In
June 2019, we will shut off the ability to add new Target Search Page Location and Target Outranking Share bidding strategies. This will affect both the AdWords API and the Google Ads API. Later this year, existing campaigns on these strategies will automatically be migrated to the new
Target Impression Share bidding strategy, which offers more flexible and granular controls to optimize for your desired impression share and search page location.
Read on to see how this will affect your API usage.
Google Ads API Users
Please start using the
TARGET_IMPRESSION_SHARE BiddingStrategyType rather than
TARGET_OUTRANK_SHARE or PAGE_ONE_PROMOTED.
If you attempt to create a
TARGET_OUTRANK_SHARE or PAGE_ONE_PROMOTED after they are removed, you will get an error.
AdWords API Users
If you attempt to use the AdWords API to add a
TARGET_OUTRANK_SHARE or
PAGE_ONE_PROMOTED bidding strategy after they are removed, you will get an error.
All existing campaigns using the old bidding strategies will be automatically migrated to use Target Impression Share for both APIs. The AdWords API does not support the Target Impression Share bidding strategy, so we recommend migrating to the
Google Ads API if you need this functionality.
If you have any questions about this change or any other API feature, please contact us via the
forum.
- Mike Cloonan, Google Ads API Team
