Re: Shapefiles/geoJSON for location targets

2018-09-03 Thread drmatsavage
Hi Vincent Many thanks for the reply, What I am looking for is the base data which you use to define a region. For example, if I were to target a specific city eg. Birmingham, in the Ads interface you will show me a blue outline of where you define Birmingham to be. What I am looking for is th

Shapefiles/geoJSON for location targets

2018-09-01 Thread drmatsavage
Are the data Google uses for location targeting of people available through any site or service. Ie if I target a specific location is there a way to download the geographical points that enclose that area? When I make a new ad in the interface and choose a location target an area is shown, b

Re: Strange locationIDs in CAMPAIGN_LOCATION_TARGET_REPORT

2018-08-17 Thread drmatsavage
Okay, I have come up with a python script to interact with the LocationCriterionService, which has helped me learn more about the API, but am still having the issue with the locations returned from the API not being vaild If this helps anyone, the code I am using is: def find_names(client): l

Strange locationIDs in CAMPAIGN_LOCATION_TARGET_REPORT

2018-08-17 Thread drmatsavage
Hi, I am usng the `CAMPAIGN_LOCATION_TARGET_REPORT` to do some regional analysis of a number of Ads campaigns, however I am having trouble with this report returning a lot of locationIDs which are not in the locations lookup table reported here: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/a

'MetroCriteriaId' empty in 'GEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT'

2018-06-05 Thread drmatsavage
Hi I am querying the AdWords reporting API for an account serving Ads in the UK, using the GEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT In the Google Analytics API, reporting is possible the the Metro level, which for the UK is TV Regions, however when I want to report at this level in the AdWords API, the metro re