Create Campaign Budgets

Page Summary

Campaign budgets in the Google Ads API are shareable by default.
The provided examples show how to create a new average daily budget for a campaign using various programming languages.
The Google Ads API offers several recommendation types, such as CAMPAIGN_BUDGET, MOVE_UNUSED_BUDGET, MARGINAL_ROI_CAMPAIGN_BUDGET, and FORECASTING_CAMPAIGN_BUDGET, to help optimize campaign budgets.
These recommendations provide suggestions for new budget amounts, reallocating excess budget, and adjusting budgets based on predicted ROI or future constraints.

There are two types of budgets: average daily budgets and campaign total budgets. You can create either type using CampaignBudgetService.

Create an average daily budget

This is the average amount you're willing to spend per day for this campaign. You can set an average daily budget with amount_micros of CampaignBudget. The budget period defaults to DAILY.

The following example creates a new average daily budget for a campaign.

Java

private static String addCampaignBudget(GoogleAdsClient googleAdsClient, long customerId) {
  CampaignBudget budget =
      CampaignBudget.newBuilder()
          .setName("Interplanetary Cruise Budget #" + getPrintableDateTime())
          .setDeliveryMethod(BudgetDeliveryMethod.STANDARD)
          .setAmountMicros(500_000)
          .build();

  CampaignBudgetOperation op = CampaignBudgetOperation.newBuilder().setCreate(budget).build();

  try (CampaignBudgetServiceClient campaignBudgetServiceClient =
      googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createCampaignBudgetServiceClient()) {
    MutateCampaignBudgetsResponse response =
        campaignBudgetServiceClient.mutateCampaignBudgets(
            Long.toString(customerId), ImmutableList.of(op));
    String budgetResourceName = response.getResults(0).getResourceName();
    System.out.printf("Added budget: %s%n", budgetResourceName);
    return budgetResourceName;
  }
}AddCampaigns.java

C#

private static string CreateBudget(GoogleAdsClient client, long customerId)
{
    // Get the BudgetService.
    CampaignBudgetServiceClient budgetService = client.GetService(
        Services.V23.CampaignBudgetService);

    // Create the campaign budget.
    CampaignBudget budget = new CampaignBudget()
    {
        Name = "Interplanetary Cruise Budget #" + ExampleUtilities.GetRandomString(),
        DeliveryMethod = BudgetDeliveryMethod.Standard,
        AmountMicros = 500000
    };

    // Create the operation.
    CampaignBudgetOperation budgetOperation = new CampaignBudgetOperation()
    {
        Create = budget
    };

    // Create the campaign budget.
    MutateCampaignBudgetsResponse response = budgetService.MutateCampaignBudgets(
        customerId.ToString(), new CampaignBudgetOperation[] { budgetOperation });
    return response.Results[0].ResourceName;
}AddCampaigns.cs

PHP

private static function addCampaignBudget(GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient, int $customerId)
{
    // Creates a campaign budget.
    $budget = new CampaignBudget([
        'name' => 'Interplanetary Cruise Budget #' . Helper::getPrintableDatetime(),
        'delivery_method' => BudgetDeliveryMethod::STANDARD,
        'amount_micros' => 500000
    ]);

    // Creates a campaign budget operation.
    $campaignBudgetOperation = new CampaignBudgetOperation();
    $campaignBudgetOperation->setCreate($budget);

    // Issues a mutate request.
    $campaignBudgetServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getCampaignBudgetServiceClient();
    $response = $campaignBudgetServiceClient->mutateCampaignBudgets(
        MutateCampaignBudgetsRequest::build($customerId, [$campaignBudgetOperation])
    );

    /** @var CampaignBudget $addedBudget */
    $addedBudget = $response->getResults()[0];
    printf("Added budget named '%s'%s", $addedBudget->getResourceName(), PHP_EOL);

    return $addedBudget->getResourceName();
}AddCampaigns.php

Python

# Create a budget, which can be shared by multiple campaigns.
campaign_budget_operation: CampaignBudgetOperation = client.get_type(
    "CampaignBudgetOperation"
)
campaign_budget: CampaignBudget = campaign_budget_operation.create
campaign_budget.name = f"Interplanetary Budget {uuid.uuid4()}"
campaign_budget.delivery_method = (
    client.enums.BudgetDeliveryMethodEnum.STANDARD
)
campaign_budget.amount_micros = 500000

# Add budget.
campaign_budget_response: MutateCampaignBudgetsResponse
try:
    budget_operations: List[CampaignBudgetOperation] = [
        campaign_budget_operation
    ]
    campaign_budget_response = (
        campaign_budget_service.mutate_campaign_budgets(
            customer_id=customer_id,
            operations=budget_operations,
        )
    )
except GoogleAdsException as ex:
    handle_googleads_exception(ex)add_campaigns.py

Ruby

# Create a budget, which can be shared by multiple campaigns.
campaign_budget = client.resource.campaign_budget do |cb|
  cb.name = "Interplanetary Budget #{(Time.new.to_f * 1000).to_i}"
  cb.delivery_method = :STANDARD
  cb.amount_micros = 500000
end

operation = client.operation.create_resource.campaign_budget(campaign_budget)

# Add budget.
return_budget = client.service.campaign_budget.mutate_campaign_budgets(
  customer_id: customer_id,
  operations: [operation],
)add_campaigns.rb

Perl

# Create a campaign budget, which can be shared by multiple campaigns.
my $campaign_budget =
  Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V23::Resources::CampaignBudget->new({
    name           => "Interplanetary budget #" . uniqid(),
    deliveryMethod => STANDARD,
    amountMicros   => 500000
  });

# Create a campaign budget operation.
my $campaign_budget_operation =
  Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V23::Services::CampaignBudgetService::CampaignBudgetOperation
  ->new({create => $campaign_budget});

# Add the campaign budget.
my $campaign_budgets_response = $api_client->CampaignBudgetService()->mutate({
    customerId => $customer_id,
    operations => [$campaign_budget_operation]});add_campaigns.pl

Create a campaign total budget

This is the total amount you're willing to spend over the entire duration of the campaign. To create a campaign total budget, set the budget period to CUSTOM_PERIOD and set total_amount_micros. Campaign total budgets cannot be shared across campaigns, so you must set explicitly_shared to false when creating a budget with a period of CUSTOM_PERIOD.

When coding, the fields are the same as for an average daily budget, except for period and total_amount_micros.

Campaign budget recommendations

The Google Ads API provides some recommendation types to help you optimize your campaign budgets:

CAMPAIGN_BUDGET suggests a new budget amount for budget-constrained campaigns.
MOVE_UNUSED_BUDGET highlights opportunities to reallocate excess budget from one campaign to another budget-constrained campaign.
MARGINAL_ROI_CAMPAIGN_BUDGET suggests a new budget amount for campaigns whose ROI is predicted to increase with a budget adjustment.
FORECASTING_CAMPAIGN_BUDGET suggests a new budget amount for campaigns that are expected to become budget-constrained in the future.

For additional recommendation types and guidance on working with recommendations in the Google Ads API, visit the Optimization score and recommendations guide.

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