Presumably partly to identify when there is spend at which specific hours of the day per campaign per customer of ours (e.g., in case it should just be business hours not at 3:00 AM), my directive is to get the costs spent per each hour of the day.
I understand the segments.hour was designed to facilitate exactly that, and we have indeed seen variance from one hour to another and captured spend at hours we would not have expected. That all said, costs are adjusted by Google periodically due to things like determined invalid clicks. My question is whether those adjustments are reflected by changing the value of *metrics.cost_micros* for that hour in which the action such as invalid clicks happened, or is the adjustment instead rendered in a different manner and so a given *metrics.cost_micros* value will always be the same no matter how close it is pulled to the hour it pertains to. May you please let me know the answer to that question, or help direct me to who/where I may find that answer? Thank you for your time. On Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 2:45:28 PM UTC-4 Google Ads API Forum Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team. > > Please note that only the ‘metrics.clicks’ and ‘metrics.impressions’ > columns are expected to change every hour. The other columns, such as > 'metrics.cost_micros,’ are updated less frequently or not at all. > Therefore, fetching them on an hourly basis is highly inefficient. For more > information, you can refer to the Optimize the Frequency of Running > Reports > <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/productionize/manage-data-efficiently#optimize_the_frequency_of_running_reports> > > API documentation. > > I hope it helps. > This message is in relation to case > "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vFFSF:ref" (ADR-00264474) > > Thanks, > > [image: Google Logo] Google Ads API Team > > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 "Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/b1e8f822-ae30-40d5-8e20-ff10227de659n%40googlegroups.com.
