To reduce complexity and provide better support, we occasionally retire dimensions, metrics, and report types. Details about what's changing, and what to use as a replacement, are listed in the table below.
Watch the "Coming soon" section of our biweekly release notes for regular communications about any scheduled deprecation or deletion. Relevant items will also be labeled "deprecated" or "discontinued" in the product interface, but not officially removed until the date announced in the release notes.
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Deprecated: This dimension or metric will be removed from the Ad Manager UI in the future. You're encouraged to use alternative dimensions or metrics instead.
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Discontinued: This dimension or metric can no longer be used in reports and will be removed from the Ad Manager UI soon.
Upcoming retirements
| Deprecation date | Publisher notifications | Summary |
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| H1, 2025 | October 17, 2024 |
Deprecation of reporting metrics The following Dynamic allocation opportunity metrics are to be removed:
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| H1, 2025 | October 11, 2024 |
Deprecation of reporting metrics |
| H1, 2025 | August 5, 2024 |
Deprecation of reporting metrics
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| H1, 2025 | June 3, 2024 | Deprecation of reporting dimensions/metrics Google Ad Manager is ending support for metrics, dimensions and attributes with low usage or related to obsolete products. These fields will be labeled as deprecated in the Reporting UI and API and removed after a limited grace period. The following metrics/dimensions are to be removed:
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| H1, 2025 | April 22, 2024 | Deprecation of reporting dimensions/metrics Google Ad Manager is ending support for metrics, dimensions and attributes with low usage or related to obsolete products. These fields will be labeled as deprecated in the Reporting UI and API and removed after a limited grace period. The following metrics/dimensions are to be removed:
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Recent retirements
| Removal date | Publisher notifications | Summary |
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| February 22, 2024 | January 15, 2024 | Activities and conversions (Spotlight) On February 22, 2024, Ad Manager will end support for Spotlight activities and conversions as part of the third-party cookies phased deprecation. Activity tags, activity groups, CPA line items, and the Data Transfer NetworkActivities file will no longer serve after this date (historical data will be available for several months). For details on Spotlight, visit Activities and conversions. |
| June 2023 |
Labeled: May 2022 |
Report type retiring: Replacement: |
| January 2020 | Labeled: March 2018 Announced: May 2018 |
Report type retiring: Data protection |
| December 2019 | Labeled: December 2019 |
Metric retiring: Replacement: |
| October 2019 | Labeled: September 2019 Announced: September 2019 |
Metrics retiring: Reach Replacement: |
| July 2019 | Labeled: June 2019 Announced: June 2019 |
Report type retiring: You may run the report to view historical data for up to six months after deprecation. |
| January 2019 | Labeled: July 2018 Announced: July 2018 |
Report type retiring: Replacement: |
| December 2018 | Labeled: November 2018 Announced: November 2018 |
Metric retiring: Replacement: |
| July 2018 | Labeled: October 2017 Announced: May 2018 |
Dimension retiring: Replacement: |
| July 2018 | Labeled: April 2017 Announced: May 2018 |
Dimension retiring: Replacement: |
| May 4, 2018 | Labeled: January 2018 Announced: March 2018 |
Report type retired: Business intelligence Replacement: Use the "Historical" report type. |
| May 4, 2018 | Labeled: January 2018 Announced: January 2018 |
Dimensions retired: |
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May 4, 2018
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Labeled: September 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Metric retired: Ad server  Ad server code served countReplacement: Combine the Demand channel dimension and the Total code served count metric. |
| May 4, 2018 | Labeled: January 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Dimension retired: Replacement: |
| May 4, 2018 | Labeled: July 2016 Announced: October 2017 |
Metric retired: Total Delivery indicatorReplacement: Use the Delivery indicator attribute of the Line item dimension. |
| January 24, 2018 | Labeled: July 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Metrics retired: Partner Management Host revenuePartner Management Host eCPMPartner Management Partner revenuePartner Management Partner eCPMReplacement: Use the Partner finance report type. These metrics will only be removed from the Historical report type. |
| January 24, 2018 | Labeled: April 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Dimension retired: Replacement: |
| January 24, 2018 | Labeled: April 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Dimensions retired: Replacement: |
| January 24, 2018 | Labeled: January 2017 Announced: October 2017 |
Metrics retired: Mediation Replacement: |
| January 24, 2018 | Announced: January 2015 | Metric retired: Ad server Audience extension cost |
