Hi Dorian,
I apologize - I was mistaken with regards to the Account Performance
report. I had assumed that Video campaigns would be filtered similarly to
DSA in that the higher level reports include the numbers. I didn't have a
video campaign to test with. Based on your results, I would have to say
there is no way to query video campaign stats at this time via the API.
This isn't that surprising to me, given that the UI rigidly separates
these campaigns and the API derives much of its functionality from the API.
We'll be sure to announce on the blog if we were to expose such
functionality.
- Kevin Winter
AdWords API Team
On Friday, June 29, 2012 7:45:05 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> thanks for your continued support! The thing is, in my experience even the
> account performance reports do *not* include statistics from video
> campaigns. For example, the following report definition (in Python) for a
> client of ours:
>
> {'reportName': 'Ad Hoc Report',
> 'selector': {
> 'fields': ['Cost'],
> 'dateRange': {'max': '20120531', 'min': '20120501'}
> },
> 'reportType': 'ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT',
> 'dateRangeType': 'CUSTOM_DATE',
> 'downloadFormat': 'XML'
> }
>
> returns:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes'?>
> <report>
> <report-name name='Ad Hoc Report' />
> <date-range date='May 1, 2012-May 31, 2012' />
> <table>
> <columns>
> <column name='cost' display='Cost' />
> </columns>
> <row cost='6,985.21' />
> </table>
> </report>
>
> but the real cost for that timeframe (as visible in our MCC) is 7,525.80.
> The difference of 540.59 corresponds exactly to the cost of the single
> video campaign in the given account.
>
> So it appears that—at least for the account in question—we have no way to
> gather the actual total cost using the API...
> I would appreciate any pointers you could give me regarding this issue,
> and I'll gladly provide any additional details you might need.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Dorian
>
>
> On Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:12:14 PM UTC+2, Kevin Winter wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dorian,
>> Yes, this is currently correct if you are looking for anything more
>> fine-grained than an Account level performance report.
>>
>> - Kevin Winter
>> AdWords API Team
>>
>> On Monday, June 25, 2012 5:16:23 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote:
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your comprehensive answer, Kevin! Just so that I
>>> understand this completely: There is currently no functionality in the API
>>> to get total performance statistics for a single account where values from
>>> video campaigns are included?
>>>
>>> Thanks again and best regards,
>>> Dorian
>>>
>>> On Friday, June 22, 2012 5:57:10 PM UTC+2, Kevin Winter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dorian,
>>>> This is a side-effect of how aggregation works in AdWords. In the
>>>> MCC view, you are looking at a list of all accounts. At this level, it's
>>>> not known whether these statistics include video campaigns or regular
>>>> campaigns (since we're looking at the account as a whole). The same thing
>>>> applies for an AdGroupPerformance report - you may be looking at
>>>> clicks/impressions/etc that are associated with DynamicSearchAds (which
>>>> are
>>>> not currently exposed via the API), but because you're looking at a higher
>>>> level of aggregation their statistics are included. It is only when one
>>>> looks at statistics at the level of an entity (where said entity is not
>>>> normally available) that it becomes possible to filter these statistics.
>>>>
>>>> I know this is a pain point for many developers. We're always working
>>>> with the engineering teams to expose more objects in the API, but it's not
>>>> always feasible or desirable to expose certain features (in the case that
>>>> it is experimental or may change abruptly - stability of the API is
>>>> important).
>>>>
>>>> - Kevin Winter
>>>> AdWords API Team
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, June 22, 2012 4:50:24 AM UTC-4, Dorian Kind wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> If I may revive this thread: Interestingly, the video campaign
>>>>> statistics *are* available in the web interface on an MCC level. Meaning
>>>>> that if you look at the MCC which a specific account is linked to, you'll
>>>>> get a total line for that account which includes the impressions, clicks
>>>>> and cost from video campaigns. However, as soon as you drill into that
>>>>> account, the video statistics disappear from the total line.
>>>>> Unfortunately this is a bit confusing for some of our customers who
>>>>> like to take a look at their account from time to time. They see a total
>>>>> line with cost X in the totals for their account, but then notice that
>>>>> they
>>>>> got billed Y > X by Google.
>>>>> Are there any plans to remove this discrepancy?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>>> Dorian
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, April 30, 2012 4:15:58 PM UTC+2, Kevin Winter wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Anže,
>>>>>> Unfortunately, this is not currently supported via the API. We'll
>>>>>> be sure to post on our blog if this ever becomes possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Kevin Winter
>>>>>> AdWords API Team
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, April 23, 2012 9:08:21 AM UTC-4, AnzeOrehek wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> is there any way we can get video campaigns statistics with API?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best Regards, Anže
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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