Last month we reached out to Microsoft Advertising adCenter users to inform that we are deprecating keyword level negative keywords. Starting today, the campaign and ad group level negative keywords will continue to impact delivery in adCenter and any existing keyword level negative keywords will be ignored. What do these changes mean for adCenter Web users? In the adCenter Web UI,

I am writing to give some additional details on our adCenter Sandbox environment upgrade. The last sandbox feature updates were completed in February. We continue to deploy patches and system upgrades as appropriate. As we release new components to the production environment, such changes are not yet being applied to the sandbox. Thus, the new API v8 features and some recent changes to v7 are not currently supported in sandbox. For example,

I am writing to give some additional details on our adCenter Sandbox environment upgrade. The last sandbox feature updates were completed in February. We continue to deploy patches and system upgrades as appropriate. As we release new components to the production environment, such changes are not yet being applied to the sandbox. Thus, the new API v8 features and some recent changes to v7 are not currently supported in sandbox. For example,

When updating data objects via the Microsoft Advertising adCenter API, null values are typically ignored by the Web service. For example, during a call to UpdateKeywords you may pass a null value or simply not specify the PhraseMatchBid element, and any previously designated bids on phrase match for the keyword will remain untouched. Targeting proves to be an exception to the standard behavior. In order to retain any existing target types )e.g.