Script for adding negative keyword list to new campaigns?

[Vy Nguyen]

I'm currently managing 60+ campaigns on AdWords. So for every new campaign I launch, I have to manually copy & paste keywords from an excel sheet to the campaign's negative keywords list. I would like to implement a script that does this automatically for me every time I create a new campaign. Can someone show me a snippet that does this? 

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Vy,

You can use the Master Negative List script, which adds a negative keyword and/or placement list automatically to your campaigns. You can either schedule the script to run Hourly or Daily to make sure that new campaigns are up to date with these lists.

Cheers,

Anthony

AdWords Scripts Team

[Vy Nguyen]

So I'm looking at the template spreadsheet for the Master Negative Keyword List. It says for Bulk Negatives, "Leave this field empty to process all the campaigns in an account." - How can I edit this to apply to only new campaigns (meaning campaigns that don't actually exist in the account yet!). 

Thanks,

Vy

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Vy,

If you want to apply the lists to only newly created campaigns, you should create a label and apply it to all those campaigns upon creation of the campaigns. Then on your spreadsheet, put the name of the label in the column next to Label for campaigns to be processed.

[Vy Nguyen]

So I tried running the script which worked, but not for every campaign in my account. Here's the log:

Not completed: Timeout
Processing spreadsheet
Exceeded maximum execution time
Exceeded maximum execution time

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Vy,

AdWords Scripts have a 30 minute execution time limit. As a workaround, I suggest creating two versions of the script with two different campaign labels. You can have one script apply the lists to one group of campaigns and one with another.

Please let me know if you have any more issues.

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords Scripts Team