---
title: "Delete an ad video"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/ads/videos/{videoId}"
tags: ["Ad Creatives"]
---

# Delete an ad video

`DELETE /v1/ads/videos/{videoId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://zernio.com/api`
- URL: `https://zernio.com/api/v1/ads/videos/{videoId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Removes a video from a Meta ad account's video library.

Meta's canonical
`DELETE /{video_id}` fails with code 10 / subcode 1363055 for videos uploaded via
`/act_X/advideos` even with `ads_management`; this endpoint uses the working
account-scoped shape `DELETE /act_X/advideos?video_id=<id>` and returns Meta's
`{success: true}` verbatim. Deleting a video that lives in a different ad account,
or that Meta has already removed, returns Meta's error verbatim as a 4xx.

## Path parameters

- `videoId` string, required

## Query parameters

- `accountId` string, required
- `adAccountId` string, required

## Response `200`

Video deleted

- object
  - `adAccountId` string
  - `videoId` string
  - `success` boolean

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key. `code` is `missing_credentials` when no Authorization header was sent and `invalid_credentials` when the key is unknown, revoked or expired.
- `403`: The connection has selected ad accounts (its ad-account scope, set with the dashboard picker or GET /v1/connect/{platform}/ads with adAccountIds) and the ad account this request targets is not among them, so the connection may not act on it even though its token can reach it. Code `ad_account_not_selected`. `details` carries `accountId` (the connection), `adAccountId` (the refused ad account) and `selectedAdAccountIds`. Add the ad account to the selection (adAccountIds replaces the whole selection, so pass the ids already selected plus this one) or use a connection that has it selected. Connections without a selection keep reaching every ad account their token can manage.
- `404`: The account or requested resource was not found or is not accessible. An account ID may have been disconnected and removed. Read GET /v1/accounts for current account IDs.
- `409`: The account exists but is inactive or needs reconnection. Reconnect it, then read GET /v1/accounts for its current account ID before retrying. Code: ads_connection_required.
- `501`: Only supported on Meta (facebook/instagram)

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `450ec6ec5b0e`: 1 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2026-10-06** `f8c8f34fb41a`: 4 warning
  - added the new `account` enum value to the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `account` enum value to the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `account` enum value to the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `404`
  - added the new `account` enum value to the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `409`
- **2026-10-02** `d556591af3f6`: 10 info
  - added the optional property `code` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `details` to the response with the `401` status
  - added the optional property `docUrl` to the response with the `400` status
  - added the optional property `docUrl` to the response with the `401` status
  - …6 more
- **2026-09-30** `16a7b9d5373e`: 3 info
  - removed the `platform` enum value from the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `400`
  - removed the `platform` enum value from the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `404`
  - removed the `platform` enum value from the `details/budgetScope` response property for the response status `409`
- …earlier changes not shown

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/zernio/apis/zernio-api/changes/v1/ads/videos/:videoId/delete.md)

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