Eric: A previous posting response on this topic indicated that automatic placement have their data included in the keyword performance report. Did you mean to say managed placements in your reply? By comparing the details of the data I get via the API for keyword performance and managed placements performance, with what I see on the web interface, I find campaigns that contain only display network activity to be entirely missing from the data pulled via the keyword performance reports. That makes sense, since they don't have keywords. I also saw a similar situation with an account that had some video ads.
When I say that the data is "missing" what I am saying is that the totals (clicks, impressions, cost, etc) don't add up to the data that comes in the account performance reports for a given account on a given day. Where I was going with my post was to get a confirmation that the only way to get that type of "missing" information is to download the ad performance reports via the API, and then extract from that data the rows for display network, etc. I don't see a way to use a filter on the ad performance report definition to tell it to not send me search network data, since the filtering seems to be a matter of specifying criteria for inclusion, and not criteria for excluding certain data. It would be nice if that were possible, because pulling the ad performance report for highly active accounts results in pretty large files, 99% of which is the search network activity. So it boils down to two questions: Am I going in the right direction to get the pieces of "missing" data, and 2) is there any other source of data that flows into the account performance reports that I am not taking into account? thanks much, Reed -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
