Google Ads Developer Blog: Announcing v12 of the Google Ads API

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Announcing v12 of the Google Ads API

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Google Ads APIclient libraries

Added support for new recommendations: RaiseTargetCpaBidTooLowRecommendation and ForecastingSetTargetRoasRecommendation.

Added primary_status and primary_status_reasons to Campaign to provide insight into why a campaign is not serving or not serving optimally.

Added support for linked portfolio bidding strategies and campaign budget. You can modify these links using bulk mutates.

conversion_tracking_id will always be greater than 0 for all customers. In the previous versions, this field could be 0 for customers who had never created any conversion actions.

Updated SmartCampaignSuggestService.SuggestKeywordThemes to generate more keyword theme suggestions for Smart campaigns, including free-form keyword themes.

Local Services campaigns now support individual location targeting, except for proximity targeting.

Removed CampaignExperimentService in favor of the previously added new experiments.

Removed support for creating new Smart Display campaigns. To achieve the same goals, we suggest using standard Display campaigns.

Removed support for creating a new Gmail ad. Use Discovery campaigns instead.

Removed GenerateProductMixIdeas from ReachPlanService.

(For allowlisted customers) Added support for adding, updating, and removing CampaignAsset and AdGroupAsset with the field_type: AD_IMAGE (Image assets).

Added support for mutating and retrieving location asset sets for test accounts only. The location assets for the asset sets are automatically generated and non-mutable.