Hi, It appears that the current behavior of Third Party Ads is to return a destination URL of "http://ignore_this_destination.com/";. I agree that this is inconsistent with other ad types, and I'll open a dialog with the core engineering team to see if we can better align these values. In the meantime, I suggest adding this domain as a special exception in your application. There are no other fake URLs like this that I am aware of, but let us know if anything else pops up.
Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Oct 1, 5:55 am, Zweitze <zwei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We have some software that creates ads. When a new ad is created, we > check whether the domain of the destination URL is the same as every > other destination URL domain in that group - the ad policy of Adwords > requires that, so we enforce it before we submit the new ad. > The destination URLs are retrieved from a creative report. > > Recently we retrieved a creative report, where the field > 'creativedesturl' contained a very weird > value:http://ignore_this_destination.com. > > According to that same report, the ad type is 'richMediaAd' (?!) > although the web UI states 'Third Party Ad' (?!). (AdwordsAdvisor: see > adgroup 1290650060, creatives 3405546110 and 3405546200.) > In another instance, the ad type is also 'richMediaAd' but the web UI > now states 'Gadget Ad' (Adgroup 1448948919, creatives 4558938699, > 4558938789 and more) > > Obviously such URLs break my application. I know of other ad types > without destination URLs, like mobile ads, but those ads have an empty > creativedesturl. I could deal with those - return an empty URL to > suggest a NULL value. > > But this URL is something else... Is this a temporary glitch of > Adwords reports, and should we actually get empty URLs? (As I > understand, they don't really have destination URLs, as the > destination URL is created dynamically) > If not, where can I find a complete list of all 'mock-up' URLs that > Adwords may report? > > Thanis in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
