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 [...]

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, [...]

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.

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, 2007We [...]

Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs
We’re planning to refresh the Sandbox again tomorrow at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it’ll be unavailable for several hours and all associated data cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block.

The Campaign Access bug we reported earlier today was fixed at approximately 5pm PST.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you, and thank you for your patience.
– Jon Diorio, Product Marketing

On Tuesday, July 24, we released some bug fixes that unfortunately prevented some advertisers from modifying campaigns that leverage the ‘position preference’ and ‘preferred cost bidding’ features. Our engineers diagnosed the issue yesterday and we plan to correct the issue today.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and will notify you [...]

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, July 14, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period.
-Aaron KarpAdWords API Team

Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs
One of the shiny, new features exposed in v8 of the AdWords API is local business ads. Local business ads aren’t your typical ad fare, so we thought we’d properly introduce you to them and how they work with the API.
What Are They?
Local business ads let you reach [...]

Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs
We’re planning to do our regular refresh of the AdWords API Sandbox tomorrow at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it’ll be unavailable for several hours and all associated data cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a [...]