Last week, Johann Garcia, adCenter API Product Planner, and Shamit Patel, adCenter API Program Manager, hosted a live webcast to review the top 10 best practices for adCenter API. Watch the recording here: https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=D5MP2H .

The adCenter API Sandbox environment will experience downtime from Monday, July 19 to Tuesday, July 20 to make updates for the adCenter Summer 2010 Upgrade and launch Sandbox in adCenter API Version 7. The adCenter API Sandbox environment will be unavailable, but the adCenter API Production environment will operate as normal, and ads will continue to serve. After this release, API Version 7 will be available in both Production and Sandbox environments.

We recently released the new Microsoft adCenter API Version 7 to the API Production environment. The newest features from the adCenter Summer 2010 Upgrade and several key API improvements are now available to you. adCenter API Version 7 will replace adCenter API Version 6 in the coming months. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the new features and plan to upgrade your WSDLs to Version 7 to avoid service interruptions later this year.

Our reporting service and performance data is delayed today Thursday 6/24 due to the current upgrade in progress. We hope to have the data available by 5 pm PT today. We will post additional information here when available. Apologies for the inconvenience. Jeff Dillon,

Some advertisers, particularly those using Java as their development environment, may experience issues when attempting to download reports via the API, and may receive SSL Handshake errors. We are currently investigating this at highest priority, and will post additional information here when available. Jeff Dillon,

As the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance moves forward, were pleased to welcome developers from the Yahoo! Search Marketing API Program to the adCenter API Community . Yahoo! API customers will be receiving additional details about the transition to the Microsoft adCenter API over the next few months via email. First of all, Yahoo! API customers will receive instructions on how to access the adCenter API Sandbox environment. Then, in the coming months,

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You can view the adCenter API Webcast recording on demand and hear from our program manager Shamit Patel on plans for the upcoming new version of the adCenter API. The Webcast is available for viewing in Windows Media, .wmv format; and in Live Meeting format with a Live Meeting viewer. You'll need to enter a username before viewing. Watch it here: adCenter API Webcast April 28th or https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?

These sessions provide an excellent opportunity for developers and business customers to learn about the API changes and to ask questions of the product team. If you have requests or questions that you would like to see covered in one of these sessions, please post in the comments below or in the adCenter API Forum . If you have not used Live Meeting before, we recommend visiting API Live Meeting before the session begins to complete any required installation steps.

These sessions provide an excellent opportunity for developers and business customers to learn about the API changes and to ask questions of the product team. If you have requests or questions that you would like to see covered in one of these sessions, please post in the comments below or in the adCenter API Forum . If you have not used Live Meeting before, we recommend visiting API Live Meeting before the session begins to complete any required installation steps.

The adCenter Sandbox Environment will be unavailable during this upgrade. The adCenter API Version 6 Production environment will operate as normal, and ads will continue to serve. This upgrade and corresponding downtime only applies to the Sandbox. Thank you for your patience. Jeff Dillon,

The adCenter API v7 upgrade is coming later this spring and we want to make sure you have the information that you need to plan ahead and update your API code to take advantage of some valuable updates. The release date is not official yet and well announce it here on the blog as soon as it is set. Meanwhile, we can give you an idea of some features in the adCenter API v7 update. )Keep in mind, there is a chance the features may change before the final release.

Hello Attached is a guide for those Yahoo! Search Marketing API users who are interested in using the Microsoft adCenter API. This guide instructs you how to develop ad campaigns and request reports in adCenter. More specifically, the guide maps Search Marketing operations to adCenter operations. For those Search Marketing operations that adCenter does not support directly, steps are provided to perform a similar functionality in adCenter, if applicable.

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When an adCenter order expires, the status that is reported to the adCenter API is deleted. The adCenter Web site uses the term expired for the same status. Advertisers sometimes set orders to expire prematurely when using the Web site. If they attempt to correct the status via the Web site, then it may not be reflected via the API if your system has already deleted the order. This difference can cause issues if youve coded tools to delete orders with the deleted status.

The adCenter API Sandbox environment is made available for API developers to test their code in an environment to assure they can access the API. Developers want to see if the API is available, for example, to manage campaigns, manage customers, and get reporting. We make those APIs available via the Sandbox environment, but we also have the Web UI available for the sandbox. None of our competitors provide a Web UI for the sandbox environments when testing their APIs.

If you have a history of high monthly expenditures on adCenter, you can get tokens to access accounts programmatically via the adCenter API. If you want to have access to the adCenter API, then contact your adCenter account representative to discuss the nomination process. In addition to a user name and password, API users need a developer token or code to access their data. adCenter provides 3 kinds of API access to suit the needs of different customers.

We are planning system maintenance on Saturday, April 3, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific time. During this time you will not be able to make campaign updates via the API or the Web. You will still be able to make API reporting calls during this time. During the maintenance window, your ads will deliver as normal. Also, during the maintenance, any scheduled campaign updates may take an additional two to four hours to go into effect.

Resellers are businesses that handle adCenter accounts for hundreds or thousands of clients, usually small businesses. Resellers are also known as "aggregators." If you are developing systems using the API for one of these resellers, there are some best practices that you'll want to keep in mind. You should use the provided code samples in the MSDN adCenter API documentation for guidance. As a rule of thumb,

On March 17th, the Microsoft adCenter Campaign Management API documentation was updated. There were several small changes, but the major changes are: The campaign management C# example code has been updated to use the new exception handling scheme outlined in Scott Whites blog post: Changing the Exception Handling for .NET adCenter API Examples .