Late last night our engineers were able to implement the upgrades that were originally scheduled for this Saturday's maintenance period . Therefore, we have canceled this weekend's system maintenance. All systems will remain operational and available. - Jon Diorio,

We will be performing unscheduled AdWords maintenance from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT on Saturday, August 25, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. -Jon Diorio,

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 as always, we encourage all developers to use list methods whenever possible )e.g. addCampaignList (.

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, V9 will now be sunset on September 10. - Jon Diorio,

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, 2007 We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20.

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,

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 as soon as a fix is in place. - Jon Diorio,

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.

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 users looking for products and services locally, like pizza in London. They appear as enhanced text ads and map markers on Google Maps . E.g.

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 clientEmail header block.

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,

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 a result of enabling this option, try breaking subsequent reports down into smaller queries/reports.