Thank you, that is helpful. I have tried calling AdGroupAdService.get on several ad IDs that I know are video ads. Sometimes this works fine, and I can infer that (for example) template ID 49 is Pre Roll and template ID 9 is Click to Play. But sometimes I pass in an Ad ID and I get nothing back in the results. This is puzzling to me, because I can see the Ad ID in the report. Do you know of any reasons that no result would come back for a given Ad ID?
On Dec 30, 11:26 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The video ads you create using the web interface's "Display Ad > Builder" will be returned as TemplateAds in v2009: > > http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/AdGroupAdSer... > > The specific template being used, such as "Click to Play" or "In- > Stream", is noted by the field templateId. We are still working on > how best to expose the currently available templates, but a few get() > requests will allow you to determine the mapping yourself. > > Best, > - Eric > > On Dec 30, 10:45 am, "j.e.frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to find out the specific type of > > ad through other API services? I can't see anything in the > > AdGroupAdService that would let me distinguish these ads from one > > another, but maybe I am missing something. My first preference would > > be to find out through the report, since that lets me get the ad type > > information at the same time as I am retrieving performance data, but > > really I'm just looking for any automated way to get it. > > > On Dec 30, 10:26 am, AdWords API Advisor > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Unfortunately that level of detail isn't exposed through reporting, in > > > both the web interface and API. > > > > Best, > > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > > On Dec 30, 9:20 am, "j.e.frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to write a report that will show stats for our campaigns > > > > that have video ads, and I want to distinguish between "click-to-play" > > > > video ads and "pre-roll" video ads. I'm running a Creative report > > > > (aka Ad Performance in the UI) to get the data. The problem I have > > > > is that both kinds of video ads come through in the XML as > > > > creativeType="gadgetTemplate". How can I tell which specific type of > > > > ad it is? -- 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.
