Please be aware that there will be a period of scheduled maintenance on the adCenter API Sandbox Environment on Monday, May 23 rd from 4pm PST through 7pm PST. During the maintenance window, the servers hosting the sandbox environment will be rebooted and both the sandbox and UI environments will be unavailable. If you have any questions or comments, please visit the API forum . Sign in to adCenter | Need an account?

You asked for simpler budget options in adCenter API, and soon youll have them! Were making changes to the budget options that will make managing your campaign budgets easier than ever. Campaign Budget Options Spring 2011 )Backward Compatibility( Summer 2011 Daily Budget with Monthly Maximum* If you edit your budget or create a new budget, a system-generated monthly maximum will be used.

Microsoft Advertising adCenter is undergoing scheduled maintenance on the Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Sandbox environment from February 9 to February 11. UPDATE 2/16 : Maintenance has been extended through Thursday, February 17th. During this time, you might experience intermittent issues while accessing the Sandbox environment. While the Sandbox environment will not be available, the API Production environment will operate as usual and ads will continue to serve.

Until recently, access to the Microsoft Advertising adCenter Application Programming Interface )API( has been restricted to a small set of invitation-only pilot customers that met stringent criteria. Now, advertisers of all shapes and sizes can request API access . If youre not familiar with managing PPC campaigns via an API, the adCenter API would enable you to programmatically access Microsoft adCenter to manage your accounts, campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.

Hello We want to find out if there is any interest from the adCenter developer community for short instructional videos covering adCenter API topics. Please reply to this post if this is of interest to you, and let us know what specific topics youd like to see covered.

Hello Resellers Just want to let you know that we removed the AddAccount operation from the MSDN documentation. The AddAccount operation is meant for internal use only. Calling AddAccount is not supported. Instead of calling AddAccount to add multiple accounts to a customer, you should call the SignupCustomer operation for each account that you need to add. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause. If AddAccount is something that youd like to use,

Mark your Outlook calendar to attend our webcast where our API experts will not only explain how to upgrade to Version 7, but will take your questions as well. Date: January 20, 2011 Time: 12:00 1:00 P.M. PST Join the webcast now To attend the live webcast, you must have Microsoft Office Live Meeting installed on your computer. Before the webcast, check your system to ensure that Live Meeting is ready to use.

Microsoft adCenter API Production environment has been updated with the new features and functionalities rolled out in the adCenter Fall 2010 Upgrade . Updates to the Sandbox testing environment are expected to be available soon. Please note below features are available on API Version 7 its a great time to upgrade to version 7 if you havent already!

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 .