Errors
The campaign has nobody to call
409 campaign_empty
It was told to start with no contacts on its list. A campaign with nobody to call finishes at once, and a finished campaign cannot be given contacts or started again.
What to do
Add its contacts with POST /v1/campaigns/{id}/contacts, then start it — or send them in the same request that creates it.
Retrying
No: the same request gets the same answer until something is changed.