Also to add more supporting information all we are doing for target spend (at the campaign level) is this:
val biddingStrategyConf = BiddingStrategyConfiguration() biddingStrategyConf.biddingStrategyType = BiddingStrategyType.TARGET_SPEND campaign.biddingStrategyConfiguration = biddingStrategyConf We are not setting "spendTarget" as we figured it would just use the campaign budget. Another question is, is it going to use the campaign's daily budget or the total budget calculated by (campaign daily budget * campaign days) Would setting a spendTarget help Adwords with auto bidding in any way? On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 10:34:56 AM UTC-4, Jose Balius wrote: > > Hello, > > We are currently using the Adwords API to launch campaigns for our > customers using the target spend bidding strategy to maximize clicks for a > given budget. All of our campaigns have a start date and end date. We are > finding out that on random campaigns that we run, we never get > impressions/stats because adwords seems to be stuck in the "learning" phase > trying to figure out whats the correct cpc to use. We have had campaigns > never gain any traction for 5-6 days, which have then expired (due to the > end date) so they essentially never worked, it is frustrating. > > When we do the exact same campaign manually (via UI) with maximize clicks, > the campaigns seem to learn a lot faster and actually do work. > > Is there anything you guys recommend to make our campaigns work faster? We > have been in touch with some of the adwords support staff and they went as > far as recommending us to start the campaigns with a manual cpc and after x > amount of time, switch them to target spend so the campaigns would collect > enough data. > > Adding this functionality adds more complexity to our system as you can > imagine, so I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this problem and > how they solved it. > > Thanks! > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/61a8d911-4bc9-4576-8b0c-e7802d50bdd4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
