Account Groups

This article describes services you can use to view, create, and update account groups.

Overview

Use account groups to categorize advertisers by regions, brands, business units, or another category that makes sense to your organization.

Account groups save you time in the following ways:

• Filtering information for groups of advertisers.

• Targeting exchanges and deals for groups of advertisers.

• Allow or deny apps and sites for a group.

• Reporting on all the advertisers within a group.

Hierarchy

An Account Group is a seat-level object.

Endpoint

/traffic/accountgroups

Use the following HTTP methods:

• Use the GET method to view an existing account group.

• Use the POST method to create a new account group.

• Use the PUT method to update an existing account group.

Resources

The Account Group object contains the following fields:

Read Account Group

Get data about an account group.

GET /traffic/accountgroups/{id}

Parameters

Sample Request URL

GET https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups/1

{
  "response": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "North America Region",
    "code": "NAR",
    "seatId": 1
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-04-12T04:49:06Z"
}

Read Account Groups

Get a filtered list of account groups belonging to the specified seat.

GET /traffic/accountgroups?query={query}&sort={sort}&dir={dir}

GET https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups?query=Test&sort=code&dir=asc

Sample Response

{
  "response": [
    {
      "id": 2491,
      "name": "TWO_POST_3_PUT_Change2",
      "code": "TestCng",
      "seatId": 2
    },
    {
     "id": 2492,
     "name": "Test_ADGroup2",
     "code": "TestAG2",
     "seatId": 2
    }
  ],
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-04-12T04:49:06Z"
}

Update Account Group

Update an existing account group.

PUT /traffic/accountgroups/{id}

Partial updates are supported; values of supported fields that are not in the payload remain unchanged.

Parameters

The Account Group id is specified in the url path. All other fields are specified in the body of the application/json payload.

Sample Request URL

PUT https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups/16546

Sample Request Body

{
  "name": "MNX_Changed",
  "code": "MNX2_PUT"
}

Sample Response

{
  "response": {
    "id": 16546,
    "name": "MNX_Changed",
    "code": "MNX2_PUT",
    "seatId": 2
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-12-18T19:19:11Z"
}

Create Account Group

Create a new account group.

POST /traffic/accountgroups

Parameters

All fields are specified in the body of the application/json payload.

Sample Request URL

POST https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups

{
  "name": "MNX",
  "code": "MNX2",
  "seatId": 2
}

Sample Response

{
  "response": {
    "id": 16546,
    "name": "MNX",
    "code": "MNX2",
    "seatId": 2
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-12-18T19:11:06Z"
}

Delete Account Group

The DSP Traffic API does not support the deletion of account groups.