General questions about displaying ads in apps

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi Devs,

Just wondering a few things about displaying ads in apps with one network, and also the ad mediator found here:

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/ad-mediator-corona

ad network, inmobi or inneractive:

  1. What gets shown if the user is offline?
  2. Can I display more than one banner at a time assuming I have the space?
  3. Is there a callback I receive to know when/if an ad gets displayed?

Using ad mediator:
Same questions!

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#2

Somehow there is a duplicate thread on this, not sure why but sorry about that!

Anyway, does anyone know the answers to these questions?

Thanks! [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122386[/import]

#3

Anyone? [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122472[/import]

#4
  1. I believe nothing is shown, if the user is offline.
  2. With the Corona Ad API, you can only have one ad at a time. You designate which ad provider you are using (Inmobi or Inneractive) at startup. And I don’t believe you can really switch between the two easily.
  3. When you initialize the ad network at startup you also designate a listener. Whenever you get a response from the ad network there will an event.isError property. If it is true, it means there was an error serving the ad (so you didn’t get an ad). If it is false, you were served an ad successfully and should be displaying it.
    admediator.
  4. Nothing is shown.
  5. It uses the webpopup method to display ads and you can only have one of those displaying at a time. So only one ad at a time.
  6. Each ad module has a response listener. It also uses the event.isError to determine if an ad was served successfully.

I am currently testing with admediator but am having mixed results. Using the three ad networks Inmobi, Inneractive, and Tapit. Inneractive seems to work well. Inmobi I can get to work on ios devices and not Android (haven’t been able to figure out why). Tapit seems buggy at the moment. It has been successfully getting ads (at least the response is successful), but nothing is displayed. I am hoping it is because they are new and are still ironing out the details. I would really like to try them out, but right now I don’t have 100% confidence in them.
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#5

Wow thanks for the thorough response!!! Very much appreciated, I know that was kind of a lot of questions and not a simple “yes or no” answer, I appreciate your time. Helps me decide which direction to go, I have never used ads before. Thanks again! [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122482[/import]

#6

Somehow there is a duplicate thread on this, not sure why but sorry about that!

Anyway, does anyone know the answers to these questions?

Thanks! [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122386[/import]

#7

Anyone? [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122472[/import]

#8
  1. I believe nothing is shown, if the user is offline.
  2. With the Corona Ad API, you can only have one ad at a time. You designate which ad provider you are using (Inmobi or Inneractive) at startup. And I don’t believe you can really switch between the two easily.
  3. When you initialize the ad network at startup you also designate a listener. Whenever you get a response from the ad network there will an event.isError property. If it is true, it means there was an error serving the ad (so you didn’t get an ad). If it is false, you were served an ad successfully and should be displaying it.
    admediator.
  4. Nothing is shown.
  5. It uses the webpopup method to display ads and you can only have one of those displaying at a time. So only one ad at a time.
  6. Each ad module has a response listener. It also uses the event.isError to determine if an ad was served successfully.

I am currently testing with admediator but am having mixed results. Using the three ad networks Inmobi, Inneractive, and Tapit. Inneractive seems to work well. Inmobi I can get to work on ios devices and not Android (haven’t been able to figure out why). Tapit seems buggy at the moment. It has been successfully getting ads (at least the response is successful), but nothing is displayed. I am hoping it is because they are new and are still ironing out the details. I would really like to try them out, but right now I don’t have 100% confidence in them.
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#9

Wow thanks for the thorough response!!! Very much appreciated, I know that was kind of a lot of questions and not a simple “yes or no” answer, I appreciate your time. Helps me decide which direction to go, I have never used ads before. Thanks again! [import]uid: 8139 topic_id: 30541 reply_id: 122482[/import]