GetKeywordDemographics Service Operation - Ad Insight

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07/19/2023

Gets the age and gender of users who have searched for the specified keywords.

Note

The GetKeywordDemographics service operation is deprecated as of August 21, 2023. Learn more.

Request Elements

The GetKeywordDemographicsRequest object defines the body and header elements of the service operation request. The elements must be in the same order as shown in the Request SOAP.

Note

Unless otherwise noted below, all request elements are required.

Request Body Elements

Element	Description	Data Type
Device	An array of devices for which you want to get demographics data. Supported device types include the following: Computers, NonSmartphones, Smartphones, Tablets. The default is Computers. If available the response only includes keyword demographics data for the device types that you specify.	string array
Keywords	An array of keywords for which you want to get demographics data. The data is also broken out by device type. The array can contain a maximum of 1,000 keywords, and each keyword can contain a maximum of 100 characters.	string array
Language	The language in which the keywords are written. For possible values, see Ad Languages.	string
PublisherCountry	The country code of the country/region to use as the source of the demographics data. The country/region that you specify must support the language specified in the Language element. For possible values, see Ad Languages.	string

Request Header Elements

Element	Description	Data Type
AuthenticationToken	The OAuth access token that represents the credentials of a user who has permissions to Microsoft Advertising accounts. For more information see Authentication with OAuth.	string
CustomerAccountId	The identifier of the ad account that owns or is associated with the entities in the request. This header element must have the same value as the AccountId body element when both are required. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it. For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.	string
CustomerId	The identifier of the manager account (customer) the user is accessing or operating from. A user can have access to multiple manager accounts. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it. For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.	string
DeveloperToken	The developer token used to access the Bing Ads API. For more information see Get a Developer Token.	string
Password	This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials.	string
UserName	This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials.	string

Response Elements

The GetKeywordDemographicsResponse object defines the body and header elements of the service operation response. The elements are returned in the same order as shown in the Response SOAP.

Response Body Elements

Element	Description	Data Type
KeywordDemographicResult	An array of KeywordDemographicResult data objects. The order of the items corresponds directly to the keywords specified in the request. If there is no demographic data available for a keyword, the keyword will be included in the list, but the KeywordDemographics element of the corresponding KeywordDemographicResult will be null. Each KeywordDemographicResult contains an array of KeywordDemographic data objects. The array contains an item for each device specified in the request. Each KeywordDemographic contains the percentage of time that users of a certain age and gender searched for the specified keyword.	KeywordDemographicResult array

Response Header Elements

Element	Description	Data Type
TrackingId	The identifier of the log entry that contains the details of the API call.	string

Request SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP request. For supported types that you can use with this service operation, see the Request Body Elements reference above.

<s:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
    <Action mustUnderstand="1">GetKeywordDemographics</Action>
    <AuthenticationToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</AuthenticationToken>
    <CustomerAccountId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerAccountId>
    <CustomerId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerId>
    <DeveloperToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</DeveloperToken>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <GetKeywordDemographicsRequest xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
      <Keywords i:nil="false" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
        <a1:string>ValueHere</a1:string>
      </Keywords>
      <Language i:nil="false">ValueHere</Language>
      <PublisherCountry i:nil="false">ValueHere</PublisherCountry>
      <Device i:nil="false" xmlns:a1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
        <a1:string>ValueHere</a1:string>
      </Device>
    </GetKeywordDemographicsRequest>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Response SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP response.

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
    <TrackingId d3p1:nil="false" xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">ValueHere</TrackingId>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <GetKeywordDemographicsResponse xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
      <KeywordDemographicResult d4p1:nil="false" xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <KeywordDemographicResult>
          <Keyword d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Keyword>
          <KeywordDemographics d4p1:nil="false">
            <KeywordDemographic>
              <Device d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</Device>
              <EighteenToTwentyFour>ValueHere</EighteenToTwentyFour>
              <TwentyFiveToThirtyFour>ValueHere</TwentyFiveToThirtyFour>
              <ThirtyFiveToFourtyNine>ValueHere</ThirtyFiveToFourtyNine>
              <FiftyToSixtyFour>ValueHere</FiftyToSixtyFour>
              <SixtyFiveAndAbove>ValueHere</SixtyFiveAndAbove>
              <AgeUnknown>ValueHere</AgeUnknown>
              <Female>ValueHere</Female>
              <Male>ValueHere</Male>
              <GenderUnknown>ValueHere</GenderUnknown>
            </KeywordDemographic>
          </KeywordDemographics>
        </KeywordDemographicResult>
      </KeywordDemographicResult>
    </GetKeywordDemographicsResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Code Syntax

The example syntax can be used with Bing Ads SDKs. See Bing Ads API Code Examples for more examples.

public async Task<GetKeywordDemographicsResponse> GetKeywordDemographicsAsync(
	IList<string> keywords,
	string language,
	string publisherCountry,
	IList<string> device)
{
	var request = new GetKeywordDemographicsRequest
	{
		Keywords = keywords,
		Language = language,
		PublisherCountry = publisherCountry,
		Device = device
	};

	return (await AdInsightService.CallAsync((s, r) => s.GetKeywordDemographicsAsync(r), request));
}

static GetKeywordDemographicsResponse getKeywordDemographics(
	ArrayOfstring keywords,
	java.lang.String language,
	java.lang.String publisherCountry,
	ArrayOfstring device) throws RemoteException, Exception
{
	GetKeywordDemographicsRequest request = new GetKeywordDemographicsRequest();

	request.setKeywords(keywords);
	request.setLanguage(language);
	request.setPublisherCountry(publisherCountry);
	request.setDevice(device);

	return AdInsightService.getService().getKeywordDemographics(request);
}

static function GetKeywordDemographics(
	$keywords,
	$language,
	$publisherCountry,
	$device)
{

	$GLOBALS['Proxy'] = $GLOBALS['AdInsightProxy'];

	$request = new GetKeywordDemographicsRequest();

	$request->Keywords = $keywords;
	$request->Language = $language;
	$request->PublisherCountry = $publisherCountry;
	$request->Device = $device;

	return $GLOBALS['AdInsightProxy']->GetService()->GetKeywordDemographics($request);
}

response=adinsight_service.GetKeywordDemographics(
	Keywords=Keywords,
	Language=Language,
	PublisherCountry=PublisherCountry,
	Device=Device)

Requirements

Service: AdInsightService.svc v13
Namespace: https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13