Campaign Budget Assignment

You can assign a budget to a campaign, dissociate a budget from a campaign, or retrieve the campaigns that are assigned to a specific budget.

Assign a budget to a campaign

After you have created a CampaignBudget with CampaignBudgetService or identified an existing one, you must use its resource_name field value in a subsequent call to CampaignService. If the budget creation operation succeeds, but the campaign assignment fails, you will have an orphaned budget (a budget that is not associated with any campaign). We recommend you either reuse or remove such budgets.

New campaign

For a new campaign, in the CampaignOperation.create, set the campaign_budget field of the Campaign object to a budget resource name, as demonstrated in the code example below.

Java

// Creates the campaign.
Campaign campaign =
    Campaign.newBuilder()
        .setName("Interplanetary Cruise #" + getPrintableDateTime())
        .setAdvertisingChannelType(AdvertisingChannelType.SEARCH)
        // Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to prevent
        // the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
        // targeting and the ads are ready to serve
        .setStatus(CampaignStatus.PAUSED)
        // Sets the bidding strategy and budget.
        .setManualCpc(ManualCpc.newBuilder().build())
        .setCampaignBudget(budgetResourceName)
        // Adds the networkSettings configured above.
        .setNetworkSettings(networkSettings)
        // Optional: Sets the start & end dates.
        .setStartDate(new DateTime().plusDays(1).toString("yyyyMMdd"))
        .setEndDate(new DateTime().plusDays(30).toString("yyyyMMdd"))
        .build();
AddCampaigns.java
      

C#

// Create the campaign.
Campaign campaign = new Campaign()
{
    Name = "Interplanetary Cruise #" + ExampleUtilities.GetRandomString(),
    AdvertisingChannelType = AdvertisingChannelType.Search,

    // Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to prevent
    // the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
    // targeting and the ads are ready to serve
    Status = CampaignStatus.Paused,

    // Set the bidding strategy and budget.
    ManualCpc = new ManualCpc(),
    CampaignBudget = budget,

    // Set the campaign network options.
    NetworkSettings = new NetworkSettings
    {
        TargetGoogleSearch = true,
        TargetSearchNetwork = true,
        // Enable Display Expansion on Search campaigns. See
        // https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7193800 to learn more.
        TargetContentNetwork = true,
        TargetPartnerSearchNetwork = false
    },

    // Optional: Set the start date.
    StartDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1).ToString("yyyyMMdd"),

    // Optional: Set the end date.
    EndDate = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1).ToString("yyyyMMdd"),
};
AddCampaigns.cs
      

PHP

$campaign = new Campaign([
    'name' => 'Interplanetary Cruise #' . Helper::getPrintableDatetime(),
    'advertising_channel_type' => AdvertisingChannelType::SEARCH,
    // Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to prevent
    // the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
    // targeting and the ads are ready to serve.
    'status' => CampaignStatus::PAUSED,
    // Sets the bidding strategy and budget.
    'manual_cpc' => new ManualCpc(),
    'campaign_budget' => $budgetResourceName,
    // Adds the network settings configured above.
    'network_settings' => $networkSettings,
    // Optional: Sets the start and end dates.
    'start_date' => date('Ymd', strtotime('+1 day')),
    'end_date' => date('Ymd', strtotime('+1 month'))
]);
AddCampaigns.php
      

Python

# Create campaign.
campaign_operation = client.get_type("CampaignOperation")
campaign = campaign_operation.create
campaign.name = f"Interplanetary Cruise {uuid.uuid4()}"
campaign.advertising_channel_type = (
    client.enums.AdvertisingChannelTypeEnum.SEARCH
)

# Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to prevent
# the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
# targeting and the ads are ready to serve.
campaign.status = client.enums.CampaignStatusEnum.PAUSED

# Set the bidding strategy and budget.
campaign.manual_cpc.enhanced_cpc_enabled = True
campaign.campaign_budget = campaign_budget_response.results[0].resource_name

# Set the campaign network options.
campaign.network_settings.target_google_search = True
campaign.network_settings.target_search_network = True
campaign.network_settings.target_partner_search_network = False
# Enable Display Expansion on Search campaigns. For more details see:
# https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7193800
campaign.network_settings.target_content_network = True
add_campaigns.py
      

Ruby

# Create campaign.
campaign = client.resource.campaign do |c|
  c.name = "Interplanetary Cruise #{(Time.new.to_f * 1000).to_i}"
  c.advertising_channel_type = :SEARCH

  # Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to prevent
  # the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
  # targeting and the ads are ready to serve.
  c.status = :PAUSED

  # Set the bidding strategy and budget.
  c.manual_cpc = client.resource.manual_cpc
  c.campaign_budget = return_budget.results.first.resource_name

  # Set the campaign network options.
  c.network_settings = client.resource.network_settings do |ns|
    ns.target_google_search = true
    ns.target_search_network = true
    # Enable Display Expansion on Search campaigns. See
    # https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7193800 to learn more.
    ns.target_content_network = true
    ns.target_partner_search_network = false
  end

  # Optional: Set the start date.
  c.start_date = DateTime.parse((Date.today + 1).to_s).strftime('%Y%m%d')

  # Optional: Set the end date.
  c.end_date = DateTime.parse((Date.today.next_year).to_s).strftime('%Y%m%d')
end
add_campaigns.rb
      

Perl

# Create a campaign.
my $campaign = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Resources::Campaign->new({
    name                   => "Interplanetary Cruise #" . uniqid(),
    advertisingChannelType => SEARCH,
    # Recommendation: Set the campaign to PAUSED when creating it to stop
    # the ads from immediately serving. Set to ENABLED once you've added
    # targeting and the ads are ready to serve.
    status => PAUSED,
    # Set the bidding strategy and budget.
    manualCpc => Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Common::ManualCpc->new(
      {enhancedCpcEnabled => "true"}
    ),
    campaignBudget => $campaign_budgets_response->{results}[0]{resourceName},
    # Set the campaign network options.
    networkSettings =>
      Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V18::Resources::NetworkSettings->new({
        targetGoogleSearch  => "true",
        targetSearchNetwork => "true",
        # Enable Display Expansion on Search campaigns. See
        # https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7193800 to learn more.
        targetContentNetwork       => "true",
        targetPartnerSearchNetwork => "false"
      }
      ),
    # Optional: Set the start date. The campaign starts tomorrow.
    startDate => strftime("%Y%m%d", localtime(time + 60 * 60 * 24)),
    # Optional: Set the end date. The campaign runs for 30 days.
    endDate => strftime("%Y%m%d", localtime(time + 60 * 60 * 24 * 30)),
  });
add_campaigns.pl
      

Existing campaign

To replace the budget of an existing campaign, in a CampaignOperation.update, set the campaign_budget field of the Campaign object to the resource name of an existing budget (along with any other campaign fields that you might want to set). Note that this will replace the existing budget assigned to the campaign with the one specified by the campaign_budget field, since a campaign can be associated with only one budget at a time.

Warning: The best practice is to update your existing budget. All the spend you had on an existing campaign will be ignored if you create a new campaign budget on an existing campaign. Also, modifying a daily budget within 30 days can lead to overdelivery. For example, say you have a budget set for $10. You spend that $10. Then, you create a new budget for $11 on an existing campaign. That means you could spend around $21. If you follow the best practice and update the budget to $11 on your existing campaign, then your spend would be about $11.

Dissociate a budget from a campaign

A campaign must always be associated with a budget. You can remove a budget from a campaign by changing the budget associated with the campaign, thereby replacing it with another budget. To identify campaigns using a particular budget, continue to the next section.

Retrieve campaigns assigned to a budget

Obtaining the list of campaigns that use the same budget can be helpful in balancing budget utilization. The following GAQL query will return all campaigns for the specified budget ID:

SELECT campaign.id
FROM campaign
WHERE campaign_budget.id = campaign_budget_id