Hello, We are currently using the Adwords API to launch campaigns for our customers using the target spend bidding strategy to maximize clicks for a given budget. All of our campaigns have a start date and end date. We are finding out that on random campaigns that we run, we never get impressions/stats because adwords seems to be stuck in the "learning" phase trying to figure out whats the correct cpc to use. We have had campaigns never gain any traction for 5-6 days, which have then expired (due to the end date) so they essentially never worked, it is frustrating.
When we do the exact same campaign manually (via UI) with maximize clicks, the campaigns seem to learn a lot faster and actually do work. Is there anything you guys recommend to make our campaigns work faster? We have been in touch with some of the adwords support staff and they went as far as recommending us to start the campaigns with a manual cpc and after x amount of time, switch them to target spend so the campaigns would collect enough data. Adding this functionality adds more complexity to our system as you can imagine, so I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this problem and how they solved it. Thanks! -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/839f2d43-4dfc-470c-aadf-9d91a2ffd7d8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
