Feature Request: Add WiFi as Valid Carrier CampaignCriterion in API

[Mark Rogoyski]

It seems like you cannot currently add WiFi as a campaign targeting setting like you can mobile carriers as a Carrier using CampaignCriterionService. Therefore, I'd like to propose the following feature enhancement to CampaignCriterionService.

Request:

Capability to ADD WiFi targeting using CampaignCriterionService.

This missing feature has been available via the AdWords UI for a long time. Furthermore, if you query for data using CampaignCriterionService, campaigns that have WiFi targeting set will come back in the API as a CampaignCriterion Carrier with ID 79999, so that data already seems to be in the system and accessible via the API--you just can't ADD it via the API.

Related Request:

Once the above has been implemented, add WiFi (ID 79999) to ConstantDataService's getCarrierCriterion operation.

WiFi currently does not come back from ConstantDataService, which makes sense since you cannot currently target it with the API. But if it becomes targetable via the API, then it makes sense for ConstantDataService to also provide WiFi as a Carrier.

Thanks for considering our request.

Mark

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion! I will pass it along to the team who does prioritization to see if this can be added. I won't be able to confirm here, so make sure to watch our blog for the latest updates to the API.

Regards,
Mike, AdWords API Team

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

After some more digging, I have found that this is actually already possible via the API. We are working on the bug you mentioned where this is not reported in the ConstantDataService, but you should be able to make a Carrier criteria with an ID of 79999 for this use case.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Mark Rogoyski]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your reply. I see that you are correct in that you can add WiFi targeting via the API. I was using ConstantDataService to provide my Carrier objects, but if I manually make a Carrier object and set it to WiFi's 79999 it works. Thanks!

Also FYI, the documentation then on this page appears to be wrong then:

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/targetingtypes

Note: It's currently not possible to target WIFI traffic in the API.

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Thanks, I'll make sure that documentation gets fixed.