Determine video ad format via API?

[Ryan Allan]

Is there a way to determine a selected ad's video ad format (e.g. In-steam, Video discover, or Bumper) via API calls?

I currently get campaign performance data via API, but bumper ads' views are actually reported as impressions (whereas In-stream or Video discovery ads' views are reported as views, and their partial views are reported as impressions), which messes up my custom API-driven reports.

If I was able to discern which campaigns were using bumper ads, I could present the view data appropriately in my reports, but without a way to know which is which this is currently not possible.

I looked through the performance report fields and didn't see anything that looked like it would work, so is there a way to do this?

[Luis Xander Talag (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Ryan,

Currently, the report types of AdWords API does not support filtering data based on its video ad format. You may check this guide for the available attributes that you can use to filter for your reports. However, you may try to filter those ads based on their templateID of the AdGroupAdService then you may use that to filter your report. Take note though that these are the only template ads that is supported in the API.

Thanks and regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team

[Ryan Allan]

Thanks Luis, is this still the case with v201806? Or is there now a way to programatically determine a video ad's format?

[Luis Xander Talag (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Ryan,

I'm afraid that is still the case for v201806. The API does not support filtering report data based on its video ad format..

Regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team