Create CustomAudience in a BatchJob

[Lorenzo Scortichini]

Hi, 

we were looking to add custom audiences to our campaigns.

Currently we create all the resources (campaigns, ad groups, adsets, ad, assets and so on) using BatchJobs. 

While looking at the docs I realized that the MutateOperation is missing 'custom_audience_operation' field. Is that intended? 

In the Batch Processing docs, Custom Audience aren't listed as unsupported operations.

Any chance we can create them with BatchJobs?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

I will check with our team regarding your issue and one of my team members will reach out to you once we have an update on this. Meanwhile, your patience is highly appreciated.

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Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello - 

It does appear as though custom audiences is missing here. I'm going to investigate internally to see if there's a reason this was left out, and if not will request that it be added in an upcoming release.
 

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Thanks,
 

Ben Karl Google Ads API Team

[Lorenzo Scortichini]

Hello Ben,

thanks for the feedback.

Looking forward to an update on the matter.

Regards

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello - 

Just letting you know that I've issued this as a bug and not a feature request, as the expectation is that all resources should be mutable via a MutateOperation. If the change were to be made in the API, I'm not sure how long it would take, but it would have to be part of an upcoming release. I recommend keeping an eye on our release documentation to see when this gets fixed, and in the meantime you can use the CustomAudienceService to issue one-off mutate requests for custom audiences.

[Lorenzo Scortichini]

Hi Ben,

I just noticed the fix wasn't included in the 16.1 release. Is there any chance it will be included in v17?

We stalled the development waiting for it to be fixed but if it's not coming in the v17 we may decide to do it with the CustomAudienceService.

Thanks 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello - 

Thanks for following up. It doesn't look like the team was able to prioritize this, unfortunately. I don't know when they'll be able to get it on the roadmap, so for the meantime I recommend continuing to use CustomAudienceService.