Additional symbols on ads of Display Ads

Update;
July 14, 2021: This change has completed.
June 30, 2021: Announced this change release.

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Document Number: APIE-FY21-2183


Dear customers,

Thank you for using Yahoo! JAPAN Ads.

We have made enhancements of available symbol characters on ads of Display
Ads. Please see the following details.

Once again, thank you for using Yahoo! JAPAN Ads.


1. Product:
 Yahoo! JAPAN Ads Display Ads

2. Effective date:
 July 14, 2021 (Wed)

3. Overview:
 We will expand the supportive symbol characters on ads of Display Ads.

 ■Available symbols
 The full-width brackets "『 』", "~" (as known as "wave-dash") etc,
 will become available on the title and description, item lists of
 Dynamic Ads for Display.
 Create more effective ads by using these symbols.

・Symbols

symbol   name   unicode   half/full witdh 
1 ' single quotation (start, end) U+27 half
 2 (*)      wave-dash      U+301C full
3 $ dollar U+24 half
4 hyphen U+002D half

 *The full-width symbol "~" (UnicodeU+301C) that represents "kara" in
 Japanese (as known as "wave dash") is converted to the symbol "~"
 (Unicode U+FF5E, as known as "full-width tilde").

・Brackets

 symbol    name   unicode    half/full width 
 1  [   square brackets   U+5B half
]  U+5D  half
2  double angle brackets  U+300A full
U+300B full

  ■Reject judgement
 Along with this change, we changed the rejection judgement of ads
 including symbols as follows.

 [Before]
 Ads including inappropriate symbols, such as continuous use of the same
 symbol, are rejected at the editorial review.
 [After]
 Continuous use of the same symbol or improper use of symbols such as
 unpaired parentheses will be an error when adding ads.
 
 *On Yahoo! JAPAN Ads Display Ads API, the following error code will
 return.
  code: F0001, message: Invalid format.

4. Impact on Display Ads API:
 ・Effected version: All
 ・Impact: The same symbols as the Campaign Management Tool are available.


If you have any questions, please contact us.

Sincerely,
Yahoo! JAPAN API support team