Announcing v23.1 of the Google Ads API

Today, we’re announcing the v23.1 release of the Google Ads API. To use the new v23.1 features, you must upgrade your client libraries and client code. All the updated client libraries and code examples have been published.

We are also releasing minor versions v20.2, v21.1 and v22.1 of the Google Ads API to add additional support for the EU Political Ads Regulation.

Here are some of the key features in this release:

• Added additional fields to support the EU Political Ads Regulation in the Google Ads API. The Campaign.missing_eu_political_advertising_declaration field supports querying and filtering campaigns that are missing declarations about whether they contain political advertising targeted towards the EU. The Customer.contains_eu_political_advertising field retrieves the account level declaration status of whether they contain political advertising targeted towards the EU.
• Added the YouTubeVideoUploadService to support uploading and managing videos on YouTube, and the YouTubeVideoUpload resource to support fetching upload status and metadata.
• Added support for text guidelines to the Campaign resource, which can be used with Performance Max and Search campaigns to programmatically control AI-generated text assets.
• Added new metrics that report how many users saw your ad at least two, three, four, five or ten times: unique_users_two_plus, unique_users_three_plus, unique_users_four_plus, unique_users_five_plus, and unique_users_ten_plus.
• Added ConversionActionCategory.YOUTUBE_FOLLOW_ON_VIEWS to support tracking users who watch an ad and later watch a video from the same channel.

Where can I learn more?

The following resources can help you get started:

• Release Notes
• Upgrade from a previous version
• Guides
• Reference
• Diff between v23 and v23.1
• Diff between v23 and v22

Come join us for a live walkthrough of this release in our "Google Ads API Release Highlights" event on Discord or on our Ads Developers YouTube Live tomorrow (February 26th at 10a ET). This will also be recorded and posted on YouTube for those who can’t make the live events. If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, reach out to us in the #ads-api channel on Discord.

For technical support issues, reach out to https://support.google.com/google-ads/gethelp

 - Anash P. Oommen, on behalf of the Google Ads API Team