POST /ad_campaign/{campaign_id}/ad_group

Note: This method is only available for select partners who have been approved for the eBay Promoted Listings Advanced (PLA) program. For information about how to request access to this program, refer to Promoted Listings Advanced Access Requests in the Promoted Listings Playbook. To determine if a seller qualifies for PLA, use the getAdvertisingEligibility method in Account API.
This method adds an ad group to an existing PLA campaign that uses the Cost Per Click (CPC) funding model.

To create an ad group for a campaign, specify the defaultBid for the ad group in the payload of the request. Then specify the campaign to which the ad group should be associated using the campaign_id path parameter.

Each campaign can have one or more associated ad groups.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
campaign_id String Yes

A unique eBay-assigned ID for an ad campaign that is generated when a campaign is created.

Note: You can retrieve the campaign IDs for a specified seller using the getCampaigns method.

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
defaultBid Object No

A complex type that describes the value of a monetary amount as represented by a global currency.

defaultBid.value String No

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

defaultBid.currency String No

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing. For implementation help, refer to eBay API documentation

name String No

The seller-defined name of the ad group.

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