Hi people. I've been fielding questions from users over discrepancies between UI and API reports. I've found this article: http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/impression-share-reporting-changes-are.html that discusses changes that came into effect on October 1. In particular:
1) *Distinct search and display columns*. We’re adding new columns to cleanly separate search and display impression share. 2) *“Hour of day” segmentation*. Based on your feedback, we’re enabling “Hour of day” segmentation so you can evaluate how your ad coverage varies by the hour. I see these changes have *not* made it into the API report documentation, nor the API reports themselves, and hence are a source of discrepancy ( and hence source of issues for us ). Can someone please give an estimate on when this is expected to be fixed? On a similar topic, the article also states that the old impression share columns will become unavailable in February 2013. It's not clear if this affects API reports or not. Will there then be a situation where we can't even say to users "stop using the new impression share metrics and use the old ones that are compatible with API reports?" If not, that implies there will be a breaking change to API reports in February 2013, which I'm currently unaware of. Are there plans to deprecate v201209 in February 2013? Stability of reports is essential to tool providers, as discrepancies like this cause users to doubt solutions we build around them. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
