Tuesday, September 15, 2009

3 Reasons Why Your AdCenter Campaign Could Be Paused

Microsoft mutual whatever info, aiming  to "demystify" downtime in adCenter campaigns. adCenter advertisers haw sometimes encounter that their campaigns are paused, when they analyse their accounts. Microsoft obloquy threesome reasons you strength wager this.

The prototypal possibility is that you've reached your regular budget limit. When a individual sets their monthly budget, they crapper also ordered a regular budget limit. If a crusade spends this turn before the modify of some presented day, it could termination in the "Budget Paused" message, and ad won't be served again until the incoming day.

Budget Paused in adCenter

Another possibility is that the crusade budget is separated up crossways the month. "With a $3,000 monthly budget, adCenter would allot roughly $100 per period to a crusade streaming in a 30-day month," explains >Microsoft's Tina Kelleher. "When that $100 has been spent on some presented day, the crusade position changes to Budget Paused until the incoming day."

Budget Paused in adCenter

The another possibility is that the statement has been ordered up to pay the budget until it's depleted. This effectuation that depending on the popularity of your keywords and the bids you hit ordered for them, this could verify some turn of time. Once that money is spent, the budget is paused.

So, the moralistic of the news is: undergo how your budget is ordered up, and guardian it. You crapper modify it if requirement be, but if you don't ready an receptor on it, you haw be symptom instance with a paused crusade that you'd kinda be outlay actually having your ads shown.


Microsoft Answers Common adCenter API Questions

Microsoft says it has had a aggregation of questions lately most admittance to adCenter API tokens, and the consort has addressed these issues on the adCenter API blog. The API information is ease in the "pilot" phase, so API tokens are not acquirable to everybody.

"Each letter is reviewed for destined criteria," explains Microsoft's Chris Norred. "Users who hit a road achievement of monthly expenditures with adCenter are provided admittance to the pilot. Other criteria are also considered."

Chris Norred"We obtain individual requests from newborn businesses or developers who physique tools or services using the adCenter API and hit goals to have more spend," Norred continues. "Currently, however, hold for the adCenter API in the airman form cannot help every these possibleness customers."

The API lets users create apps that can:

- Create and control adCenter campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Obtain the position on ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Pause and uphold ad groups.

- Generate keyword estimates.

- Generate reports most crusade performance.

- Perform ad assemble targeting.

Microsoft is thinking to modify adCenter API access, as substantially as admittance to more APIs attendant to Microsoft business services. Currently admittance to the API is restricted to the highest-spending customers, and tokens aren't acquirable for acquire or finished another channels, but in the future, admittance module be unsealed up for users who foregather "a peak criteria."

Microsoft does not calculate for tokens, and the cost of ingest veto their reselling. The consort says it module ready fascinated parties updates via the blog.

 


Monday, September 14, 2009

Microsoft Answers Common adCenter API Questions

Microsoft says it has had a aggregation of questions lately most admittance to adCenter API tokens, and the consort has addressed these issues on the adCenter API blog. The API information is ease in the "pilot" phase, so API tokens are not acquirable to everybody.

"Each letter is reviewed for destined criteria," explains Microsoft's Chris Norred. "Users who hit a road achievement of monthly expenditures with adCenter are provided admittance to the pilot. Other criteria are also considered."

Chris Norred"We obtain individual requests from newborn businesses or developers who physique tools or services using the adCenter API and hit goals to have more spend," Norred continues. "Currently, however, hold for the adCenter API in the airman form cannot help every these possibleness customers."

The API lets users create apps that can:

- Create and control adCenter campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Obtain the position on ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Pause and uphold ad groups.

- Generate keyword estimates.

- Generate reports most crusade performance.

- Perform ad assemble targeting.

Microsoft is thinking to modify adCenter API access, as substantially as admittance to more APIs attendant to Microsoft business services. Currently admittance to the API is restricted to the highest-spending customers, and tokens aren't acquirable for acquire or finished another channels, but in the future, admittance module be unsealed up for users who foregather "a peak criteria."

Microsoft does not calculate for tokens, and the cost of ingest veto their reselling. The consort says it module ready fascinated parties updates via the blog.