REMINDER: V3 Shutdown on July 12

Just a reminder… per our announcement on May 12, we will shutdown Version 3 of the API on Wednesday, July 12, 2006.

Please make sure you have migrated your applications to Version 4 by July 12. You can find more information about Version 4 (including the release notes) at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/index.html.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

System Maintenance - June 24

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10am to 2pm PT on Saturday, June 24, 2006. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance period. We had originally planned to skip this maintenance period, but an issue arose recently that is forcing us to schedule the downtime.

We apologize for the last minute notice, and are taking steps to provide you with earlier notification of scheduled system downtimes.

--Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

DELAY: Revisions to the AdWords API Beta Program

Thank you all for your input and patience. We’d like to update you on our earlier April 11 announcement.

Some of you have requested more time to adapt your business models and products to the pending AdWords API Beta Program revisions. Given that many of you work on a quarterly billing cycle, we have decided to postpone our program revisions by one quarter.

Therefore, the new pricing model will launch on October 1, 2006, and the new registration pages and new Terms and Conditions will be posted in August.

Thank you again for your feedback, and we hope that you find this postponement beneficial.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

setLocalTimezone Method now Available

As a follow-up to our May 12 posting about the V4 release, we wanted to let you all know that the setLocalTimezone method has been enabled.

All new AdWords accounts are now required to specify their account’s time zone during the sign-up process. Therefore, this method should be used on existing accounts that have not yet set their account time zone.

Please note that existing account owners will have until July 30 to set their accounts’ time zones. The setLocalTimezone method will be disabled after this date.

If you would like to learn more about our new Local Time Zone support, please read our April 27 posting on the subject.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

System Maintenance - June 3

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10am to 2pm PST on Saturday, June 3, 2006. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you will not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance period.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

--Jon Diorio, Sr. Product Marketing "Guy"