Today we're announcing the release of AdWords API v201502. Here are the highlights:
- Ad extension services. We heard your feedback about Feed Services being overly complex for many cases. To help simplify ad extension management, we've added new ExtensionSetting services. Existing Feed Services are still supported so you can continue using them. Should you decide to migrate to the new services, we've prepared a migration guide.
- Account labels. We've expanded support for labels to MCC manager accounts. Now you can tag your accounts with text labels programmatically.
- In-place URL upgrade for ads. The AdGroupAdService now supports
upgradeUrl method which simplifies the Upgraded URLs migration.
- Updates to reporting. Two new reports have been added: UserAdDistance performance and Label. Reporting now supports
skipColumnHeader HTTP header which removes column headers from the produced report. We've also added several new columns across reports, see the release notes for the full list.
- Shared sets. These are now available to all AdWords API users. Check out this feature if you often need to attach large sets of negative keywords or placements to many campaigns.
- Support for application deep links. You can now create ads linking to specific activities in your application using AppUrlList.
- Additional controls on Local Inventory Ads. You can now enable local inventory as well as set product channel / channel exclusivity.
- Cross-account as well as system-defined conversion trackers are now easy to identify. Look at the
conversionTypeOwnerCustomerId in ConversionTracker. Accounts using cross-account conversion tracking can be identified using the effectiveConversionTrackingId.
- Account-level remarketing tags can now be retrieved using CustomerService RemarketingSettings.
- The new TargetOutrankShare bidding strategy is now supported.
If you're still using v201406 of the AdWords API, please note that it's
being sunset on April 6th, 2015. We encourage you to skip v201409 and migrate straight to v201502. If you're using v201409, be aware it's now marked deprecated and will be sunset on
July 14th, 2015.
- Danial Klimkin, on behalf of AdWords API Team.
