Sandbox Maintenance, August 31

We're planning to refresh the Sandbox this Friday at 4 p.m. PDT. As a result, it will be unavailable for several hours and all the data will be cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block.

-- Aaron Karp

V11 Release Delayed

Due to some technical issues, we’ve decided to delay the release of v11 (originally planned for this week) for a few more weeks. While we could release some components of v11 now, we feel it is better to delay the entire release in order to minimize the number of versions we launch in a year.

However, please note that v9 will still be sunset on September 10, 2007. Therefore, please make sure you have upgraded your applications to v10 by this date.

-- Jon Diorio

CANCELED: August 25 System Maintenance

Late last night our engineers were able to implement the upgrades that were originally scheduled for this Saturday’s maintenance period. Therefore, we have canceled this weekend’s system maintenance. All systems will remain operational and available.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

Unscheduled AdWords Maintenance – August 25

We will be performing unscheduled AdWords maintenance from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT on Saturday, August 25, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

--Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

*** Update as of August 23 at 9am PT ***

This maintenance period has been CANCELED

Late last night our engineers were able to implement the upgrades that were originally scheduled for this Saturday’s maintenance period. All systems will remain operational and available.

New Rate Sheet Reductions

Over the past few weeks we have tested and implemented server enhancements that enable us to drive greater efficiencies from some of our more costly operations. Therefore, we are happy to announce the following rate sheet reductions:

• addAds = 125 units (formerly 250)
• addCriteria = 25 units (formerly 50)

These changes will take effect immediately.

And as always, we encourage all developers to use list methods whenever possible (e.g. addCampaignList). They are the most efficient way to process large data sets.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

V9 Sunset Extended to September 10

We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20. This is the same week we were planning to sunset V9.

Since we understand that some of you may prefer to upgrade directly from V9 to V11, we have decided to delay the v9 sunset by three weeks. Therefore, V9 will now be sunset on September 10.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

AdWords Downtime, August 11th

Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs

We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API specifically during this time, but your ads will continue to run as normal.

REMINDER: Version 9 Shutdown on August 20

Just a reminder… per our announcement on April 20, we will shutdown version 9 of the API on August 20.

Please make sure to migrate your applications to version 10 by August 20. You can find more information about these versions (including the release notes) at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/index.html.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

UPDATE as of Aug 7, 2007
We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20. Since we understand that some of you may prefer to upgrade directly from V9 to V11, we have decided to delay the v9 sunset by three weeks. Therefore, V9 will now be sunset on September 10.