Re: Creating TrueView Template Ad

Hi,

Sorry, but I don't have any updates yet on this.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 10:35:41 AM UTC-4, Tom Flower wrote:

Hi Josh, 
Any word on if the MediaService is going to be updated to support video or if the  TrueView in-search video ad template could be updated to accept a youtube link as used if created through the UI. 

Thanks.

On Monday, 21 September 2015 22:09:56 UTC+10, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Ankit,

The template ads team has informed me that uploading YouTube videos through MediaService is not supported at this time. Therefore, the only option for the foreseeable future is to use the workaround I mentioned earlier.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 2:58:58 PM UTC-4, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi,

Sorry, but I don't have an update at this time. For now, I'd recommend using the workaround I mentioned in my previous post.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 12:32:02 PM UTC-4, Ankit Jain wrote:

Any updates on creating "TrueView In stream youtube ad" through API? 

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 11:10:54 AM UTC-4, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Richard,

Unfortunately, I don't have an ETA for when or if this will be available, but I've passed your feedback along.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 5:03:54 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote:

Hi Josh

Thanks for this. Are you able to tell me if this will become available in the future? Would be really handy to be able to do this without having to do one first via the web interface.

Richard

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 05:46:07 UTC+12, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Richard,

I was able to create one of these ads through the user interface on a Search Network with Display Select campaign, but not on a Display Network only campaign. Were you trying to do this on a Display Network only campaign, perhaps?

Regarding creating template ad ID 231 through the API, I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that, as you suggested, you need a mediaId in order to create the ad, and the only way to do that (even for a YouTube video) is to create a template ad through the user interface that points to your YouTube video. After that, you can fetch the mediaId via MediaService.

The good news is that once you've created at least one template ad that uses your YouTube video, you can use the generated mediaId to create additional template ads through the API that use that video. You'll need to include the following fields:

• displayUrl
• finalUrls
• templateId
• templateElements
• headline
• description1
• description2
• videoId
• type = VIDEO
• fieldMedia
• mediaId = the mediaId you retrieved via MediaService
• imageUrl
• channelName
• name

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 6:05:58 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote:

Hi Josh

I tried creating an ad based on the TrueView template within the Adwords web interface. I can select the YouTube video fill out the form but every time I try and save the ad the error pops up saying  "Please correct errors above"

These are the steps I use to produce this problem.

Login to Adwords using my test MCC account

Select one of my client account which I created

Create a Campaign of type "Search Network with Display Select" with "All Features" checked

Enter a daily budget (all other settings are default)

Create Campaign

Create an Ad Group with a default bid (all other settings are default)

On the Ad tab, click the  + Ad dropdown, select Ad Gallery

Select Video Ads

Select TrueView in-display video ad

Fill out the Ad form

Add Headline, Description

Select a YouTube video (Looks like you can select any YouTube video) At no point has it asked me to link my YouTube account.

I select a YouTube video that I know about

Select a thumbnail (it selects the first by default)

Give it a name

Hit Save

Get error message "Please fix above errors"

There are no errors to fix

Screens

I have tried this with a proper Adwords account also, same issue. So I can't query for a created ad via the API because it seems I can't even create one. This is all done via the standard Adwords interface (Online Campaigns not Video Campaigns)

Please advise, thanks

Richard

On Tuesday, 21 July 2015 04:57:01 UTC+12, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Richard,

Might I suggest creating the ad through the AdWords user interface, then retrieving it via the API? The advantage to this approach is that we'll see precisely which fields of the template need to be populated, as well as how they are populated.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 4:59:15 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote:

Hi Josh

Thanks for the update. I have tried creating an ad based on the TrueView template using this code, so only using the video_id

template_ad = {

  name: 'Ad Name',

  display_url: 'youtube.com/channelname',

  final_urls: [

    'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoid'

  ],

  xsi_type: 'TemplateAd',

  template_id: "231",

  template_elements: [

    {

      unique_name: "adData",

      fields: [

        {

          name: 'videoId',

          type: 'VIDEO',

          field_text: params[:video_id]

        },

        {

          name: 'imageUrl',

          type: 'URL',

          field_text: 'http://i.ytimg.com/vi/videoid/default.jpg'

        },

        {

          name: 'channelName',

          type: 'TEXT',

          field_text: 'channelName'

        },

        {

          name: 'headline',

          type: 'TEXT',

          field_text: 'Some Headline Text'

        }

      ]

    }

  ]

}

operation = {

  operator: 'ADD',

  operand: {

    ad_group_id: ad_group_id,

    ad: template_ad

  }

}

service = $api.service(:AdGroupAdService, $version)

ad = service.mutate([operation])

I get back the error

[AdError.EMPTY_FIELD @ operations[0].operand.ad.templateElements[0].fields[0].fieldMedia; trigger:'<null>'] 

So I guess the field_media is required, but obviously using the field media means I need to use the MediaService to query for the mediaId to include in the field_media. If I leave off the displayUrl, finalUrls I also get required field errors, the same if I leave off the imageUrl, headline and channelName, these are all required.

It seems to me to do with this

        {

          name: 'videoId',

          type: 'VIDEO',

          field_text: params[:video_id]

        },

The 'type' VIDEO requires the media_field to be included but this seems to treat it as an in-stream video ad, which requires a 'video' object parameter instead of the TrueView template ad which requires only the YouTube videoId. I am setting the template id to 231 which is the ID for the TrueView template.

I don't understand why this requires a MediaService object if we are already giving it the YouTube videoId.

Thanks

Richard

On Saturday, 18 July 2015 03:26:19 UTC+12, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Richard,

I spoke with our resident MediaService expert, and here are the key points:

1. The comment on MediaService.upload regarding images is correct. You can only upload images through the API. However, if you uploaded Audio or Video media objects through the user interface, you'll be able to retrieve them via MediaService.get and MediaService.query.
2. When creating a TrueView template ad, you should specify the YouTube video ID for the videoId field (without the URL -- just the ID).
3. We're not sure if linking your YouTube and AdWords accounts is required for the TrueView template. I'd recommend just giving it a try without linking to see if you encounter any issues.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 7:13:36 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote:

Hi Josh, are you saying that video uploading is supported? I don't really want to upload I just want to link a YouTube video.

I haven't tried yet because not sure how to do it, with an image you can base64 encode and use the data property of the media object but according to the videos docs there is no data property. How do I tell the MediaService which video to upload or which YouTube video to use.

This is what I currently have but doesn't work and wouldn't really expect it to but not sure what else to try.

service = $api.service(:MediaService, $version)

    

video = {

    type: 'VIDEO',

    you_tube_video_id_string: params[:video_id],

    streaming_url: "http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=#{params[:video_id]}"

}

service.upload([video])

This creates an UnexpectedParametersError: [:you_tube_video_id_string, :streaming_url])

I am looking to create just a regular Adwords campaign with the ad based on the TrueView template (template id 231). Based on the template docs all I need to do is give it a YouTube videoId and an optional videoThumbnail and destinationPage

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/templateads#pyv_ad_on_search

but this doesn't work, if I leave out the field_media, it starts complaining about required field. So I add in field_media with appropriate properties but it requires a media_id which I can only get from the MediaService, either by uploading (which doesn't work for videos) or creating an ad through the web interface, selecting a YouTube video from the ad gallery TrueView template, in fact you don't have to create the ad, all you have to do is select the YouTube video when starting to create your ad, which looks like it essentially associates the YouTube video to the Adwords account, this video is then part of the MediaService .get collection via the API.

Thanks

Richard

On Friday, 17 July 2015 08:36:45 UTC+12, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote:

Hi Richard,

It may be that the documentation on MediaService is outdated. Have you tried uploading your video via that service and it failed?

Also, are you looking to set up these ads for an AdWords for Video campaign or a regular AdWords campaign? I ask because the AdWords API does not currently support managing AdWords for Video campaigns.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 6:25:51 PM UTC-4, Richard Biffin wrote:

Ok thanks for this. I was hoping to just link a YouTube video as the media, not have to upload the video again. I see that the MediaService has an upload function which currently only supports images, is there any plan to allow uploading of videos in the near future?

Thanks

Richard

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 04:38:28 UTC+12, Anthony Madrigal wrote:

Hi Richard,

When creating video template ads, you will need to use a video that is uploaded through the AdWords UI (since it is not supported through API). You are required to do so since the media ID is used to create the video ad and is used to retrieve video ads through the MediaService.

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords API Team

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