Hi Richard, It may be that the documentation on *MediaService* is outdated. Have you tried uploading your video via that service and it failed?
Also, are you looking to set up these ads for an AdWords for Video campaign or a regular AdWords campaign? I ask because the AdWords API does not currently support managing AdWords for Video campaigns. Thanks, Josh, AdWords API Team On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 6:25:51 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote: > > Ok thanks for this. I was hoping to just link a YouTube video as the > media, not have to upload the video again. I see that the MediaService has > an upload function which currently only supports images, is there any plan > to allow uploading of videos in the near future? > > Thanks > Richard > > On Thursday, 16 July 2015 04:38:28 UTC+12, Anthony Madrigal wrote: >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> When creating video template ads >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/template-ads#video_ads>, >> >> you will need to use a video that is uploaded through the AdWords UI (since >> it is not supported through API). You are required to do so since the media >> ID is used to create the video ad and is used to retrieve video ads through >> the *MediaService.* >> >> Regards, >> Anthony >> AdWords API Team >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/0fddc481-bf92-4775-8202-4a97d2330b8b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
