Thanks for the info. From what I understand, video ads are all gadgetTemplates from now on. Actually I confirmed with a local Google employee that, you can't add video ads without the use of the Display ad builder. Currently it is the only way.
I checked an old campaign (generated a report) from 2008, and looks like the old video ads are still of the type "video". Current campaigns with old video ads are also OK. This is good news. So, apparently the only problem is the videoPlaybacks column always being 0. I ran a little query for "playbacks=0 and otherPlaybackColumns>0" on my system, and noticed that it started towards the end of last year, on a bunch of ads with the type "video". This date could be wrong because there are only a few matches before two weeks ago, on July 21st, some "gadgetTemplate" ads. These dates are the last updated dates on my side, and reflects to the last updated dates of daily report rows. We don't always do video ads, so the bug should have emerged before July 21st. Hope this helps. All the best, Kemal On Aug 4, 10:34 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > Hello Kemal, > > That job id was gone by the time I looked, but I think I found an > equivalent report in your MCC account that illustrates the behavior. > > I took a look at the ads in one of the ad groups in question, and I > think the characterization of the creativeType is correct--they're > click-to-play video ads created via the Display ad builder, which > results in our internal creativeType of gadgetTemplate. If you take a > look at the ads in the AdWords web interface you'll see that they're > labeled as "display ads" rather than video ads. This terminology is > obviously confusing, and end-users shouldn't be expected to understand > the distinction, but I just wanted to point out why you're seeing what > you are. > > I personally don't have any info about whether ads that were > previously considered video ads were in some way converted into > display ads in our backend. I'll look into it a bit more. Can you > confirm that these exact same ads used to come back in reports with a > creativeType of "video" and that nothing was done in the advertiser's > account to change them? On which date did this first start happening? > > I'll also look into the ramifications of the creativeType change on > video playback reporting, as I do see examples in your report of > videoPlaybacks being 0 but the individual playback percentages being > non-zero. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Aug 4, 6:09 am, Kemal <dis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > Seems like the videoPlaybacks column is back, but it is always "0", > > even though the videoPlaybacksThrough25Percent/50Percent/75Percent/ > > 100Percent columns are greater than 0. creativeType is still > > "gadgetTemplate" by the way, shouldn't it be "video"? > > > One of the job ids is 1046482951. Our reports are auto-generated on > > the MCC level, more than a few times a day. So if the report expires > > (and is not accessible) before you have a chance to look at it, just > > let me know and I'll get back to you with a fresh jobId. > > > Thanks! > > > On Aug 4, 12:35 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hello Kemal, > > > > I'm sorry that you're running into this issue. Could you try re- > > > running your report and pass along the report job id, assuming that > > > the report is still exhibiting that behavior? > > > > Cheers, > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > On Jul 29, 6:03 am, Kemal <dis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Still waiting for an answer on this. > > > > > On Jul 27, 6:51 pm, Kemal <dis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > In the reports api, the videos in the creative reports are now the > > > > > creativeType "gadgetTemplate" instead of "video". Confirmed this on > > > > > two separate accounts. > > > > > > The videoPlaybacks field is always 0, although the fields > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough25Percent, videoPlaybacksThrough50Percent, > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough75Percent and videoPlaybacksThrough100Percent are > > > > > greater than 0. > > > > > > Here's a snippet I got from the Reports API's Creative Report (trimmed > > > > > some of the fields) > > > > > <row date="2009-07-27" keywordid="3000000" creativeid="3518734911" > > > > > creativeType="gadgetTemplate" creativeStatus="Enabled" > > > > > agStatus="Enabled" hostingKey="" campStatus="Active" > > > > > videoPlaybacks="0" avgPercentPlayed="0.0" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough25Percent="4153" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough50Percent="3037" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough75Percent="2502" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough100Percent="2233"></row> > > > > > > When I generate an Ad Performance report thru the Adwords Interface, I > > > > > get this: > > > > > <row date="2009-07-27" creativeid="3518734911" > > > > > creativeType="gadgetTemplate" creativeStatus="Enabled" > > > > > agStatus="Enabled" campStatus="Active" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough25Percent="4578" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough50Percent="3348" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough75Percent="2742" > > > > > videoPlaybacksThrough100Percent="2439" templateMouseovers="18566" > > > > > templateInteractions="7298"></row> > > > > > > videoPlaybacks field is gone, instead there are templateInteractions > > > > > and templateMouseovers fields. > > > > > > Seems like something is broken and/or out of sync in the API. 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