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Ad Group DayTime Criterion Record - Bulk

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Defines an ad group day and time criterion that can be uploaded and downloaded in a bulk file.

As your campaign progresses, you may find that your click-through rate and conversion rate are highest during certain times, for example, weeknights. This might be a perfect opportunity to use bid adjustments to improve your chances of displaying your ad Monday through Friday from 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.. When targeting by time, you are targeting the searcher's local time zone. For example, if you increase your bid by 10% for 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., that bid adjustment will be effective from 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. Eastern Time for searchers in New York, then be effective 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. Pacific Time for searchers in Seattle. Now you are showing your ads when your potential customers are online!

Each day and time criterion defines the day, from hour, from minute, to hour, and to minute requirements for the accompanying criterion bid adjustment.

The maximum number of day and time criterions that you can specify per campaign or ad group is 49. You may not specify any overlapping day and time ranges, for example Monday from 3:00AM to 5:00AM and Monday 4:00AM to 6:00AM are not allowed for the same campaign or ad group. Also for a given campaign or ad group, the maximum number of day and time criterions per day that you can specify is seven. For example you can specify up to 7 day and time criterions where the Day is set to Monday.

If ad group level day and time criterions are specified, the campaign level day and time criterions are ignored for that ad group. In other words the ad group day and time criterions override the campaign day and time criterions, and are not applied as a union.

Tip

For an overview of how to use target criterions, see Show Ads to Your Target Audience.

You can download all Ad Group DayTime Criterion records in the account by including the DownloadEntity value of AdGroupTargetCriterions in the DownloadCampaignsByAccountIds or DownloadCampaignsByCampaignIds service request. Additionally the download request must include the EntityData scope. For more details about the Bulk service including best practices, see Bulk Download and Upload.

The following Bulk CSV example would add a new ad group day and time criterion if a valid Parent Id value is provided.

Type,Status,Id,Parent Id,Sub Type,Campaign,Ad Group,Client Id,Modified Time,Target,Bid Adjustment,Name,OS Names,Radius,Unit,From Hour,From Minute,To Hour,To Minute,Latitude,Longitude
Format Version,,,,,,,,,,,6.0,,,,,,,,,
Ad Group DayTime Criterion,Active,,-1111,,,,ClientIdGoesHere,,Monday,20,,,,,0,0,4,0,,

If you are using the Bing Ads SDKs for .NET, Java, or Python, you can save time using the BulkServiceManager to upload and download the BulkAdGroupDayTimeCriterion object, instead of calling the service operations directly and writing custom code to parse each field in the bulk file.

var uploadEntities = new List<BulkEntity>();

// Map properties in the Bulk file to the BulkAdGroupDayTimeCriterion
var bulkAdGroupDayTimeCriterion = new BulkAdGroupDayTimeCriterion
{
    // 'Ad Group' column header in the Bulk file is read-only
    AdGroupName = null,
                    
    // 'Campaign' column header in the Bulk file is read-only
    CampaignName = null,

    // 'Client Id' column header in the Bulk file
    ClientId = "ClientIdGoesHere",

    // Map properties in the Bulk file to the 
    // BiddableAdGroupCriterion object of the Campaign Management service.

    BiddableAdGroupCriterion = new BiddableAdGroupCriterion
    {
        // 'Parent Id' column header in the Bulk file
        AdGroupId = adGroupIdKey,
                        
        Criterion = new DayTimeCriterion
        {
            // 'Target' column header in the Bulk file
            Day = Day.Monday,

            // 'From Hour' column header in the Bulk file
            FromHour = 0,

            // 'To Hour' column header in the Bulk file
            ToHour = 4,

            // 'From Minute' column header in the Bulk file
            FromMinute = Minute.Zero,

            // 'To Minute' column header in the Bulk file
            ToMinute = Minute.Zero
        },

        CriterionBid = new BidMultiplier
        {
            // 'Bid Adjustment' column header in the Bulk file
            Multiplier = 20,
        },

        // 'Id' column header in the Bulk file
        Id = null,

        // 'Status' column header in the Bulk file
        Status = AdGroupCriterionStatus.Active,
    }
};

uploadEntities.Add(bulkAdGroupDayTimeCriterion);

var entityUploadParameters = new EntityUploadParameters
{
    Entities = uploadEntities,
    ResponseMode = ResponseMode.ErrorsAndResults,
    ResultFileDirectory = FileDirectory,
    ResultFileName = DownloadFileName,
    OverwriteResultFile = true,
};

var uploadResultEntities = (await BulkServiceManager.UploadEntitiesAsync(entityUploadParameters)).ToList();

For an Ad Group DayTime Criterion record, the following attribute fields are available in the Bulk File Schema.

Ad Group

The name of the ad group where this criterion is applied or removed.

Add: Read-only
Update: Read-only
Delete: Read-only

Bid Adjustment

The percentage amount that you want to adjust the bid for the corresponding Target, From Hour, From Minute, To Hour, and To Minute.

Supported values are negative ninety (-90) through positive nine hundred (900).

Add: Optional. The bid adjustment will be set to the default of 0 if not included.
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only

Campaign

The name of the campaign that contains the ad group where this criterion is applied or removed.

Add: Read-only
Update: Read-only
Delete: Read-only

Client Id

Used to associate records in the bulk upload file with records in the results file. The value of this field is not used or stored by the server; it is simply copied from the uploaded record to the corresponding result record. It may be any valid string to up 100 in length.

Add: Optional
Update: Optional
Delete: Optional

From Hour

The starting hour to target.

Supported values range from 0 to 23.

Add: Required
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only

From Minute

The starting minute to target.

Supported values are 0, 15, 30, and 45.

Add: Required
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only

Id

The Microsoft Advertising unique identifier of the criterion.

Add: Read-only
Update: Read-only and Required
Delete: Read-only and Required

Modified Time

The date and time that the entity was last updated. The value is in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Note

The date and time value reflects the date and time at the server, not the client. For information about the format of the date and time, see the dateTime entry in Primitive XML Data Types.

Add: Read-only
Update: Read-only
Delete: Read-only

Parent Id

The identifier of the ad group where this criterion is applied or removed.

This bulk field maps to the Id field of the Ad Group record.

Add: Read-only and Required. You must either specify an existing ad group identifier, or specify a negative identifier that is equal to the Id field of the parent Ad Group record. This is recommended if you are adding new criterions to a new ad group in the same Bulk file. For more information, see Bulk File Schema Reference Keys.
Update: Read-only and Required
Delete: Read-only and Required

Status

Represents the association status between the ad group and the criterion. If the criterion is applied to the ad group, this field's value is Active. To delete the criterion, set the status to Deleted.

Add: Read-only. The status will always be set to Active when you add criterions. If you upload another value e.g., Foo the result file will contain the same value although the criterion is active.
Update: Optional
Delete: Required. The Status must be set to Deleted. To delete a specific day and time criterion bid, you must upload the Status, Id, and Parent Id.

Target

The day that you want to target with the corresponding Bid Adjustment.

Supported values are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Add: Required
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only

To Hour

The ending hour to target.

Supported values range from 0 to 24. If the To Hour is set to 24, the To Minute must be Zero.

Add: Required
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only

To Minute

The ending minute to target.

Supported values are 0, 15, 30, and 45.

Add: Required
Update: Required
Delete: Read-only