Google Ad Manager API release notes

This page documents production updates to Google Ad Manager API. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated features.

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December 04, 2025

Announcement

Upcoming changes to draft reports

On or after January 5, 2026:
Requests using SAVED visibility value will normalize to the alias value VISIBLE.

Reports with a DRAFT visibility will be automatically migrated: * The Report.visibility field will be set to VISIBLE * The current Report.reportDefinition value will be copied to a new draftReportDefinition field * The Report.reportDefinition field will be unset

Reports must have a reportDefinition to run:

draftReportDefinition reportDefinition RunReport Behavior
Unset Set Runs reportDefinition
Set Set Runs reportDefinition
Set Unset Error

Clients running or writing reports with Visibility.DRAFT must update the report to Visibility.VISIBLE using the API or by naming the report in the UI before January 5, 2026.

On or after January 30, 2026:
The DRAFT and SAVED values will be removed. Requests using DRAFT and SAVED values will fail.

Clients must migrate to using Visibility.VISIBLE by January 30, 2026.

Announcement

On or after January 30, 2026, errors will no longer include AdManagerError objects in the error.details field. The same error information is provided in the google.rpc.BadRequest object.

Before January 5, 2026:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Field foo is not supported for filtering.",
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.admanager.v1.AdManagerError",
        "errorCode": "PARSE_ERROR_UNPARSABLE",
        "message": "Field foo is not supported for filtering."
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest",
        "fieldViolations": [
          {
            "description": "Field foo is not supported for filtering.",
            "reason": "PARSE_ERROR_UNPARSABLE",
            "localizedMessage": {
              "message": "Field foo is not supported for filtering."
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.RequestInfo",
        "requestId": "8897430220173363092"
      }
    ]
  }
}

On or after January 5, 2026:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Field foo is not supported for filtering.",
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest",
        "fieldViolations": [
          {
            "description": "Field foo is not supported for filtering.",
            "reason": "PARSE_ERROR_UNPARSABLE",
            "localizedMessage": {
              "message": "Field foo is not supported for filtering."
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.RequestInfo",
        "requestId": "8897430220173363092"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Clients that rely on AdManagerError must migrate to use BadRequest before January 5, 2026.

Breaking

Renamed Report metric USER_MESSAGES_CCPA_MESSAGES_SHOWN to USER_MESSAGES_US_STATES_MESSAGES_SHOWN.

Feature

Added LineItem resource.

Feature

Added support for creating and updating customTargetingKeys.

Feature

Added support for creating and updating adUnits.

Feature

Added support for creating and updating customFields.

Feature

Added support for creating and updating placements.

Feature

Added support for reading, allowing, and blocking adReviewCenterAds.

Feature

Added additional report dimensions, metrics, types, and date ranges.

Feature

Added AudienceSegment resource.

Feature

Added BandwidthGroup resource.

Feature

Added Contact resource.

Feature

Added ContentLabel resource.

Feature

Added CreativeTemplate resource.

Feature

Added Team resource.

August 29, 2025

Announcement

In an upcoming release, the following Report dimensions and metrics will be renamed:

Current value New value
PROGRAMMATIC_BUYER_ID DEAL_BUYER_ID
PROGRAMMATIC_BUYER_NAME DEAL_BUYER_NAME
AD_SERVER_UNFILTERED_IMPRESSIONS AD_SERVER_UNFILTERED_DOWNLOADED_IMPRESSIONS

The current values will be marked as deprecated but will be supported as an alias to the new value until October 1st, 2025. The server will normalize usage to the new values. For example, if a client uses PROGRAMMATIC_BUYER_ID when creating a Report, the response from the server will contain DEAL_BUYER_ID.

On or after October 1st, 2025 the deprecated values will be removed and requests using these values will fail. Clients must migrate to the new values before October 1st, 2025.

August 12, 2025

Announcement

In an upcoming release, Report messages will be restructured. These changes are wire compatible, but this change will alter the import paths in client libraries.

Current Type Path New Type Path
Report.Field ReportDefinition.Field
Report.DateRange ReportDefinition.DateRange
Report.Sort ReportDefinition.Sort
Report.Filter ReportDefinition.Filter
Report.Slice ReportDefinition.Slice
Report.Flag ReportDefinition.Flag
Report.ReportType ReportDefinition.ReportType
Report.Dimension ReportDefinition.Dimension
Report.Metric ReportDefinition.Metric
Report.MetricValueType ReportDefinition.MetricValueType
Report.TimePeriodColumn ReportDefinition.TimePeriodColumn
Report.TimeZoneSource ReportDefinition.TimeZoneSource
Report.Value ReportValue
Report.DataTable ReportDataTable
Schedule ScheduleOptions.Schedule
Feature

Added CmsMetadataValue resource.

Feature

Added CmsMetadataKey resource.

Feature

Added DeviceManufacturer resource.

Feature

Added MobileCarrier resource.

Feature

Added Application resource.

Feature

Added Content resource.

Feature

Added MobileDeviceSubmodel resource.

Feature

Added methods for reading and writing Contact resources.

Feature

Added ContentBundle resource.

Feature

Added additional Report dimensions and metrics.

Feature

Added DeviceCapability resource.

Feature

Added Browser resource.

Feature

Added MobileDevice resource.

Feature

Added BrowserLanguage resource.

June 26, 2025

Breaking

The canonical resource name for CustomTargetingValue has been changed from
networks/{networkCode}/customTargetingKeys/{customTargetingKeyId}/customTargetingValues/{customTargetingValueId}
to
networks/{networkCode}/customTargetingValues/{customTargetingValueId}.

To retrieve custom targeting values for a specific key, use the method networks.customTargetingValues.list with a filter on customTargetingKey.

Clients using the old format should migrate before July 28th, 2025. Requests using the old format will fail on or after July 28th, 2025.

Change

AdBreak, AdUnit, CustomField , Placement , and Role resources now include fields with default values in responses. Previously, fields with default values like 0 or an empty string were omitted from the response.

Old behavior

{
   "name": "/networks/123/exampleResource/1"
}

New behavior

{
   "name": "/networks/123/exampleResource/1",
   "stringField": "",
   "intField": 0
}
Feature

Added ProgrammaticBuyer resource.

Feature

Added DeviceCategory resource.

Feature

Added BandwidthGroup resource.

Feature

Added support for Targeting on Private Auction deals.

Feature

Added GeoTarget resource.

Feature

May 23, 2025

Announcement

On or after June 23, 2025 the canonical resource name for CustomTargetingValue will change formats from networks/{networkCode}/customTargetingKeys/{customTargetingKeyId}/customTargetingValues/{customTargetingValueId} to networks/{networkCode}/customTargetingValues/{customTargetingValueId}.

March 11, 2025

Feature

Added support for Private Auctions.

Feature

Added support for Ad Breaks.

Fixed

Corrected resource name patterns and grammar in documentation.

Breaking

Refactored type paths for Companies and Reports. This change is wire compatible, but import paths will change for Python client library versions >0.2.4. Other client libraries are not affected.

September 24, 2024

Announcement

Open Beta: The Ad Manager API is now available to all users.

Feature

Request ID is set in the HTTP header X-Goog-Correlation-Id for all responses and in the error body for API errors. This ID can be shared with support to assist with troubleshooting.

Feature

Added support for Interactive Reporting

Breaking

Temporarily removed Closed Beta services that had data discrepancies with the SOAP API:

  • LineItem
  • Creative
  • Contact
  • Label
  • Team

These will be added back when the discrepancies are resolved.

June 18, 2024

Breaking

Removed support for ReportService methods. These will be replaced by methods for running Interactive reports.

Breaking

All DateTime fields have been changed to use RFC3339 timestamp strings.

Feature

Added support for publisher provided signals resources including entitySignalsMappings and taxonomyCategories.

Feature

Added adUnitSizes resource to list the ad unit sizes available in a network.