Appodeal questions

Solar2D Monetization (in-app purchases, ads, etc.)
#1

I’m attempting to implement Appodeal in my new app (because it’s free) and I have a few questions that I haven’t been able to find answers for.

  1.  I’m utilizing banner ads and rewarded videos.  When in test mode both load fine. When out of test mode banners “failed to load” and the rewarded video is the same ~5 second video from adColony every time.

      - EDIT : Changing the age and gender caused the video to change. Now it loads a different video, but still the same one every time I call appodeal.show( “rewardedVideo” ) 

  1. After a rewarded video plays, my listener fires but there doesn’t appear to be any data in the event.

from Main.lua

<lua>

local appodeal = require( “plugin.appodeal” )

function adListener( event )

print(“EVENT TRIGGERED…”)

print ("PHASE … " … event.phase )    

if ( event.phase == “init” ) then – Successful initialization

appodeal.setUserDetails( { gender=glo.userGender, age=glo.userAge } )

elseif ( event.phase == “failed” ) then – The ad failed to load

print( event.type )

print( event.isError )

print( event.response )

elseif ( event.phase == “playbackEnded” ) then – Successful initialization

print ("DATA … " … event.data )

        print ("RESPONSE … " … event.response )

        print ("NAME … " … event.data )

        print ("PROVIDER … " … event.provider )

        print ("TYPE … " … event.type )

end

end

– Initialize the Appodeal plugin

appodeal.init( adListener, { appKey=glo.AppODealKey, testMode = false, bannerAnimation = true } )

</lua>

Results in…

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : PHASE … playbackBegan

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : EVENT TRIGGERED…

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : PHASE … failed

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : banner

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : true

08-12 08:17:09.023  1597  2774 I Corona  : failed to load

08-12 08:17:09.024  1597  2774 I Corona  : EVENT TRIGGERED…

08-12 08:17:09.024  1597  2774 I Corona  : PHASE … playbackEnded

08-12 08:17:09.026  1597  2774 I Corona  : EVENT TRIGGERED…

08-12 08:17:09.026  1597  2774 I Corona  : PHASE … closed

  1. Which segues to…Should I be relying on their response data in the listener or should I [can I] utilize their S2S Callback URL?

  2. The appodeal shows 7 banner impressions but over the course of 2 days it has never reflected a rewarded video view.  Whether in test mode or not. 

  3. How does compensation work?  Are you paid for each impression or only if the user reacts to it? 

Thanks in advance

#2

To get data in the reward event you should set up a reward segment for your app in the Appodeal dashboard under ‘Segments’.

If you are still testing your app you should keep testMode=true. Setting it to false will not give you many real live ads since the Appodeal system knows nothing about your app.

Before your app goes live it’s recommended that you contact Appodeal and tell them about your app so they can “flip the switch” on the mediated ad networks and make sure your app gets proper ads quickly. It’s not entirely necessary to contact them, however if you don’t it will take some time before their mediation system learns about your app.

Also keep in mind that their mediation system works best if you have at least 10k impressions / day. If you have less than that you might not see any real benefit of the mediation compared to one of our other stand-alone plugins.

#3

Thanks for the informative response.  As mentioned before I’m using Appodeal because it’s free (no $199 fee).  I came across Vungle, but read a lot of reports concerning low payouts.  Do you have suggestions for a [free] alternative until I reach 10k + impressions / day?  

As for the plugin fees, I don’t mind paying the $199 fee once I have generated income from the app.

#4

We currently have 4 paid-only plugins which include AdColony, AdMob, Chartboost and Unity Ads. The rest of our monetization plugins are either free or have a free variant. It’s difficult to recommend one particular ad network over an other as I don’t have any specific revenue data and also the fact that any such data would be very specific to a particular app. I suggest that you take a look at the monetization plugin offerings we have and see which one will suit your needs best.

I can also mention that we have plans on releasing a revenue-share based free AdMob plugin. We have no official ETA on when it will become available as it’s still in development, but if all goes well I’d say we’re talking about some time next month.

#5

To get data in the reward event you should set up a reward segment for your app in the Appodeal dashboard under ‘Segments’.

If you are still testing your app you should keep testMode=true. Setting it to false will not give you many real live ads since the Appodeal system knows nothing about your app.

Before your app goes live it’s recommended that you contact Appodeal and tell them about your app so they can “flip the switch” on the mediated ad networks and make sure your app gets proper ads quickly. It’s not entirely necessary to contact them, however if you don’t it will take some time before their mediation system learns about your app.

Also keep in mind that their mediation system works best if you have at least 10k impressions / day. If you have less than that you might not see any real benefit of the mediation compared to one of our other stand-alone plugins.

#6

Thanks for the informative response.  As mentioned before I’m using Appodeal because it’s free (no $199 fee).  I came across Vungle, but read a lot of reports concerning low payouts.  Do you have suggestions for a [free] alternative until I reach 10k + impressions / day?  

As for the plugin fees, I don’t mind paying the $199 fee once I have generated income from the app.

#7

We currently have 4 paid-only plugins which include AdColony, AdMob, Chartboost and Unity Ads. The rest of our monetization plugins are either free or have a free variant. It’s difficult to recommend one particular ad network over an other as I don’t have any specific revenue data and also the fact that any such data would be very specific to a particular app. I suggest that you take a look at the monetization plugin offerings we have and see which one will suit your needs best.

I can also mention that we have plans on releasing a revenue-share based free AdMob plugin. We have no official ETA on when it will become available as it’s still in development, but if all goes well I’d say we’re talking about some time next month.