Announcing v13 of the Google Ads API

Today, we’re announcing the v13 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v13 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code. The updated client libraries and code examples will be published next week.


Here are the highlights:

• Added support for Performance Max for travel goals and TravelAssetSuggestionService to suggest required assets (such as headlines, descriptions, long descriptions) that can be used to create asset groups in the Performance Max for travel goal campaigns. TravelAssetSuggestionService is available to a closed allowlist for now.
• Added fields to Customer to track the migration status of location and image assets.
• You can get more information about the aggregated status of your Smart campaigns using SmartCampaignSettingService.GetSmartCampaignStatus.
• Added BatchJobMetadata.execution_limit_seconds to set the limit of execution in seconds. Batch jobs will be canceled if their execution time is longer than specified in this field.
• Removed CombinedRuleUserListInfo and ExpressionRuleUserListInfo and their references in RuleBasedUserListInfo. Use FlexibleUserListInfo instead.
• ConversionUploadError.CUSTOMER_NOT_ACCEPTED_CUSTOMER_DATA_TERMS will be thrown if you try to upload ClickConversion with user_identifiers set, but have not accepted the customer data terms.
• You can no longer upload the same combination of gbraid, conversion_action, and conversion_date_time on different days. Trying to do so will cause a ConversionUploadError.CLICK_CONVERSION_ALREADY_EXISTS error.
• You can get more information about policy summaries for each asset field type using Asset.field_type_policy_summaries.
• Added support for Things to do ads campaigns for allowlisted customers only.
• Added support for adding and removing services an advertiser serves to a Local Services Campaign using local_service_id.
• Added ProductLinkService for adding and removing a link between a Google Ads account and an account of another product.
• Feed-based recommendations of calls, callouts, and sitelinks are replaced with asset-based recommendations.
• Removed ResponsiveSearchAdAssetRecommendation.current_ad.
• Removed ProductBiddingCategoryInfo.country_code.
• Removed PreferredContentInfo and its reference from AdGroupBidModifier.
• Added TargetCpm.target_frequency_goal to support providing additional details about the goal of the Target CPM bidding strategy.

Where can I learn more?
The following resources can help you get started:

• Release Notes
• Guides
• Reference
• Diff between v12 and v13

If you have any questions or need additional help, contact us via the forum.
Thanet Knack Praneenararat, on behalf of the Google Ads API Team