Release Notes

v18 (2024-10-16)

The following new features and updates were added in v18.

Account Management

  • (For allowlisted accounts only) Added DataLinkService.CreateDataLink, which allows linking a Google Ads account to creator videos hosted on the creator's YouTube channel. Video linking enables the Google Ads account to run partnership ads using creator videos.

Ad Groups

Ads

Assets

Campaigns

Criterion

Hotel & Travel

Local Services

Performance Max

Planning

Recommendations

Reporting

v17.1.0 (2024-08-07)

The following new features and updates were added in v17_1.

Assets

Audiences

  • New enum values in UserListCustomerTypeCategory:
    • LOYALTY_TIER_1_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_2_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_3_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_4_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_5_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_6_MEMBERS
    • LOYALTY_TIER_7_MEMBERS

Campaigns

Change History

Conversions

Planning

  • AudienceInsights.GenerateAudienceOverlapInsights() which accepts an input primary attribute and a collection of audience attributes, and returns the estimates of the overlap of potential YouTube reach between the primary attribute and the audience attributes.

Reporting

Videos

v17 (2024-06-05)

The following features and changes were added in v17.

Ads

Assets

Audiences

Batch Jobs

Campaigns

  • Renamed Discovery to Demand Gen in all fields, enums, errors of all resources across the Google Ads API, such as campaigns, ads, and assets. For example, AdvertisingChannelType.DISCOVERY is now AdvertisingChannelType.DEMAND_GEN.
  • Added Campaign.keyword_match_type to let you set keyword match type for all keywords in a campaign.

Conversions

Criteria

Local Services

Reporting

Shopping

Unified Goals

Videos

  • Added the following values to ContentLabelType. You can exclude these ContentLabelTypes at the customer level:
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_CONTENT_FOR_FAMILIES
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_GAMES_FIGHTING
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_GAMES_MATURE
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_HEALTH_SENSITIVE
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_HEALTH_SOURCE_UNDETERMINED
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_NEWS_RECENT
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_NEWS_SENSITIVE
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_NEWS_SOURCE_NOT_FEATURED
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_POLITICS
    • BRAND_SUITABILITY_RELIGION
  • Added AdVideoAsset.ad_video_asset_info to support inventory preferences for video assets when creating DemandGenVideoResponsiveAdInfo.
  • (Allowlisted accounts only) Made Campaign.video_brand_safety_suitability mutable.

v16.1.0 (2024-04-24)

The following features and changes were added in v16.1.

Account Management

Assets

Audiences

Campaigns

Conversions

Criteria

Experiments

Local Services

Videos

v16 (2024-02-21)

The following features and changes were added in v16.

Account Management

Assets

Campaigns

Experiment

Hotel & Travel

Local Services

Planning

Recommendations

Shopping

Lifecycle Goals

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