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Last October, we announced the sunset of accelerated budget delivery for use with Search campaigns, Shopping campaigns, and shared budgets. These campaigns have since been made unavailable for use with accelerated budget delivery.

Later this year, accelerated budget delivery will also be sunset for all other remaining campaign types for both shared and non-shared budgets. This includes Display, App, video campaigns, and others, and this sunset will affect budgets in all versions of the AdWords API, Google Ads API, and Google Ads scripts.

Starting at the end of April, 2020, scripts and both APIs will prevent campaigns from using new and existing budgets with the ACCELERATED delivery method.

• Creating a new budget with its delivery method field set to ACCELERATED will no longer be allowed.
• Changing an existing budget from STANDARD to ACCELERATED delivery method will no longer be allowed.
• Setting a campaign to use a pre-existing budget with an ACCELERATED delivery method will no longer be allowed.

Any of the above operations will result in errors from the APIs and scripts, according to the following:
AdWords API

Service	Field Value	Error
BudgetService	deliveryMethod: ACCELERATED	OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED
CampaignService	budget* [*]only if set to accelerated delivery	OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED

Google Ads API

Service	Field Value	Error
CampaignBudgetService	delivery_method: ACCELERATED	OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED
CampaignService	campaign_budget* [*] only if set to accelerated delivery	OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED

Google Ads scripts

Method	Error
AdsApp.​Budget.setDeliveryMethod(“ACCELERATED”)	“Action not permitted”

Making changes to existing ACCELERATED budgets (e.g., updating amount or status fields in the API, or using their corresponding AdsApp.​Budget methods in scripts) will still be allowed until May 2020, after which any modification to these budgets will also result in analogous errors.

Future versions of the Google Ads API and Google Ads scripts may remove support for the accelerated budget delivery option altogether.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on the AdWords API / Google Ads API forum or the Google Ads scripts forum if you have any questions about this change.
Adam Ohren, Google Ads API Team

 - Anash P. Oommen, Google Ads API Team Read More

What’s changing?

We are changing how stats for Search campaigns with Display Expansion (previously known as Search campaigns with Display Select) are reported by the AdWords API, the Google Ads API, and Google Ads scripts.

Starting the week of Feb 17, 2020, we will no longer return display keyword stats for Search campaigns with Display Expansion in

• Display Keyword Performance Report in the AdWords API and Google Ads scripts
• Display_keyword_view in the Google Ads API.

Why is this changing?

Search campaigns with Display Expansion historically used keywords to perform Display Expansion. As we strive to improve targeting for Display Expansion, it is no longer possible to meaningfully and consistently attribute stats to keywords. As a result, this view has been removed from the Google Ads UI. The changes in this announcement aim to create parity between APIs and UI.


What should I do?

Before the sunset date, we recommend switching to alternate reports for fetching stats for Search campaigns with Display Expansion.

• Automatic Placement Performance reports and Display Topics Performance report can be used in the AdWords API and Google Ads scripts to get granular performance data about these campaigns in the Display Network. If you use the Google Ads API, you can use group_placement_view and topic_view instead.
• Reports such as Campaign Performance report or Ad Group Performance report can be used in the AdWords API and Google Ads scripts to fetch aggregate performance stats for these campaigns. You need to filter by AdNetworkType2 = CONTENT for Display Network stats. If you use the Google Ads API, you can use the campaign or ad_group view instead.

If you have any questions or need help, please contact us via the Google Ads scripts forum or the AdWords API and Google Ads API forum.

 - Anash P. Oommen, Google Ads API Team

 - Donovan McMurray, Ad Manager API Team Read More

On Friday, February 28, 2020, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201902 of the Ad Manager API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re still using this version, now is the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of new functionality like CmsMetadata reporting, the TargetingPresetService, and deal IDs on programmatic LineItems.

When you’re ready to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, such as the removal of the deprecated field ImageCreative.lockedOrientation.

Then, grab the latest version of your client library and update your code. As always, don't hesitate to reach out to us on the developer forum with any questions.

 - Donovan McMurray, Ad Manager API Team