Report and optimize

Reporting information for Demand Gen campaigns can be retrieved at different levels, similar to other campaign types.

Campaign-level reporting

As with other campaign types, you can use GoogleAdsService.SearchStream to retrieve attributes and performance metrics for Demand Gen campaigns.

SELECT
  campaign.id,
  campaign.status,
  campaign.bidding_strategy_type
FROM campaign
WHERE campaign.advertising_channel_type = DISCOVERY

To retrieve clicks in reporting for Demand Gen campaigns, filter by click_type of CROSS_NETWORK.

Ad-level reporting

There are three types of Demand Gen ads supported by the Google Ads API. Use these queries with GoogleAdsService.SearchStream to retrieve them.

SELECT
  ad_group_ad.ad.id,
  ad_group_ad.ad.type,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.marketing_images,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.square_marketing_images,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.portrait_marketing_images,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.logo_images,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.headlines,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.descriptions,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.business_name,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.call_to_action_text,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_multi_asset_ad.lead_form_only
FROM ad_group_ad
WHERE ad_group_ad.ad.type = DISCOVERY_MULTI_ASSET_AD

SELECT
  ad_group_ad.ad.id,
  ad_group_ad.ad.type,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.business_name,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.logo_image,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.headline,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.description,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.call_to_action_text,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_carousel_ad.carousel_cards
FROM ad_group_ad
WHERE ad_group_ad.ad.type = DISCOVERY_CAROUSEL_AD

SELECT
  ad_group_ad.ad.id,
  ad_group_ad.ad.type,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.breadcrumb1,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.breadcrumb2,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.business_name,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.call_to_actions,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.descriptions,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.headlines,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.logo_images,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.long_headlines,
  ad_group_ad.ad.discovery_video_responsive_ad.videos,
FROM ad_group_ad
WHERE ad_group_ad.ad.type = DISCOVERY_VIDEO_RESPONSIVE_AD

Asset-level reporting

Demand Gen campaigns have a specialized asset type for carousel ads. Use GoogleAdsService.SearchStream to retrieve these assets.

SELECT
  asset.id,
  asset.discovery_carousel_card_asset.marketing_image_asset,
  asset.discovery_carousel_card_asset.square_marketing_image_asset,
  asset.discovery_carousel_card_asset.portrait_marketing_image_asset,
  asset.discovery_carousel_card_asset.headline,
  asset.discovery_carousel_card_asset.call_to_action_text
FROM asset
WHERE asset.type = DISCOVERY_CAROUSEL_CARD

You can also retrieve metrics for DISCOVERY_CAROUSEL_CARD assets.

SELECT
  asset.id,
  asset.name,
  asset.type,
  metrics.impressions
FROM ad_group_ad_asset_view
WHERE ad_group_ad_asset_view.field_type = DISCOVERY_CAROUSEL_CARD

Unsupported entities

Ads that show up in the Google Ads frontend with ad type "Demand Gen video ad (legacy)" are not supported by the Google Ads API and won't be returned by GoogleAdsService.SearchStream

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