Hello Tim, I did hear back from the reports engineering team, and yes, you are getting an empty creativeType attribute back because it's a TV Ad. All TV Ads will come back with an empty creativeType.
Unfortunately, that isn't to say that whenever you see an empty creativeType it necessarily corresponds to a TV Ad. There are a number of other (what might be described as less common, and in some cases deprecated) ad types that will also lead to an empty creativeType attribute. Some of those ad types include print ads, gadget ads, and audio ads. I know that can lead to some uncertainty when it comes to parsing report results, and apologies for that. The reports engineer I spoke to was not sure about the historical reasons behind this behavior. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 22, 11:40 am, timprepscius <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks > > On May 21, 3:35 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hello Tim, > > > I'm waiting to hear back from the Reports Engineering team as to > > confirm whether you're getting back an empty creative type because > > this is a TV Ad (which I do think is the case) and furthermore, > > whether they know of any other ad types that might come back as empty. > > Once I know, I'll let you know. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On May 21, 2:08 pm, timprepscius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > Would somebody either point me to a documentation page, or ask a > > > developer: > > > are tv ads always creativeType="" or is this because this ad is > > > screwed up, is there a mechanism to tell if the ad is a tv ad, if this > > > creativeType will always be empty? > > > > .. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim > > > > On May 20, 2:09 pm, timprepscius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > During my synchronization yesterday I got the following row: > > > > > <row acctname="XXX XXXX" customerid="#########" > > > > campaignid="###########" campaign="XXX YYY" adgroupid="###########" > > > > adgroup="AdGroup #1" headline="" desc1="" desc2="" creativeVisUrl="" > > > > creativeid="##########" creativeType="" creativeStatus="Enabled" > > > > agStatus="Enabled" creativeDestUrl="" campStatus="Active" > > > > imps="43080"></row> > > > > > Which, my synchronizer didn't like, cause creativeType="" > > > > > I'm looking in the UI, and I see that this ad refers to a TV ad. Or > > > > presumably so, there is only one ad. > > > > > So.. > > > > > Are all tv ads creativeType="" ?? Or do our account managers need to > > > > do something more? > > > > > I can provide all of the ids, but probably shouldn't do so on this > > > > bulletin board. > > > > > -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
