Hi all, When an ad is removed, according to the documentation its status is changed to "removed" and it becomes read-only, so it will never be enabled again. But, you can still request it, and you will get all its properties.
However, I find more and more examples of ads that stop existing. I mean, they can no longer be requested. The ad seems to have disappeared. This sounds incredible but starting this year I started to witness "disappeared" ads. And I never witnessed this behaviour in the previous ten years or so. I have some sample ids (pairs of adgroupid+adid): 51500212996 266833925427 51500212996 266833925430 51500213716 266833925481 51500213716 266833925484 51500214436 266833925655 51500214436 266833925658 51500215396 266833925727 51500215396 266833925730 So, these ads did appear in ad reports earlier this year, but they no longer appear. We learned of its existance with reporting in AdWords API, the report type was AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. But if you request the same report now, they no longer exist. Note: I do know of similar behavior with keywords: they may actually disappear, this happens when a keyword was deleted, and never had any impression. But that was only keywords. Can this policy have been extended to ads as well? Is it also introduced in other AdWords API objects, like managed placements, or ad extensions, or groups? Under what conditions do ads disappear? Maybe a link to a blog article is helpful. If ads can actually disappear as I noticed, is it possible that its ID will be reused within the same group? In other words, can later a different ad (with different headlines, description, final URLs etc.etc.) appear using the same adid? Note: I realize this is actually a product question, but it's hard to explain the significance of a disappearing ad vs. an existing ad with status "removed", and I think the question on adid reuse is a question which is better answered by the API team. Thanks in advance! -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 and Google Ads 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 https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/54dfb03b-fabb-4805-a787-93a598ba4ceb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
