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On Friday, May 31, 2019, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201805 of the Ad Manager API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re using any of Google’s client libraries, you should allow extra time to migrate off of v201805, since it was the last version before the DFP API became the Google Ad Manager API. For details on what’s changed, each client library has a migration guide: Java, Python, .NET, PHP, and Ruby.

When you’re ready to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes (such as the change to the capitalization of DateTime.timeZoneId in v201811). 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.

To be notified of future sunsets, join the Ad Manager API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings. If you are an administrator on your network, you can also receive notifications when an application is making requests to your network using a deprecated version, as explained in this post.
 - , Ad Manager API Team
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We're happy to announce that v201902 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today. The two main areas that are getting new API functionality are forecasting and video.

In v201902, you can set LineItems to be paced based on their projected traffic instead of their historical traffic by setting DeliveryForecastSource to FORECASTING. This API version also adds the AdjustmentService to manage traffic forecast adjustments. For example, if you’re expecting an increase in traffic for an upcoming holiday, you can manually adjust your forecasts to take that increase into consideration.

There are also several updates to video features in this version of the API. You can now target LineItems by CmsMetadataValues (content targeting) and custom AdSpots (position targeting).

For a full list of API changes in v201902, see the release notes.

For questions about this or any other API changes, reach out to us on the Ad Manager API forum.
 - , Ad Manager API Team
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For some products, the Google Ads Developer team has used Google groups as a way to allow API users to subscribe and get new relevant blog posts delivered to their email address. Starting now, the way you can get email updates about blog posts is changing. We will no longer send an email to the Google group for each new blog post. We will continue to use the Google groups for other important updates, however.

For users who still want email updates, we've introduced new FeedBurner links on the right-hand panel of our blog homepage. You can subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking on the link for the product you're interested in, or subscribe by email by clicking on the [+] link to the right of the product name.

If you use any of the APIs that we discuss on this blog, make sure you subscribe to the feed to keep up with the latest news and updates: - Mike Cloonan, Ads Developer Relations Team
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We’re excited to announce our Ad Manager API Workshop on October 31, 2018. It may be Halloween, but there are no tricks, some treats, and a lot of information on how you can get more out of the Ad Manager API.

What is it?

A half-day event featuring technical talks by Google engineers and office hours with Google's Developer Relations team. Agenda with description for each of the talks is available on the registration site.

Who is the target audience?

The event is targeted toward developers who use or are interested in using the Ad Manager API. The talks will be technical, thus technical background is recommended for all attendees. This event is an opportunity for you to learn more about the API's capabilities and its newest features. This is also an opportunity for you to share feedback and influence direction by talking directly with Googlers who work on the API.

Where is it?

Google’s Chelsea Market Office
75 Ninth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011

How do I sign up?

To register, please visit registration site. Seating is limited, and after you register, we will reach back out to you to confirm your spot at the workshop.
 - , Ad Manager API Team
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On Friday, November 30, 2018, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201711 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 with Preferred Deals, forecasting, and reporting.

To upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, grab the latest version of your client library, and update your code.

Significant changes include:

This is not an exhaustive list, so be sure to check the release notes for a list of all changes. As always, don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions.

To be notified of future deprecations and sunsets, join the Ad Manager API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings. If you are an administrator on your network, you can now also receive notifications when an application is making requests to your network using a deprecated version, as explained in this post.
 - , Ad Manager API Team
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We’ve heard your feedback regarding the current API sunset notifications, and today we’re pleased to share some upcoming improvements.

Greater User Control
Network administrators will be able to choose whether or not to receive these notifications via the Notification Settings panel in the Ad Manager UI. Check the box next to Deprecated API in use to opt-in to the notifications. Administrators will be automatically opted-in at launch.








More Meaningful Information

Our communications already include a list of applications that are using the deprecated API version. The improved email notification also shows how many requests each application made to the deprecated API. We hope this will help you prioritize which applications need to be upgraded first and expedite the API upgrade process.


UI Notifications

Alongside the email notification, you will also receive a notification card in the Ad Manager UI. Both will be sent on the second Tuesday of each month.







These updates will be rolling out to network administrators in the coming weeks and we will announce in the release notes when they’re available. As always, upcoming deprecation and sunset dates are available on the deprecation schedule page. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach out to us on the Ad Manager API forums.
 - Nevin Mital, Ad Manager API Team
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We're happy to announce that v201808 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today. This version brings several new forecasting features, including forecast breakdowns by date and targeting. You can also forecast for AMP-only traffic and Proposal Line Items.

For video users, note that the new requestPlatformTargeting field is required when creating video line items.

For a full list of API changes in v201808, see the release notes.

If you're using one of our client libraries, you'll notice they've been updated to reflect our new name, so allow extra time for upgrading. A migration guide for each client library is available on GitHub: For questions about this or any other API changes, reach out to us on the Ad Manager API forums.
 - , DFP API Team
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With DoubleClick for Publishers becoming Google Ad Manager, the API will be undergoing changes to follow suit. Over the next month, there will be changes to our documentation and client libraries, but no API entities are changing yet.

Documentation

In late July, references to “DFP” will become “Google Ad Manager” or just “Ad Manager”. Also, the documentation URL will change from https://developers.google.com/doubleclick-publishers/ to https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/.

We will support redirects to all documentation pages. For example, if you have a bookmark for the ReportService, you don’t need to do anything for this bookmark to continue working.

Client Libraries

Each of our client libraries will be updated to remove references to DFP in the v201808 release, which is currently scheduled for August 14, 2018. For example, in the Java client library, the DfpServices class will be renamed to AdManagerServices.

Each client library will have its own guidelines for what needs to be updated. In the announcement blog post for v201808 we will link to these guides. Keep in mind that you’ll only need to refactor your code once upgrading to v201808 and beyond, so using the DFP names will still be supported by some versions of the client library until August, 2019.


As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us on our forum.

 - , DFP API Team
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On Friday, August 31, 2018, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201708 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re still using this version, now’s the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of fluid AdUnit sizes, Dynamic Ad Insertion options for video ads, and new reporting functionality.

In order to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, grab the latest version of your client library, and update your code.

Significant changes include:

This is not an exhaustive list, so be sure to check the release notes for a list of all changes. As always, don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions. To be notified of future deprecations and sunsets, join the DFP API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings.
 - , DFP API Team
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We're happy to announce that v201805 of the DFP API is available starting today. This release brings several new features for DFP Video advertising services, including a new service for DAI authentication and support for CdnConfigurationService actions.

This version also brings support for interstitial and native AdUnits.

For reporting users, v201805 adds support for filtering on many more AD_EXCHANGE dimensions. It also removes several deprecated dimensions and columns.

For a full list of API changes in v201805, see the release notes.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on the DFP API forums.

 - , DFP API Team
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An API is only as good as its documentation, which is why we’re pleased to announce some exciting improvements to the DFP API documentation based on user feedback. We hope these changes will make your workflow a little easier.

Additional information on report entities. We have added documentation for each Dimension, DimensionAttribute, and Column that states its UI name. This mapping from API entity names to UI entity names should make it easier to mimic report queries from the UI. Also, each of these report entities now has a list of compatible report types to help you determine which entities can be used with each other before running a report query.

Filtering report entity tables. There are a large number of Dimensions, DimensionAttributes, and Columns over which you can query a report. Also, as mentioned, we have added even more useful information to these entities. In order to better navigate this large body of documentation, you can now filter these entities on their name or description by entering keywords in the textbox that appears above each table.



Overall DFP documentation search. In addition to the reporting documentation improvements, we have also improved the overall search functionality on the DFP API documentation site. When you type a query into the search bar at the top of each page, the list of suggested results are now pulled only from the latest version, which allows more results to be shown instead of showing the same result across multiple versions.


As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us on our forum.

 - , DFP API Team
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On Thursday, May 31, 2018, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201705 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re still using this version, now’s the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of new features such as Preferred Deal support, reporting time zone configuration, and reporting currency configuration.

In order to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, grab the latest version of your client library, and update your code.

Significant changes include:

This is not an exhaustive list, so as always, don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions. To be notified of future deprecations and sunsets, join the DFP API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings.

 - , DFP API Team
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Starting on July 1, 2018, all releases of the Google Ads API Client Library for Java will only be compatible with Java 8 (1.8) and higher.

Why this change is happening
The primary reasons for this change are:
Next steps
If you are using Java 8 or higher, no action is required.

If you are still using Java 7, you'll have to migrate your runtime to Java 8 or higher. Check out the Java 8 adoption guide from Oracle to get started.

Still have questions? Feel free to file an issue on the library's issues page or contact us via our Google+ page.
- Josh Radcliff, AdWords API Team
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The Ad Exchange Seller REST API is deprecated. Existing API clients should migrate to the DoubleClick for Publishers API before July 26, 2018. After this date, all requests to the Ad Exchange Seller REST API will return errors.

This migration guide provides instructions for getting started, as well as a mapping of each Ad Exchange reporting metric to its equivalent in the DFP API.

For more details about reporting in the DFP API, see the reporting guide.

For general assistance with the DFP API or your migration, reach out on our developer forum.

 - , DFP API Team
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Today we’re pleased to announce several additions and improvements to the DFP API with the release of v201802. Here are the highlights:

LineItemService: The API now supports the Preferred Deals lineItemType, which allows you to programmatically offer inventory to specific buyers. Check out our Preferred Deals overview for more information.

PublisherQueryLanguageService: There are several new columns available through PQL in v201802. In the Audience_Segment PQL table, the newly added PpidSize column contains the number of unique viewers in a segment. In the Programmatic_Buyer PQL table, the new EnabledForPreferredDeals and EnabledForProgrammaticGuaranteed columns allow you to validate whether a buyer can be associated with a proposal based on the types of proposal line items it contains.

ReportService: A number of reporting features have made it from the UI into the API in v201802. The Demand Channel dimension is now available through the API via DEMAND_CHANNEL_NAME and DEMAND_CHANNEL_ID. Also, the Request Type can be accessed via REQUEST_TYPE. You can now filter proposal line items with the PROPOSAL_LINE_ITEM_TYPE dimension attribute. Finally, you can specify the currency type with adxReportCurrency for Ad Exchange Historical reports. You can read more on how Ad Exchange report currency works in Help Center.

For a full list of API changes in v201802, see the release notes.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the deprecations of our lives. If you're using v201705 or earlier, it's time to look into upgrading. Also, remember that v201702 will be sunset at the end of March 2018.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on the DFP API forums.
 - , DFP API Team
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On Friday, March 30, 2018, which is a one-month extension from the traditional deprecation schedule, v201702 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re still using this version, now’s the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of new features such as support for creating ImageOverlayCreatives, and new Ad Exchange reporting dimensions and columns. In order to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, grab the latest version of your client library, and update your code.

Significant changes include:

This is not an exhaustive list, so as always, don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions. To be notified of future deprecations and sunsets, join the DFP API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings.

 - , DFP API Team
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Today we're pleased to announce several additions and improvements to the DFP API with the release of v201711. This release includes a new service, CdnConfigurationService, which manages the configuration of DAI (Dynamic Ad Insertion) content ingestion and delivery networks.

Please note that Ad Exchange historical reports will be run in the Pacific timezone in v201711. This will allow you to report on Bid and Deals metrics. If you need to continue running Ad Exchange historical reports in your network timezone, please stay on v201708. Future versions will support both options.

Additionally, the release adds the ability to generate in-site preview URLs for native styles, and you can now determine if an AdUnit supports fluid sizes by looking at the new isFluid attribute.

For a full list of API changes in v201711, see the release notes.

With each new release comes a deprecation. If you're using v201611 or earlier, it's time to look into upgrading. Also remember that v201702 will be sunset at the end of February 2018.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to drop us a line on the DFP API forum.

 - , DFP API Team
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The Ad Exchange Seller REST API is being deprecated as of October 26, 2017. No new API clients will be supported after this date. Existing API clients will need to migrate to the DoubleClick for Publishers API before July 26, 2018. After this date, all requests to the Ad Exchange Seller REST API will return errors.

What action is required

Current Ad Exchange Seller REST API users will need to migrate to the DoubleClick for Publishers API before July 26, 2018. This migration guide provides a mapping of each Ad Exchange reporting metric to its equivalent in the DFP API.

For more details about reporting in the DFP API, see the reporting guide.
For general assistance with the DFP API or your migration, reach out on our developer forum.

Why this is happening


As a part of our effort to provide a unified tool to manage your ad business and monetize your inventory, the DoubleClick for Publishers API now supports all of the features of the Ad Exchange Seller REST API. The DFP API is more robust and has more frequent updates.

What isn't changing
Users will not need to create new accounts. All Ad Exchange Seller users already have a DoubleClick for Publishers account.

No data is changing. The only change is how you programmatically access that data.

 - , DFP API Team
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On Thursday, November 30th, 2017, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201611 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that time, any requests made to this version will return errors.

If you’re still using this version, now’s the time to upgrade to the latest release and take advantage of new features like support for creating ImageOverlayCreatives, new Ad Exchange reporting dimensions and columns, and the change history table. In order to upgrade, check the release notes to identify any breaking changes, grab the latest version of your client library, and update your code.

Significant changes include:


This is not an exhaustive list, so as always, don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions. To be notified of future deprecations and sunsets, join the DFP API Sunset Announcements group and adjust your notification settings.

 - , DFP API Team
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Today we’re pleased to announce several additions and improvements to the DFP API with the release of v201708.

CreativeService: The API now supports the skippableAdType attribute on VideoCreatives and the mezzanineFile asset on VideoRedirectCreatives.

CreativeWrapperService: The HTML header and footer fields have been renamed to htmlHeader and htmlFooter, and they are now strings instead of CreativeWrapperHtmlSnippets.

ProposalService: Proposals are now automatically synced with marketplace. Therefore, the proposal action SyncProposalsWithMarketplace has been removed (sending this action with performProposalAction is now a no-op in previous API versions).

PublisherQueryLanguageService: In v201702 the Change_History table was introduced. Now, new entities for Sales Management have been added to the EntityType column. The new entities are BASE_RATE, PREMIUM_RATE, PRODUCT, PRODUCT_PACKAGE, PRODUCT_PACKAGE_ITEM, PRODUCT_TEMPLATE, PROPOSAL, PROPOSAL_LINK, PROPOSAL_LINE_ITEM, PACKAGE, RATE_CARD, and WORKFLOW.

ReportService: DateRangeType now supports a new LAST_3_MONTHS option. Also, several deprecated reporting metrics have been removed. They can be replaced with their corresponding partner management metrics, so you will need to update any code using those fields. For more information, check out the support entry for partner management reporting metrics.

For a full list of API changes in v201708, see the release notes.

With each new release comes a new deprecation. If you're using v201611 or earlier, it's time to look into upgrading. Also, remember that v201608 will be sunset at the end of August 2017.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on the DFP API forums or the Ads Developer Google+ page.
 - , DFP API Team
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