Distinction between "regular Ad" and "Ad suggestion's Ad"

[Thanh Nguyen]

Hi, I'm currently looking into Ad suggestion, and how to work with it via the API.

My question:

1. When getting Ad via the API (either AdWords or Ads v2), what field(s) differentiate "normal Ad from manual input" from "auto-applied Ad suggestion's Ad".

2. Through research the Ad in AdWords have field "automated" and Ads v2 have "added_by_goolge_ads", is this what I'm looking for?

 2.1. Both the field only have vague description, and only of type Boolean, & feel like it can encompass multiple scenario, is it guarantee that it only for "auto-applied Ad suggestion"

3. In the About ad suggestion page, at the "Can I edit ad suggestions?", it said "Any edit to an ad suggestion will remove this tag, and the ad will no longer appear in the “Auto-applied ad suggestion” column on the ads table.", is there any way to circumvent this, or way to tell it WAS Google auto-applied (Because we are 3rd parties between Google Ads and Advertiser via the API, we need to give our customer clear indication that those auto-applied ads aren't from us)

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hello,

Thank you for writing to us. Please find my response to your queries below.

• When getting Ad via the API (either AdWords or Ads v2), what field(s) differentiate "normal Ad from manual input" from "auto-applied Ad suggestion's Ad": You could use the ad_group_ad resource to retrieve the details for the ads created manually or Google Ads in your account via API. The field "ad_group_ad.ad.added_by_google_ads" will indicate whether the ad is added by Google Ads as suggestions for new ads. To retrieve the ad suggestions, you could also use the recommendation resource. Please refer to this guide for more details on recommendation types and getting these via API.

• Through research the Ad in AdWords have field "automated" and Ads v2 have "added_by_goolge_ads", is this what I'm looking for? Both the field only have vague description, and only of type Boolean, & feel like it can encompass multiple scenario, is it guarantee that it only for "auto-applied Ad suggestion": Yes, these fields indicates that the ads are automatically added as ad suggestions and are not added manually or via API.

• In the About ad suggestion page, at the "Can I edit ad suggestions?", it said "Any edit to an ad suggestion will remove this tag, and the ad will no longer appear in the “Auto-applied ad suggestion” column on the ads table.", is there any way to circumvent this, or way to tell it WAS Google auto-applied (Because we are 3rd parties between Google Ads and Advertiser via the API, we need to give our customer clear indication that those auto-applied ads aren't from us): Once the ad suggestions are edited, the auto applied label is removed and the ads becomes the standard ads which are no more visible in the Recommendations tab in the UI. It is not possible to distinguish between the edited ad suggestions and the regular ads via API or UI.

Let us know if you need any further clarifications.

Regards,
Nikisha Patel, Google Ads API Team

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