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Get ad campaign performance data

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Use this method in the Microsoft Store analytics API to get an aggregate summary of promotional ad campaign performance data for your applications during a given date range and other optional filters. This method returns the data in JSON format.

This method returns the same data that is provided by the Ad campaign report in Partner Center. For more information about ad campaigns, see Create an ad campaign for your app.

To create, update, or retrieve details for ad campaigns, you can use the Manage ad campaigns methods in the Microsoft Store promotions API.

Prerequisites

To use this method, you need to first do the following:

  • If you have not done so already, complete all the prerequisites for the Microsoft Store analytics API.
  • Obtain an Azure AD access token to use in the request header for this method. After you obtain an access token, you have 60 minutes to use it before it expires. After the token expires, you can obtain a new one.

Request

Request syntax

Method Request URI
GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/promotion

Request header

Header Type Description
Authorization string Required. The Azure AD access token in the form Bearer <token>.

Request parameters

To retrieve ad campaign performance data for a specific app, use the applicationId parameter. To retrieve ad performance data for all apps that are associated with your developer account, omit the applicationId parameter.

Parameter Type Description Required
applicationId string The Store ID of the app for which you want to retrieve ad campaign performance data. No
startDate date The start date in the date range of ad campaign performance data to retrieve, in the format YYYY/MM/DD. The default is the current date minus 30 days. No
endDate date The end date in the date range of ad campaign performance data to retrieve, in the format YYYY/MM/DD. The default is the current date minus one day. No
top int The number of rows of data to return in the request. The maximum value and the default value if not specified is 10000. If there are more rows in the query, the response body includes a next link that you can use to request the next page of data. No
skip int The number of rows to skip in the query. Use this parameter to page through large data sets. For example, top=10000 and skip=0 retrieves the first 10000 rows of data, top=10000 and skip=10000 retrieves the next 10000 rows of data, and so on. No
filter string One or more statements that filter the rows in the response. The only supported filter is campaignId. Each statement can use the eq or ne operators, and statements can be combined using and or or. Here is an example filter parameter: filter=campaignId eq '100023'. No
aggregationLevel string Specifies the time range for which to retrieve aggregate data. Can be one of the following strings: day, week, or month. If unspecified, the default is day. No
orderby string

A statement that orders the result data values for the ad campaign performance data. The syntax is orderby=field [order],field [order],.... The field parameter can be one of the following strings:

  • date
  • campaignId

The order parameter is optional, and can be asc or desc to specify ascending or descending order for each field. The default is asc.

Here is an example orderby string: orderby=date,campaignId

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groupby string

A statement that applies data aggregation only to the specified fields. You can specify the following fields:

  • campaignId
  • applicationId
  • date
  • currencyCode

The groupby parameter can be used with the aggregationLevel parameter. For example: &groupby=applicationId&aggregationLevel=week

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Request example

The following example demonstrates several requests for getting ad campaign performance data.

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/promotion?aggregationLevel=week&groupby=applicationId,campaignId,date  HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/promotion?applicationId=9NBLGGH0XK8Z&startDate=2015/1/20&endDate=2016/8/31&skip=0&filter=campaignId eq '31007388' HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

Response

Response body

Value Type Description
Value array An array of objects that contain aggregate ad campaign performance data. For more information about the data in each object, see the campaign performance object section below.
@nextLink string If there are additional pages of data, this string contains a URI that you can use to request the next page of data. For example, this value is returned if the top parameter of the request is set to 5 but there are more than 5 items of data for the query.
TotalCount int The total number of rows in the data result for the query.

Campaign performance object

Elements in the Value array contain the following values.

Value Type Description
date string The first date in the date range for the ad campaign performance data. If the request specified a single day, this value is that date. If the request specified a week, month, or other date range, this value is the first date in that date range.
applicationId string The Store ID of the app for which you are retrieving ad campaign performance data.
campaignId string The ID of the ad campaign.
lineId string The ID of the ad campaign delivery line that generated this performance data.
currencyCode string The currency code of the campaign budget.
spend string The budget amount that has been spent for the ad campaign.
impressions long The number of ad impressions for the campaign.
installs long The number of app installs related to the campaign.
clicks long The number of ad clicks for the campaign.
iapInstalls long The number of add-on (also called in-app purchase or IAP) installs related to the campaign.
activeUsers long The number of users who have clicked an ad that is part of the campaign and returned to the app.

Response example

The following example demonstrates an example JSON response body for this request.

{
  "Value": [
    {
      "date": "2015-04-12",
      "applicationId": "9WZDNCRFJ31Q",
      "campaignId": "4568",
      "lineId": "0001",
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "spend": 700.6,
      "impressions": 200,
      "installs": 30,
      "clicks": 8,
      "iapInstalls": 0,
      "activeUsers": 0
    },
    {
      "date": "2015-05-12",
      "applicationId": "9WZDNCRFJ31Q",
      "campaignId": "1234",
      "lineId": "0002",
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "spend": 325.3,
      "impressions": 20,
      "installs": 2,
      "clicks": 5,
      "iapInstalls": 0,
      "activeUsers": 0
    }
  ],
  "@nextLink": "promotion?applicationId=9NBLGGGZ5QDR&aggregationLevel=day&startDate=2015/1/20&endDate=2016/8/31&top=2&skip=2",
  "TotalCount": 1917
}