Bulk update items - e.g. pause/resume items - across multiple campaigns.

You can also use a network account to bulk update items across the network.

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Unified endpoint
The bulk update endpoint can be used to pause/resume regular both items (aka static ads) and motion ads.

Example

POST /backstage/api/1.0/demo-advertiser/items/bulk

{
    "items_to_update": [
        309,
        801,
        573
    ],
    "baseline_item": {
        "is_active": true
    }
}

{
    "results": [{
            "id": "309",
            "campaign_id": "33",
            "type": "ITEM",
            "url": "https://www.example.com/news/demo_article_9.html",
            "thumbnail_url": "http://cdn.example.com/demo_image_9.jpg",
            "title": "Demo Article 9",
            "description": null,
            "approval_state": "APPROVED",
            "is_active": false,
            "status": "RUNNING",
            "policy_review": {
                "reject_reason": null,
                "status_reason": null
            },
            "cta": null,
            "creative_focus": {
                "type": "AUTOMATIC",
                "coordinates": null
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "801",
            "campaign_id": "270",
            "type": "ITEM",
            "url": "https://www.example.com/news/demo_article_1.html",
            "thumbnail_url": "http://cdn.example.com/demo_image_1.jpg",
            "title": "Demo Article 1",
            "description": null,
            "approval_state": "APPROVED",
            "is_active": false,
            "status": "RUNNING",
            "policy_review": {
                "reject_reason": null,
                "status_reason": null
            },
            "cta": null,
            "creative_focus": {
                "type": "AUTOMATIC",
                "coordinates": null
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "573",
            "campaign_id": "163",
            "type": "ITEM",
            "url": "https://www.example.com/news/demo_article_3.html",
            "thumbnail_url": "http://cdn.example.com/demo_image_3.jpg",
            "title": "Demo Article 3",
            "description": null,
            "approval_state": "APPROVED",
            "is_active": false,
            "status": "RUNNING",
            "policy_review": {
                "reject_reason": null,
                "status_reason": null
            },
            "cta": null,
            "creative_focus": {
                "type": "AUTOMATIC",
                "coordinates": null
            }
        },
    ],
    "metadata": {
        ...
    }
}

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Request Object

items_to_update: a list of Item IDs to update (each ID passed as a Number). These items can belong to different campaigns under your account.

baseline_item: an object containing the fields to set.

Currently, is_active is the only supported field.

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Supported Fields
Use the bulk endpoint to update the following fields:

is_active

~~creative_focus~~

This field has been deprecated.

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Guidelines

To bulk update items, use the POST verb.

Limit each request to a maximum of 200 items.

By default, if the update operation fails for 1 item, then no items will be updated. To override this behavior, pass ?is_atomic=false.

The bulk update operation ican be used to pause/resume regular both items (aka static ads) and motion ads.

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The network account
You can use a network account to update items across the network: POST backstage/api/1.0/{network-account}/items/bulk
For more information about the network account see: Network Accounts.

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See also

Bulk create items across campaigns (above).

Bulk update campaigns.