Dear Adwords API support,
Since the release of V201309 a few features went out of beta, Dynamic Search Ads being one of them. We would like to implement better support for DSA for our users and are investigating the possibilities now DSA API support is available for everyone. A question we have is: What is the recommended way to retrieve DSA performance data (stats and conversion data) aggregated at theAd level? We've researched two possible ways to achieve this: A) Retrieving it via the Ad performance report The Ad performance report offers the AdType field to filter on specific ad types. The predicate 'DYNAMIC_SEARCH_AD' has been noted in the Ad performance report type definition<https://google-developers.appspot.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#ad> table for some time now, but using it would never return DSA data because DSA was a Beta feature and the data was filtered out of the Ad Performance report for non beta users, as Kevin Winter points out here <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/adwords-api/pr0h87cwnMk/8T21CjftUqEJ>in response to a user who suspected the DSA results were filtered out of the Ad Performance report. We expected that after the release of v201309 and DSA being out of beta, using this predicate for the adtype field would now give us the dsa-ad specific performance data in the ad performance report. Tests however have shown that this is not the case. B) Retrieving it using the 'Keywordless Query' or the 'Keywordless Category' report Another possibility we researched is using the Keywordless report types. Problem is that neither report type is focussed on ad level, but aggregate data on category level and search term level. They contain no fields that we can use to directly match performance data to a specific DSA ad (like an Ad ID field) Is itexpected behaviour on the API's end that the Ad Performance report still has DSA data filtered out now DSA is out of beta? In that case it might be good the remove 'DYNAMIC_SEARCH_AD' as a predicate from the report type definition, as it can confuse API users. If it is not the case will the ad performance report include the DSA Ad data in the near future? What is your recommended way of retrieving DSA performance data aggregated on ad level? Kind regards, Jaap-Jan Frans bGenius -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
