Hi Dorian, This is a side-effect of how aggregation works in AdWords. In the MCC view, you are looking at a list of all accounts. At this level, it's not known whether these statistics include video campaigns or regular campaigns (since we're looking at the account as a whole). The same thing applies for an AdGroupPerformance report - you may be looking at clicks/impressions/etc that are associated with DynamicSearchAds (which are not currently exposed via the API), but because you're looking at a higher level of aggregation their statistics are included. It is only when one looks at statistics at the level of an entity (where said entity is not normally available) that it becomes possible to filter these statistics.
I know this is a pain point for many developers. We're always working with the engineering teams to expose more objects in the API, but it's not always feasible or desirable to expose certain features (in the case that it is experimental or may change abruptly - stability of the API is important). - Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Friday, June 22, 2012 4:50:24 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hi all, > > If I may revive this thread: Interestingly, the video campaign statistics > *are* available in the web interface on an MCC level. Meaning that if you > look at the MCC which a specific account is linked to, you'll get a total > line for that account which includes the impressions, clicks and cost from > video campaigns. However, as soon as you drill into that account, the video > statistics disappear from the total line. > Unfortunately this is a bit confusing for some of our customers who like > to take a look at their account from time to time. They see a total line > with cost X in the totals for their account, but then notice that they got > billed Y > X by Google. > Are there any plans to remove this discrepancy? > > Thanks and best regards, > Dorian > > On Monday, April 30, 2012 4:15:58 PM UTC+2, Kevin Winter wrote: >> >> Hi Anže, >> Unfortunately, this is not currently supported via the API. We'll be >> sure to post on our blog if this ever becomes possible. >> >> - Kevin Winter >> AdWords API Team >> >> On Monday, April 23, 2012 9:08:21 AM UTC-4, AnzeOrehek wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> is there any way we can get video campaigns statistics with API? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Best Regards, Anže >>> >> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
