Copy and pasting the followup response from Sai below. Concluding that Average Position metric will most likely not be available in the API either.
Please close thread. *Hello Leon, Since this a product level change, the metrics may eventually not be available in the API as well. As recommend in the blog post <https://ads-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/top-metrics-absolute-top-metrics-and.html> it would be ideal to start using the new metrics Regards, Sai Teja, AdWords API Team* On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:16:30 AM UTC-5, Leon Lei wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response Sai. > > Yup, I'm referring to that article. > > We'll switch to using the new prominence metrics for our bidding > applications. But if we want to still get the AveragePosition metric as > data for analysis, will it still be available in the API? I'm assuming it > won't be but want to get confirmation. > > > > On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 6:08:47 PM UTC-5, > googleadsapi-forumadvisor wrote: >> >> Hello Leon, >> >> If you are referring to this article >> <https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9263492?hl=en>, about >> sunsetting the average position. Wherever you are using AveragePosition >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/all-reports#averageposition> >> as >> a proxy to bid to a page location, switch to using the new >> SearchAbsoluteTopImpressionShare or SearchTopImpressionShare metrics. >> Please Refer this blog post >> <https://ads-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/top-metrics-absolute-top-metrics-and.html> >> for >> more information. >> >> Regards, >> Sai Teja, AdWords API Team >> >> >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> Also find us on our blog and discussion group: >> http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api >> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/ >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> >> Was your question answered? Please rate your experience with us by taking >> a short survey. >> If not -- reply to this email and tell us what else we can do to help. >> >> Take Survey >> <https://support.google.com/google-ads/contact/survey_transactional?caseid=9-7483000025597&hl=en&ctx=1> >> >> Also find us on our blog and discussion group: >> http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api >> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/ >> On 02/27/19 11:40:35 ll...@horizonmedia.com wrote: >> >> With the announcement that the Average Position metric will be deprecated >> in 2H 2019 in favor of Prominence Metrics, is it safe to assume that the >> metric will also be deprecated in the API? >> >> That post deprecation the metric will no longer be viewable in the Google >> Ads UI nor can it be requested in a report from the API? >> >> -- >> -- >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> 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/c8fbfea7-bdd7-45ea-8eb1-80c7e86433e1%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/c8fbfea7-bdd7-45ea-8eb1-80c7e86433e1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/b7d3c2bf-4016-4517-b18a-b5a29795a0bc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.