Hi Ro, We strongly recommend using Reports when retrieving statistics, for all the reasons Dorian mentions.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:28:20 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hi Ro, > > generally, if you are only interested in statistics, using the Adhoc > reports is preferable as they don't incur any costs and don't require > paging if you need to download a large result set. I also feel that they > are somewhat faster than using the corresponding service, but that might be > subjective. I do not know what could be causing the timeouts you are > mentioning, in my experience the report service is very reliable. Maybe it > has to do with the issue described here: < > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adwords-api/M186skBI42Y/discussion> > > Hope this helps & cheers, > Dorian > > On Monday, July 9, 2012 3:44:45 PM UTC+2, Ro wrote: >> >> Anyone has input about the subject ? >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:43:13 PM UTC-4, Ro wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I saw in the c# documentation & examples that there are 2 ways to get >>> reports for campaign stats. One is via the AdHoc reports and the second is >>> via the campaignService. >>> I personally use the campaignService since I found the reports to >>> sometime fail with a timeout exception - but I'm afraid I'm missing >>> something out. >>> In general, I use the report for stats like clicks, impressions & avg >>> cpc. >>> Thanks, >>> Ro >>> >> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
