Video Views Metrics correlation

[Orel Gilad]

Hi,

In the API docs, there's this metric: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v11/metrics#metrics.video_views

However, in the UI, I see this (Views):

Can you please explain what does each mean, and if they are the same?

(If not, what is the UI/API of each?)

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Orel,

Thank you for reaching us out. I am Sherwin from Google Ads API support team. I hope that you are doing well today.

Moving forward to your concern, the metrics.video_views is a metric that will show the total number of your video ads that were viewed. However, could you please provide us your customer-id of your account so that we can check on our end what is the equivalent of those set of views in the API?

Kind regards,

Sherwin Vincent Google Ads API Team

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[Orel Gilad]

It's a technical mapping question - 

Does "Views" in AdWords mean " metrics.video_views" in the API?

If not, then - 

• Views (UI) = ?? (API)
• metrics.video_views (API) = ?? (UI)
  

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Orel,

Thank you for your reply.

You can refer to our report mapping guide as well as the query migration tool in determining the mapping of AdWords API report fields to Google Ads API report fields, and for general help in constructing your GAQL queries.

For your specific question, the VideoViews (Display name =  Views) field of the AdWords API should indeed map to the metrics.video_views of the Google Ads API.

Let us know if this helps.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Google Ads API Team

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