Hi, As far as I know, the date an AdWords account was created isn't stored anywhere. I'm also not sure how useful this would be, as there's no guarantee that is the date they started seeing impressions (i.e. if they hadn't set up billing or added a campaign ready to serve until much later). You could probably approximate the useful lifetime of an account by performing an AccountPerformanceReport and choose the Year and Month fields along with Impressions - then you'll get a list of Year, Month and impressions for every month you need to run your reports for.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:13:32 PM UTC-4, J wrote: > > I know this is an old thread, but I'm new to the AdWords API, and I need > to know the account creation date as well. > > In my case, I need to know the account creation date because I'm building > a reporting service that queries the CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. The > algorithm I'm using is to start with today's date, then query backwards > (reverse chronologically) one month at a time. The problem is I need a > reliable way to know when to stop querying. My current method is to stop > querying when I get 0 records for a query. I'm not sure if this is > reliable as I'm guessing it's possible that there could be no activity for > a month (perhaps all campaigns are paused)? > > Knowing the account creation date would give me a reliable way to stop > querying since this will ensure that I'm querying the entire period of the > account's existence. > > Any better suggestions? > > On Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:34:06 AM UTC-8, Eric Koleda wrote: >> >> Hi Jason, >> >> I'm not aware of any plans to extend the functionality of the >> CustomerSyncService. Out of curiosity, what is the use case for knowing the >> exact date and time that an account was created on? >> >> Best, >> - Eric >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords 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
