an issue in the report data as you kindly reported.

I'll contact you later when I have more updates.

Best,

Thanet, AdWords API Team

[AdWordsApiUser]

Thanks Thanet for your reply. Will wait for an update from you :-)

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello MG,

I've tried running the report query as you suggested using last 30 days as a predicate.

However, I couldn't reproduce the issue you reported.

What I can see is the total number of impressions returned by both CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT and ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT matches exactly with that shown in UI. 

(I can share the data and screenshot with you if you wish)

Did you see the large differences between all these three sources?

During my test, the numbers did change a bit (tens - hundreds in impressions), which is probably because the system was updating some impression data.

So, if you see discrepancy in such a degree, I think it works as intended.

Cheers,

Thanet, AdWords API Team

[AdWordsApiUser]

Thanks for the quick turn around. I sent you some more details privately.