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As you may have heard, we’re updating our AdWords login system to Google Accounts. Starting in early November, you and your clients will be invited to update your account(s). By updating your account, you will be able to establish multiple logins for…

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 9pm to 11pm PDT on Friday, October 21, 2005. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you will not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance perio…

Later this week we will be adding a new error code to the API: error code 86, Account_Blocked. This error code indicates that the account you are trying to access has been blocked due to suspicious activity. We are in the process of adding this new i…

As some of you may remember, I posted a piece on August 12 that explained how you can save time and bandwidth by downloading compressed reports. Well now there’s an easier way to download these reports.As of this afternoon you can request compressed…

Some developers have expressed concern over our planned deprecation of KeywordService. While we have not yet set a date for final removal, we will notify you at least four weeks prior to shutting KeywordService off.Until then, we encourage all of our …

On January 1, 2006, we will launch the new AdWords Commercial Developer Program, an optional program designed to help commercial AdWords developers meet their client and business needs by providing greater API access and support.This voluntary program …

As one developer recently (and most astutely) noted, the current rate sheet states that setKeywordListMaxCpc and setKeywordListSingleMaxCpc operations consume 10 quota units each, while updateKeyword and updateKeywordList consume 1 quota unit each. Or …

Thank you all for your patience. We have corrected the issue with last week’s release of site targeting and CPM bidding functionality, and have re-released the code.For more information on these new functions, please review last week’s post or cons…

This afternoon at 4:30pm PDT we completed a process that restored the affected Keyword Destination URL’s to their original values (specifically, the value they held on September 20 at 4:00pm PDT before the bug was released).To ensure that we didn’…

I wanted to update everybody on yesterday’s bug and code roll-back.From Tuesday, Sept 20th at 4:00pm (PST) to Wednesday, Sept 21st at 11am (PST) all calls to the KeywordService SOAP API methods setKeywordListMaxCpc and setKeywordListSingleMaxCPC resu…

We have exposed new functionality through the API that allows you to take advantage of existing AdWords site targeting and related CPM (cost per thousand) bidding. This new functionality lets advertisers choose individual sites in the Google Content Ne…

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 9pm to 11pm PDT on Friday, September 23, 2005. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you will not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance per…

Last week we made some changes to the AdWords API WSDL, changing a few fields to nillable. This causes problems with certain toolkits, like the .NET Framework, for int nillable fields: the toolkit does not know how to map null values to value types suc…

We’ve added 2 new features to the AdWords API: animated image ads and the ability to get client login email addresses. These features have been implemented and documented, so you can start using them.CreativeService describes how you can now use animat…

We’ll be performing system maintenance on the AdWords reporting infrastructure on Thurs., Sept. 8, from 12 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (PDT). During this time, any reports pulled from the Report Service will not be up-to-date. Shortly after the system maintenanc…