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Retrieving Ads for a Specific Advertiser

Ads created through Criteo’s API will be returned for the designated advertiser ID. Only ads created through API and Commerce Growth are returned.  The API will return an array of the IDs, name, description (if specified), creative ID, ad set ID, start date and end date (if specified) for the specified advertiser ID. Please note that the advertiser ID is required in the request URL. The offset and limit are optionals. offset
0 based index of the first ad to return in the response. The default is 0. limit
The number of ads to be returned. The default is 50.
Example Response Body
{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "15",
            "type": "Ad",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "My first ad",
                "description": "Description of my first ad",
                "creativeId": "18",
                "adSetId": "345",
                "startDate": "2021-09-08T08:47:30.000Z",
                "endDate": "2021-10-08T08:47:30.000Z"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "16",
            "type": "Ad",
            "attributes": {
                "name": "My second ad",
                "description": "",
                "creativeId": "19",
                "adSetId": "346",
                "startDate": "2021-04-29T11:05:00.000Z",
                "endDate": null
            }
        }
    ],
    "warnings": [],
    "errors": []
}

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Retrieving a Specific Ad

Ad created through Criteo’s API will be returned for the designated ad ID.  The API will return an array of the ID, name, description (if specified), creative ID, ad set ID, start date and end date (if specified) for the specified ad ID. Please note that the ad ID is required in the request URL.
JSON
{
    "data": {
        "id": "15",
        "type": "Ad",
        "attributes": {
          "name": "My first ad",
          "description": "Description of my first ad",
          "creativeId": "18",
          "adSetId": "345",
          "startDate": "2021-09-08T08:47:30.000Z",
          "endDate": "2021-10-08T08:47:30.000Z"
        }
    },
    "warnings": [],
    "errors": []
}

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Creating A New Ad

A new ad can be created for a specific advertiser and from an existing creative by making a POST call to the ads endpoint. The request body should specify the name, description (optional), creative id, adset id, start date and end date (optional) of the new ad. 
{
  "data": {
    "type": "AdWriteRequest",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "My new ad",
      "description": "Description of my new ad",
      "creativeId": "20",
      "adSetId": "347",
      "startDate": "2021-09-08T08:47:30.000Z",
      "endDate": "2021-10-08T08:47:30.000Z"
    }
  }
}
The API will return an array of the ID, name, description (if specified), creative id, adset id, start date and end date (if specified) of the new ad. Please note that the advertiser ID is required in the request URL.
Ad id null at creationAd Id will be set as null in the response. The ad id will be provided after ad deployment and can be retrieved using the “Get Existing Ads” endpoints.
Example Response Body
{
    "data": {
        "id": null,
        "type": "Ad",
        "attributes": {
          "name": "My new ad",
          "description": "Description of my new ad",
          "creativeId": "20",
          "adSetId": "347",
          "startDate": "2021-09-08T08:47:30.000Z",
          "endDate": "2021-10-08T08:47:30.000Z"
        }
    },
    "warnings": [],
    "errors": []
}

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Deleting an ad

An ad can be deleted by specifying the ad ID in the URL path of a DELETE call to the ads’ endpoint. The API will return an array with the ad ID that was deleted.
Example Response Body
{
    "errors": [],
    "warnings": []
}

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Validation Errors

user-request-forbidden-advertiser
The user doesn’t have the permission to access the specified advertiser. user-request-forbidden-creative
The user doesn’t have the permission to access the specified creative. user-request-forbidden-ad
The user doesn’t have the permission to access the specified ad. invalid-action-with-managed-creative
The action cannot be performed on a managed service creative.  invalid-action-with-managed-ad
The action cannot be performed on a managed service ad. invalid-creative-action-with-status
The action cannot be performed due to the status of the creative. invalid-image
One of the images provided is invalid. Please check the image requirements here invalid-redirection-url-image
The redirection URL specified doesn’t match the advertiser domain. invalid-html-tag
One of the HTML tags is not supported. Please check the list of supported ad servers here invalid-creative-request
Invalid request on the Creative endpoint. invalid-ad-request
Invalid request on the Ad endpoint.