By Luis Rijo
Publication Date: 2026-10-18 19:39:00
Google released version 26 of its Ads API on October 14, 2026, adding read access to Search Lift studies, the ability to create Local Services Performance Max campaigns programmatically and a looser EU political advertising declaration for campaigns that target only locations outside the European Union. The release also renames five hotel bid modifier criteria and replaces the account-level enhanced conversions field.
In Short
Google updated the toolkit that software uses to manage Google Ads, and this version adds several new things those tools can read and build. It matters to anyone whose ad tools, reports or agency scripts connect to Google Ads, because some old names were replaced and code using them has to change. Tools can now report on whether ads led people to search more, create the new type of Local Services campaign, and skip an EU political ads question for campaigns aimed only outside Europe.
What Google published
The announcement, signed by Anash P. Oommen of the…
