Image ad approval times

[Qmepop]

Hi Jeff (and team)

I am wondering if you can shed light on typical processing times for
approving image ads (specifically flash ads)?

We are wanting to set up a polling application which will check
pending campaigns / ads / keywords, and I am wanting to get a sanity
check as to how often we should be checking for a status change.

As it obviously cost API credits each time, we are not wanting to poll
too often, but likewise if typical turn around is in a few hours, then
we don't want to be checking only once a day.

Any help on this point would be most appreciated.

Also with V13, it seems like we don't get a reason back for image ad
rejection. Is this true? What can we do to give guidance to users as
to what to change on their ad to meet compliance?


TIA,
Qmepop

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hello,

I'm afraid that I don't have any information about the image ad
approval process--I have a feeling there might be different approval
timeframes for different ad types (flash vs. regular image) and
different accounts. If you have an AdWords account representative
assigned to your accounts you might want to ask them, as it's not
something that involves the API.

And no, I don't know of any way of getting back a disapproval reason
for an image ad using v13. The Ad.ApprovalStatus field in v2009 does
expose additional information:

http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/AdGroupAdService.Ad.ApprovalStatus.html

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team