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Summary
Campaign priority determines the preferred bid for the same product across
multiple Shopping campaigns in the same country.
Campaign priorities don't affect your search relevance or influence the
likelihood of your product to show on Google Shopping. They give you more
control over which products and bids are most important.
For more detail on using priorities see the Shopping Best Practices guide.
Manual steps
Here are the steps to set campaign priorities through the Google Ads
UI:
- Create a Shopping campaign.
- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
- Click Settings for the campaign you want to edit.
- Select one of the following Campaign priority levels:
- Low (default)
- Medium
- High
- Click Save.
See Use campaign priority for Shopping campaigns for more details.
Automatic steps
Here's how to set campaign priority with the Google Ads API:
- Make sure you've successfully created a campaign and have the campaign
ID.
- Make a
MutateCampaignsRequest
as follows:
- Set the
CampaignOperation
to update
.
- Set the operand to a
Campaign
object as follows:
- Set
id
to the campaign ID.
- Set
campaign_priority
for the ShoppingSetting
to one of the
following:
0
for Low.
1
for Medium.
2
for High.
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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