---
title: "POST /v2beta1/accounts/{accountId}/creatives/{creativeId}:watch"
method: POST
path: "/v2beta1/accounts/{accountId}/creatives/{creativeId}:watch"
tags: ["accounts"]
---

# POST /v2beta1/accounts/{accountId}/creatives/{creativeId}:watch

`POST /v2beta1/accounts/{accountId}/creatives/{creativeId}:watch`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://adexchangebuyer.googleapis.com`
- URL: `https://adexchangebuyer.googleapis.com/v2beta1/accounts/{accountId}/creatives/{creativeId}:watch`
- Auth: OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
  - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adexchange.buyer`
  - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adexchange.buyer`

Watches a creative. Will result in push notifications being sent to the topic when the creative changes status.

## Path parameters

- `accountId` string, required
- `creativeId` string, required

## Request body

- WatchCreativeRequest: A request for watching changes to creative Status.
  - `topic` string: The Pub/Sub topic to publish notifications to. This topic must already exist and must give permission to ad-exchange-buyside-reports@google.com to write to the topic. This should be the full resource name in "projects/{project_id}/topics/{topic_id}" format.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- Empty: A generic empty message that you can re-use to avoid defining duplicated empty messages in your APIs. A typical example is to use it as the request or the response type of an API method. For instance: service Foo { rpc Bar(google.protobuf.Empty) returns (google.protobuf.Empty); }

## Changes

- **2026-10-10** `af1a744df07b`: 2 breaking
  - removed the request body
  - removed the media type `*/*` for the response with the status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/adexchangebuyer2/changes/v2beta1/accounts/:accountId/creatives/:creativeId:watch/post.md)

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