Thanks @Sreelakshmi. I have a follow-up question for you. In regards to the Campaign Performance Report, can you confirm that the clicks, interactions, and cost shown is the total number of clicks that is deducted by invalid activity or is it the total? (See example below)
For example, if I go to my Campaign Performance and the columns and numbers as follows: Total Cost = $1,000 Total Clicks = 300 Total Interactions = 300 Invalid clicks = 100 Invalid interactions = 100 Does the Total Cost, Interactions, and Clicks INCLUDE invalid activity? So the 300 total clicks is inclusive of the 100 invalid clicks? Does the total cost of $1,000 deducting the cost for invalid spend? Let me know! Thanks! On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 3:35:10 PM UTC-5, Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi, > > Congratulations on your first post! > > The cost > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/campaign-performance-report#cost> > field > in Campaign Performance Report will get modified to accommodate the invalid > clicks if it has any. Hence the cost that you get on your report should be > the correct value (provided that you are not running the report too soon or > looking for the data corresponding to current day or previous day). Please > check the guide on data freshness > <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2544985?hl=en> for better > clarity on correctness of the report stats. If you run the report at each > click level and include both valid and invalid clicks, you should be able > to validate the stats. The invalid clicks > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/campaign-performance-report#invalidclicks> > in > the Campaign Performance Report should give you the number which weren't > charged as they were considered illegitimate. > > For getting the spend via the API, we do not have a service which gives > the value directly. However, you will be able to calculate the spend if you > are able to save the spendingLimit > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/selectorfields#v201702-BudgetOrderService> > regularly > which can be retrieved using the BudgetOrderService > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201702/BudgetOrderService> > locally > and derive the spend by applying the calculation as below: > spent = (oldSpendingLimit - newSpendingLimit) + totalAdjustments > > Let me know if you have any additional questions. > > Thanks, > Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/cdd8a6e0-cd04-49dd-a4a8-1c98b00481e6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
