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The Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Version 8 will be available in the Production environment in August. Version 8 includes new and updated features to help you better manage your search and content advertising:
Global Targeting offers you greater targeting control. The LanguageAndRegion elements are divided into separate Language and PublisherCountries elements, allowing fo rmore specific targeting.
Notifications API can help you keep your account up-to-date and avoid potential campaign performance issues. Its service operations can retrieve adCenter notifications, such as a reminder that your credit card is about to expire, or an alert that a campaign budget has been depleted.
New Budget Options provide simpler budget options in adCenter. There are two new daily budget options: Standard, which divides your budget evenly throughout the day; and Accelerated, which allows your budget to spend until depleted. The monthly budget option to Divide Across the Month will no longer be available in version 8.
AdIntelligence is a new service in the adcenter API set that offers bid estimation, keyword research and keyword extraction from web site urls. New in Adcenter API V8, Ad Intelligence is available to all API advertisers. You may opt to use the Ad Intelligence
Continue reading Learn About the New Features in Upcoming adCenter API Version 8
On Saturday, July 23, 2011, the adCenter web user interface, Desktop (Beta) and API will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 AM PDT to 7:00 PM PDT for routine system maintenance. Users in all markets will be unable to access adCenter during this time. Please note that campaigns will continue to run normally.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks!
Tina Kelleher, SMB Community Manager
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Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/07/12/microsoft-advertising-api-maintenance-7-23-from-11am-7-pm-pdt.aspx
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Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/02/07/videos-anyone.aspx
Hello Resellers
Just want to let you know that we removed the AddAccount operation from the MSDN documentation. The AddAccount operation is meant for internal use only. Calling AddAccount is not supported. Instead of calling AddAccount to add multiple accounts to a customer, you should call the SignupCustomer operation for each account that you need to add. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.
If AddAccount is something that you’d like to use, please let us know the scenario in which you’d use it.
Thanks
Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/02/05/addaccount-is-for-internal-use-only.aspx
Microsoft Advertising adCenter is undergoing scheduled maintenance on the Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Sandbox environment from February 9 to February 11. UPDATE 2/16: Maintenance has been extended through Thursday, February 17th. During this time, you might experience intermittent issues while accessing the Sandbox environment.
While the Sandbox environment will not be available, the API Production environment will operate as usual and ads will continue to serve.
If you have any questions, please visit the API Forum
Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/02/08/microsoft-advertising-adcenter-api-sandbox-environment-maintenance-february-9th-to-11th.aspx
Until recently, access to the Microsoft Advertising adCenter Application Programming Interface (API) has been restricted to a small set of invitation-only pilot customers that met stringent criteria.
Now, advertisers of all shapes and sizes can request API access.
If you’re not familiar with managing PPC campaigns via an API, the adCenter API would enable you to programmatically access Microsoft adCenter to manage your accounts, campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads. By building your own custom application that can “talk” to adCenter, you can efficiently manage large volumes of account and campaign transactions as bulk operations. The adCenter API can help you improve your return on investment by making campaign management easier, more efficient, and potentially less expensive.
More specifically, the adCenter API can help you:
• Create and manage campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads for large numbers of accounts.
• Retrieve adCenter business intelligence data for one or many accounts.
• Manage campaigns by revising budgets, targeting ad groups, updating bids, pausing ads, etc.
• Remove existing campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.
API users can develop an application to access the API
Continue reading You Asked for It: Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Access for All!
Today there were a couple of posts that went up on the adCenter Blog that I think are worth cross-posting here:
1.) Microsoft Advertising adCenter will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Pacific Time on Saturday, March 12.
Here’s what you need to know…
During this time, your ads will continue to serve, but you will be unable to make campaign updates via the UI, Desktop or API during the maintenance window. if you’re working on offline updates via the Desktop, you may upload them once the maintenance is complete. All reporting is expected to be up to date by March 13. We recommend that you rerun all your adCenter reports that include the downtime period, from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. March 12.
If you have any questions, leave a comment below.
2.) Today at SMX West, Rathna Sharad announced that adCenter will soon incorporate Quality Scores to help you refine and imrpove your PPC campaigns’ effectiveness… for more detailed information and to ask questions about it in the comments section, visit Paul Corkery’s post on the adCenter Blog.
Thanks!
Tina Kelleher, Small/Medium Business Community Manager
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Continue reading Scheduled Maintenance for Microsoft adCenter API and News About Quality Score Coming Soon
Hi
Microsoft Advertising adCenter API clients, generally those using the Java programming language, are receiving intermittent to frequent SSL connection reset error messages. We are working quickly to resolve this issue, and will post additional information here when available. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Jeff Dillon, Microsoft adCenter API Support
Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/03/14/api-ssl-connection-reset-issue.aspx
Hi
We will be doing server maintenance on the Sandbox environment on Wednesday 3/16 from 3-7 PM Pacific Daylight Time. During this time, the environment, both UI and API, will be unavailable. Apologies for any inconvenience. This affects Sandbox only. Production will be unaffected and Production ads will continue to serve normally.
Sincerely,
Jeff Dillon, API Support
Article source: http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/blogs/api/archive/2011/03/15/sandbox-maintenance-on-3-16-from-3-7-pm-pdt.aspx
At Dealer.com, we have had api access with the Resellers Role, for approximately 18 months. We have had a growing business with Microsoft AdCenter and are managing approximately 1000 customers. We drive constant adgroup creation and updates for all our customer car dealers as we respond to inventory and manufacturer’s incentives. This is a lot of api traffic.
Here are my recommendations.
1) Most api calls involve lists of campaign objects. api calls always rollback everything on fail. This is a good design, but can give rise to some inconveniences when dealing with lists of objects. If one object fails, I have to analyze the fails, but then I have to redrive the good objects back into the api. It would be convenient to have had the 1st call proceed successfully on the objects that had no issue.
2) Latency between operations involving parent and child objects. I recognize that MSN has a large server complex needs time to propagate changes. However, this latency is a throughput inhibitor. Currently, the time delays need to be large for consistent reliability. A server affinity solution to keep an api user on the same MSN server would be a
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