Hi Mark, Thank you for your patience in clarifying that it's disappearance of named mobile app placements that is the issue. I zeroed in quickly on the anonymous placements and missed that point. I'm running it by a few of the folks here to see if they know of anything general that could have caused that. I'll get back to you soon.
Regards, Nadine, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 1:14:54 PM UTC-5, Mark Rogoyski wrote: > > Hi Nadine, > > The issue isn't the anonymous placements. Those have always been there. > The issue is that the named mobile app placements stopped showing up from > Nov 3 onward, where as prior to Nov 3 we could see the mobile app > placements in the reports. So now all we see are the anonymous placements. > We can no longer see all the non-anonymous placements. > > Please let me know if you need any other information to troubleshoot. > Thank you. > Mark > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 6:15:30 AM UTC-8, Nadine Sundquist > (AdWords API Team) wrote: >> >> Hello Mark, >> >> Thank you for providing the detailed information. It helps to know that >> the behavior is the same in both the user interface and the API. >> >> What you're seeing is called anonymous placements. They've existed for a >> couple of years, but not everyone sees them. The first post here >> <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/AdWords-Tracking-and-Reporting/What-does-quot-anonymous-google-quot-mean-in-my-Placement/td-p/473414#U473414> >> provides >> a pretty good explanation on how anonymous placements show up when >> publishers do not want to give their URL. It is possible to exclude >> these publishers >> <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2454012?hl=en#mobileapps> >> from your campaign. I don't currently know of a reason why you would all of >> a sudden be seeing anonymous placements on a specific day. Perhaps, there >> was an exclusion in the campaign before that was keeping these anonymous >> placements from showing up. >> >> Best, >> Nadine, AdWords API Team >> >> On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:42:56 PM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist >> (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> Thanks for such a detailed explanation. I don't know of any recent >>> changes in the URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. I could really use your help on >>> figuring out one more thing, since my account doesn't have enough data to >>> give this a try. Is this also happening in the AdWords user interface when >>> you pull up the same report? Can you send me a campaign ID where you're >>> seeing this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nadine, AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:35:25 PM UTC-5, Mark Rogoyski wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> It seems that the behavior of the URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT changed on >>>> November 3, 2015. Can someone confirm this? >>>> >>>> Prior to Nov 3, if you had a mobile app install campaign that targeted >>>> broad placements such as mobile app categories, the URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT >>>> would report stats for the individual mobile apps that the ad showed in >>>> (the Url and DisplayName name columns). This was useful to see where the >>>> ads were showing at a granular mobile app level, even though the biddable >>>> placement was at a broader category level. Same for conversion optimizer >>>> campaigns. >>>> >>>> However, since Nov 3, the URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT no longer seems to >>>> report the mobile apps, but instead is empty, or shows strings such as the >>>> following format in the Url and DisplayName >>>> columns: af0ecc031d813429.anonymous.google >>>> >>>> Was there an intended change to how the URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT reports >>>> mobile apps when targeting broad mobile app category placements that >>>> happened on Nov 3? Querying for dates prior to Nov 3 still bring back the >>>> mobile app IDs. Querying for Nov 3 and onward exhibits the new behavior. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Mark >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/c989fa0d-e589-4fd0-b5ed-23a138bcdd6e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
