FWIW, I also reached out to the group back in 2017 about this sort of placements, and was told that
"[...] these IDs may continue to appear in placement reports for a time > while we continue to work on cleaning up the old data. However, the invalid > IDs do not actually affect your targeting, and they should always come back > with no stats because of this." If I understand OP correctly, not only do they still appear in the placement reports, they also accumulate stats now. I'd also like to understand how we can exclude these (AdMob?) placements. Best, Dorian On Friday, 18 January 2019 16:02:00 UTC+1, PPC Developer wrote: > > Hi Luis, > > I'm well aware of the format for both iOS and Android. However, these > mobile application IDs are returned by AdWords via a call to get Automatic > Placement Performance report.. So basically, adwords is telling me that > these are the mobile apps that are giving us a lot of clicks. It's not me > trying to construct my own app ID. These are coming back from the API call > to adwords. And when I try to add these to exclusion lists via > NegativeCampaignCriteria, the API returns an error complaining about the > app ID format. So, it's basically AdWords returning these. > > I saw another post related to this, > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/adwords-api/INVALID_MOBILE_APP%7Csort:date/adwords-api/WUvX2wjhz6U/Xn_x7wdMBgAJ > > But, what's the solution? > > On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8:22:08 AM UTC, googleadsapi-forumadvisor > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The format of the app ID that you used was invalid which triggers >> the CriterionError.INVALID_MOBILE_APP error. A well formed app ID for >> AdWords API would be "1-476943146" for iOS and "2-com.labpixies.colordrips" >> for Android. You may check this guide >> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201809/AdGroupCriterionService.MobileApplication#appid> >> for >> details. 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In doing so, I get >> exceptions: >> >> [CriterionError.INVALID_MOBILE_APP @ >> operations[103].operand.criterion.appId; >> trigger:'10002-CA-APP-PUB-8367418828198308', >> CriterionError.INVALID_MOBILE_APP @ >> operations[309].operand.criterion.appId; >> trigger:'10002-CA-APP-PUB-8392731756470098'] >> >> And I have a lot of these, where I cannot neither add or delete them: >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-8367418828198308 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-8392731756470098 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-4028238683451937 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-8162149483502798 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-5694554969453415 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-1413939963884036 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-5075118958809920 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-2397825577270378 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-4640908852121081 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-3169207933671961 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-4547683005564946 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-9549248647599949 >> mobileapp::10002-ca-app-pub-3605354403339561 >> >> >> How do I add or delete these mobile apps as adgroupscriterion? >> >> -- >> -- >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> Also find us on our blog: >> https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 and Google Ads 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/2b1b6dad-3a08-4efb-b958-998cb94d26a7%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/2b1b6dad-3a08-4efb-b958-998cb94d26a7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum" group. 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