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 [...]

Just a reminder… per our announcement on March 15, we will shutdown Version 8 of the API on July 9.
Please make sure to migrate your applications to version 9 or 10 by July 9. 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

Based on feedback from many of our beta testers, we have made the IncludeZeroImpression field in KeywordReportJob and CustomReportJob accessible to all developers. Previously, this field was restricted to beta testers.
Please note that very large reports that include zero impression rows may fail (indicated by error code 112). If your report fails as [...]

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, June 9, 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

Last weekend’s regularly scheduled AdWords system maintenance was postponed at the last minute. Therefore, we have rescheduled this month’s system maintenance period to occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, May 19, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API [...]

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, May 12, 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

Just a reminder… per our announcement on January 18, we will shutdown Version 7 of the API on May 21.
Please make sure you migrate your applications to Version 8, 9 or 10 by May 21. 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

We are happy to announce the release of the AdWords API Version 10 (V10).
V10 introduces six changes to the AdWords API. Below, you’ll find a few highlights from this release. For a complete list of V10 changes, please see our release notes.
V10 HIGHLIGHTS

Site Suggestion Service: The new SiteSuggestionService provides operations for [...]

We will perform our regular refresh of the API Sandbox database on Friday, April 20 at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, the Sandbox will be unavailable for a few hours.
The database refresh will erase all Sandbox user and account data. Therefore, you will need to first make a request without including a clientEmail header [...]