Can ads disappear after they have been removed?

2018-05-22 Thread Zweitze
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 m

Re: Can ads disappear after they have been removed?

2018-05-22 Thread 'Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum
Hi Zweitze, As always, it's nice to hear from you! I hope you are doing well. You've given me the present of yet another strange puzzle. I wasn't aware that ads could just disappear. Like you, I'm only aware of other entities that could be removed permanently, but I didn't think ads were one of

Re: Can ads disappear after they have been removed?

2018-06-13 Thread Zweitze
Hi Nadine, Any updates? I have a few more missing ads: Group 51744783117: Ads 250529940411, 250529940414, 250529940417 Group 51744783317: Ads 250529940429, 250529940432, 250529940435 Group 51744783357: Ads 250529940438, 250529940441, 250529940444 These ads were created on Feb 9, and on May 17 the

Re: Can ads disappear after they have been removed?

2018-06-13 Thread Zweitze
Hey Nadine, Any updates? I think I have an explanation - it's due to the possibility that now most ad properties can be changed (until a few months ago only status could be changed - for other changes you had to set the status to deleted and created a new ad with the desired properties). Our so

Re: Can ads disappear after they have been removed?

2018-06-13 Thread 'Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum
Hi Zweitze, The "disappeared ads" seems to be an issue at our end. The case you mentioned is another possibility, but doesn't seem to be the root cause of this issue as far as I can tell. I've pinged the team for updates, and will share them as I hear back. Cheers Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API