Asset creation and usage

Most asset types must be created using the AssetService before they can be used in an ad. The TextAsset type is the exception as it is created inline during ad creation. All other types must first be uploaded to an advertiser's account before they can be used.

Create an asset

Unique names are required when creating image and media bundle assets. If you supply an existing name, a new name will be created by appending a unique string to the existing name. We strongly recommend that you use unique names that are descriptive to make it easier to manage and identify individual assets as your collection grows.

The following example shows how to create a new image asset from a URL of raw image data.

Java

private void runExample(GoogleAdsClient googleAdsClient, long customerId) throws IOException {
  byte[] imageData = ByteStreams.toByteArray(new URL(IMAGE_URL).openStream());

  // Create the image asset.
  ImageAsset imageAsset = ImageAsset.newBuilder().setData(ByteString.copyFrom(imageData)).build();

  // Creates an asset.
  Asset asset =
      Asset.newBuilder()
          // Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
          // When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different name, the
          // new name will be dropped silently.
          .setName("Marketing Image")
          .setType(AssetType.IMAGE)
          .setImageAsset(imageAsset)
          .build();

  // Creates the operation.
  AssetOperation operation = AssetOperation.newBuilder().setCreate(asset).build();

  // Creates the service client.
  try (AssetServiceClient assetServiceClient =
      googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createAssetServiceClient()) {
    // Issues a mutate request to add the asset.
    MutateAssetsResponse response =
        assetServiceClient.mutateAssets(Long.toString(customerId), ImmutableList.of(operation));
    // Prints the result.
    System.out.printf(
        "The image asset with resource name '%s' was created.%n",
        response.getResults(0).getResourceName());
  }
}UploadImageAsset.java

C#

public void Run(GoogleAdsClient client, long customerId)
{
    // Get the AssetServiceClient.
    AssetServiceClient assetService =
        client.GetService(Services.V18.AssetService);

    // Creates an image content.
    byte[] imageContent = MediaUtilities.GetAssetDataFromUrl(IMAGE_URL, client.Config);

    // Creates an image asset.
    ImageAsset imageAsset = new ImageAsset()
    {
        Data = ByteString.CopyFrom(imageContent),
        FileSize = imageContent.Length,
        MimeType = MimeType.ImageJpeg,
        FullSize = new ImageDimension()
        {
            HeightPixels = 315,
            WidthPixels = 600,
            Url = IMAGE_URL
        }
    };

    // Creates an asset.
    Asset asset = new Asset()
    {
        // Optional: Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
        // If you specify the name field, then both the asset name and the image being
        // uploaded should be unique, and should not match another ACTIVE asset in this
        // customer account.
        // Name = 'Jupiter Trip #' + ExampleUtilities.GetRandomString(),
        Type = AssetType.Image,
        ImageAsset = imageAsset,
        // Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
        // When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different
        // name, the new name will be dropped silently.
        Name = "Marketing Image"
    };

    // Creates an asset operation.
    AssetOperation operation = new AssetOperation()
    {
        Create = asset
    };

    try
    {
        // Issues a mutate request to add the asset.
        MutateAssetsResponse response =
            assetService.MutateAssets(customerId.ToString(), new[] { operation });

        // Displays the result.
        Console.WriteLine($"Image asset with resource name: " +
            $"'{response.Results.First().ResourceName}' is created.");
    }
    catch (GoogleAdsException e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
        Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
        throw;
    }
}UploadImageAsset.cs

PHP

public static function runExample(GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient, int $customerId)
{
    // Creates an image content.
    $imageContent = file_get_contents(self::IMAGE_URL);

    // Creates an asset.
    $asset = new Asset([
        // Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
        // When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different
        // name, the new name will be dropped silently.
        'name' => 'Marketing Image',
        'type' => AssetType::IMAGE,
        'image_asset' => new ImageAsset(['data' => $imageContent])
    ]);

    // Creates an asset operation.
    $assetOperation = new AssetOperation();
    $assetOperation->setCreate($asset);

    // Issues a mutate request to add the asset.
    $assetServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getAssetServiceClient();
    $response = $assetServiceClient->mutateAssets(MutateAssetsRequest::build(
        $customerId,
        [$assetOperation]
    ));

    if (!empty($response->getResults())) {
        // Prints the resource name of the added image asset.
        /** @var MutateAssetResult $addedImageAsset */
        $addedImageAsset = $response->getResults()[0];
        printf(
            "The image asset with resource name '%s' was created.%s",
            $addedImageAsset->getResourceName(),
            PHP_EOL
        );
    } else {
        print 'No image asset was created.' . PHP_EOL;
    }
}UploadImageAsset.php

Python

def main(client, customer_id):
    """Main method, to run this code example as a standalone application."""

    # Download image from URL
    url = "https://gaagl.page.link/Eit5"
    image_content = requests.get(url).content

    asset_service = client.get_service("AssetService")
    asset_operation = client.get_type("AssetOperation")
    asset = asset_operation.create
    asset.type_ = client.enums.AssetTypeEnum.IMAGE
    asset.image_asset.data = image_content
    asset.image_asset.file_size = len(image_content)
    asset.image_asset.mime_type = client.enums.MimeTypeEnum.IMAGE_JPEG
    # Use your favorite image library to determine dimensions
    asset.image_asset.full_size.height_pixels = 315
    asset.image_asset.full_size.width_pixels = 600
    asset.image_asset.full_size.url = url
    # Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
    # When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different
    # name, the new name will be dropped silently.
    asset.name = "Marketing Image"

    mutate_asset_response = asset_service.mutate_assets(
        customer_id=customer_id, operations=[asset_operation]
    )
    print("Uploaded file(s):")
    for row in mutate_asset_response.results:
        print(f"\tResource name: {row.resource_name}")
upload_image_asset.py

Ruby

def upload_image_asset(customer_id)
  # GoogleAdsClient will read a config file from
  # ENV['HOME']/google_ads_config.rb when called without parameters
  client = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::GoogleAdsClient.new

  url = 'https://gaagl.page.link/Eit5'
  image_data = open(url) { |f| f.read }

  # Create the operation for uploading the image asset.
  asset_operation = client.operation.create_resource.asset do |asset|
    asset.type = :IMAGE
    asset.image_asset = client.resource.image_asset do |image_asset|
      image_asset.data = image_data
      image_asset.file_size = image_data.length()
      image_asset.mime_type = :IMAGE_JPEG
      image_asset.full_size = client.resource.image_dimension do |dimension|
        dimension.height_pixels = 315
        dimension.width_pixels = 600
        dimension.url = url
      end
    end
    # Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
    # When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different
    # name, the new name will be dropped silently.
    asset.name = "Marketing Image"
  end

  # Upload the image asset.
  response = client.service.asset.mutate_assets(
    customer_id: customer_id,
    operations: [asset_operation],
  )

  puts "Uploaded image asset #{response.results.first.resource_name}."
endupload_image_asset.rb

Perl

sub upload_image_asset {
  my ($api_client, $customer_id) = @_;

  # Create an image content.
  my $image_content = get_base64_data_from_url(IMAGE_URL);

  # Create an asset.
  my $asset = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Resources::Asset->new({
      # Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset.
      # When there is an existing image asset with the same content but a different
      # name, the new name will be dropped silently.
      name       => "Marketing Image",
      type       => IMAGE,
      imageAsset => Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Common::ImageAsset->new({
          data => $image_content
        })});

  # Create an asset operation.
  my $asset_operation =
    Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Services::AssetService::AssetOperation->new({
      create => $asset
    });

  # Issue a mutate request to add the asset.
  my $assets_response = $api_client->AssetService()->mutate({
      customerId => $customer_id,
      operations => [$asset_operation]});

  printf "The image asset with resource name '%s' was created.\n",
    $assets_response->{results}[0]{resourceName};

  return 1;
}upload_image_asset.pl

After the asset has been created, the API returns a MutateAssetResult object that contains the resource name of the new ImageAsset. This resource name is used to reference the ImageAsset when creating an asset-based ad.

You can retrieve a list of existing assets and their resource names by querying the GoogleAdsService. See Fetching asset attribute and metrics for more details.

Use the asset in an ad

Different ad and campaign types support different asset types as shown in the following table:

Ad/Campaign types and the asset types they support
`AppAd`	`TextAsset` `ImageAsset` `VideoAsset` `MediaBundleAsset`
`AppEngagementAd`	`TextAsset` `ImageAsset` `VideoAsset`
`DisplayUploadAd`	`MediaBundleAsset`
Performance Max campaign	`TextAsset` `ImageAsset` `VideoAsset` `MediaBundleAsset` `YoutubeVideoAsset` `CallToActionAsset`
`ResponsiveDisplayAd`	`TextAsset` `ImageAsset` `VideoAsset`
`ResponsiveSearchAd`	`TextAsset`

Each of the above ad types has fields for setting the various asset types that it supports. For TextAsset, a new string asset is created inline within the ad. For all other asset types, existing assets are added to the ad by referencing their resource names.

The example below demonstrates adding a TextAsset and an ImageAsset to a ResponsiveDisplayAd. The TextAsset is created inline as the ad's headlines and description. The ImageAsset is specified by a resource name.

Asset recommendations

Recommendations can improve your assets in a couple ways:

They can suggest assets for you, which you can add to your campaign by calling RecommendationService.ApplyRecommendation. For example, you can retrieve CALLOUT_ASSET, SITELINK_ASSET, CALL_ASSET, LEAD_FORM_ASSET and RESPONSIVE_SEARCH_AD_ASSET recommendations, and then apply them to attach the recommended assets to the relevant campaign, ad group, or ad.

They can help you identify areas where you can update your assets to improve the overall strength of your responsive search ads or your Performance Max campaigns. For example, you can retrieve IMPROVE_PERFORMANCE_MAX_AD_STRENGTH recommendations to see which asset groups should be updated to improve their strength.

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Last updated 2024-12-18 UTC.

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