BidStrategy Data Object - Campaign Management

A portfolio bid strategy is an automated bidding feature that manages bidding across multiple campaigns that are all working toward the same goal.

Note

You can set individual campaign level bid strategies using the AddCampaigns and UpdateCampaigns operations.

We automatically adjust your bids to balance under- and over-performing campaigns that share the same strategy, whether to maximize conversions, clicks, target impression share, or other performance goals. Portfolio bid strategies could be a great option for advertisers who want to make sure their entire budgets are spent efficiently.

All you have to do is choose a bid strategy type and include campaigns with complementary budgets in the portfolio. Microsoft Advertising will adjust your bids based on the performance of the entire portfolio. If your portfolio includes any campaigns with a shared budget, then you should include all of the campaigns that share the same budget.

You can have up to 11,000 portfolio bid strategies in an account, and each portfolio can include 10,000 campaigns.

Portfolio bid strategies work best with one goal in mind, using complementary campaign and bid strategy types. You cannot change a portfolio's bid strategy type. If you want a campaign in the portfolio to use a different bid strategy you can move it to another portfolio. Once you choose a campaign type, the portfolio can only include campaigns of that type.

Bid strategy type	Campaign types supported
Maximize clicks	Search, Shopping
Maximize conversions	Search
Target CPA	Performance Max, Search
Target impression share	Search
Target ROAS	Performance Max, Search, Shopping

Syntax

<xs:complexType name="BidStrategy" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="AssociatedCampaignType" nillable="true" type="tns:CampaignType" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="AssociationCount" nillable="true" type="xs:int" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="BiddingScheme" nillable="true" type="tns:BiddingScheme" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Id" nillable="true" type="xs:long" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Name" nillable="true" type="xs:string" />
  </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

Elements

The BidStrategy object has the following elements: AssociatedCampaignType, AssociationCount, BiddingScheme, Id, Name.

Element	Description	Data Type
AssociatedCampaignType	The type of ad campaign that can be included the portfolio bid strategy. The supported campaign types are "Search" and "Shopping" (except smart shopping campaigns). Once you choose a campaign type, the portfolio can only include campaigns of that type. Add: Optional. The default campaign type is Search. Update: Read-only	CampaignType
AssociationCount	The number of Campaign objects that currently share this bid strategy. Add: Read-only Update: Read-only	int
BiddingScheme	The portfolio bid strategy type and settings. If the AssociatedCampaignType is "Search", the supported bid strategies are MaxClicksBiddingScheme, MaxConversionsBiddingScheme TargetCpaBiddingScheme, TargetImpressionShareBiddingScheme, and TargetRoasBiddingScheme. If the AssociatedCampaignType is "Shopping", the supported bid strategies are MaxClicksBiddingScheme and TargetRoasBiddingScheme. Once you choose a bid strategy type it cannot be updated. Add: Required Update: Optional. You can update properties of a bidding scheme, but you cannot change the type.	BiddingScheme
Id	The unique Microsoft Advertising identifier of the bid strategy. Add: Read-only Update: Required	long
Name	The name of the bid strategy. The name must be unique among all bid strategies within the account. The name can contain a maximum of 255 characters. The service performs a case-insensitive comparison when it compares the name to existing bid strategy names. Add: Required Update: Optional	string

Requirements

Service: CampaignManagementService.svc v13
Namespace: https://bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13

Used By

AddBidStrategies
GetBidStrategiesByIds
UpdateBidStrategies