Hello Pete, I just tried setting the multiplier for an interval to something less than 10% using the AdWords web interface and I was prevented from doing so--I received an error message stating that the multiplier needed to be between 10% and 1000%. I'm not sure why you saw something different, but as far as I can tell there is a legitimate lower bound of 10% for the multiplier.
In any case, what it seems like you want to do is make it so your campaign isn't running at all between midnight and 8am. You can achieve this by setting up an interval lasting from 8am to midnight (24:00) with the normal bid multiplier of 100% (the multiplier doesn't express total amount of spend but rather how much you'd like to modify your bids during that time span; leave it at 100% to use your normal bids). Because there is no interval from midnight to 8am, AdWords will assume that your campaign is paused during that time frame. The first time you make these changes with the AdWords API it's a good idea to double-check with the AdWords web interface's campaign settings, just to make sure everything looks right. And you could always initially make the changes with the web interface and then retrieve the campaign via the AdWords API and take a look at how the Campaign object is structured if you're not sure how to express things properly in the API. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 21, 11:11 am, "Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > If we wanted to schedule a campaign to 0% spend between Midnight and > 8am and 100% spend between 8am and Midnight, how do we designate the > multiplier for Midnight to 8am? > > Setting a multiplier of 0 for a SchedulingInterval results in an error > for an invalid multiplier ... the lowest we seem to be able to go is > 0.10 for a spend of 10% for those hours ... > > Through the MCC we can set different intervals to 0% spend, how do we > achieve the same through the API? > > Thanks > Pete --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
