API Version 9 Now Available

We are happy to announce the release of the AdWords API Version 9 (V9).

V9 introduces four major changes – and a few minor changes – to the AdWords API. This announcement highlights only the major components of the release. For complete details on all V9 changes, please see our Release Notes.

V9 HIGHLIGHTS

• Support for Video Ads: You can now create and manage click-to-play video ads for both keyword- and site-targeted campaigns (video upload not supported via the API)
• Local Time Zone Statistics: Now all calls return statistics in the account's local time zone (we have removed the inPST parameter)
• Batch Check Ads: Before you try to insert or update ads, you can now check a batch of ads for policy errors.

REMOVED CREATIVESERVICE

Per our February 15 post, we have removed the CreativeService from this latest version. Therefore, CreativeService will no longer be available after July 9, 2007 (see sunset info below).

V8 SUNSET IN JULY 2007

Per our versioning policy, V8 will be supported for four months from today, at which time it will be turned off. Therefore, please make sure that you upgrade to V9 before July 9, 2007.

And as a reminder, please remember that we will shutdown V7 on May 21, 2007.

As with every new version, we strongly urge you to review the Release Notes section of the Developer’s Guide.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

System Maintenance - March 10

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, March 10, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period.

--Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

REMINDER: V6 Shutdown on March 12

Just a reminder… per our announcement on November 9, we will shutdown Version 6 of the API on Monday, March 12, 2007.

Please make sure you migrate your applications to Version 7 or 8 by March 12. 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

Sandbox Maintenance - February 23

We will perform our regular refresh of the API Sandbox database on Friday, February 23. As a result, the Sandbox will be unavailable for a few hours.

As a result of this database refresh, all Sandbox user and account data will be erased. Therefore, you will need to first make a request without including a clientEmail header (call getClientAccounts for example) to create your five Sandbox client accounts.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

Pause/Resume Feature Now Available

The Pause/Resume keywords, websites, and creatives feature that was announced as part of the V7 release is now available in the Production API (previously it was a sandbox-only feature) and the AdWords web interface (adwords.google.com). You can find more information about this feature in the AdWords API V7 Release Notes.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

Sunsetting CreativeService in July

Some of you may have noticed that our recently V8 release contains a new service called AdService. As we mentioned in our January 18 post, AdService provides improved functionality over our current CreativeService and will eventually replace it. Among other things, AdService provides expanded support for different ad formats (such as Mobile Ads and Local Business Ads) and the new Business data object.

The latest version of the AdWords API (V8) will be the last version to contain CreativeService. Therefore, developers upgrading to V9 will need to migrate from CreativeService to AdService.

Given that we plan to release V9 in March, this means that V8 (and CreativeService) will be sunset four months later in July 2007.

You can find more information about AdService in the V8 Release Notes.

-- Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

System Maintenance - February 10

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, February 10, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period.

--Jon Diorio, Product Marketing