Hi Holger, Recently, AdWords introduced a new type of search + display campaign called *Search Network with Display Select* (SNDS). This new type of campaign replaces the old *Search & Display Networks* campaign type. One of the key differences between the two types is that you do not (and cannot) manage the *display*network bidding on an SNDS campaign -- AdWords manages that aspect of the campaign for you<https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3437721?hl=en> .
In line with the changes to AdWords, v201402 of the API introduced some new options and behavior for new campaigns (see our blog post<http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/03/changes-required-for-creating-new.html> on this topic), but the most relevant change to your question is that any search + display campaigns created via v201402 services will be SNDS campaigns, which means that you will get the READ_ONLY error you mentioned if you try to change display network bidding on the ad groups of those campaigns. I suspect that you are receiving this error on campaigns created through v201402 of the API or through the UI after the introduction of SNDS campaigns. Note that you can still modify the content bid for the old *Search & Display Networks* campaigns created in v201309 or earlier, so this option is not completely deprecated. I recommend inspecting the displaySelect<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/CampaignService.Campaign#displaySelect> attribute of your campaigns to determine if you should apply a content bid. Cheers, Josh, AdWords API Team On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:11:53 PM UTC-4, te...@exelution.com wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm currently trying to track down a problem with the adaptation of the > 2014 API and its change concerning the contentBid value. There was a Blog > Post in January that the contentBid will become READONLY for all "Display > only" campaigns, but I have trouble setting the content bid for any kind of > campaign ( of course, most sensibly for a search campaign that also runs on > the display network ) and I always receive a READONLY error when I try to > set it. > > I wanted to verify the setting is completely deprecated before removing it > from our sync script. Since I failed to find anything in the Adwords Blog > news beside that change on "Display only" I turn here. > > Thanks for your time! > > > Regards, > Holger Göbber, Exelution GmbH > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
