What ad networks are available to iPhone developers who want to distribute free regular apps (not web applets) that are ad supported?
Prompted by this story on crappy app making $200/hr.
Here's one:
Pinch Media
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I've seen a Tower Defense game (TapDefense) that makes the user click a link to a paid app in order to save the game. It uses AdMob as its ad distributor.
The Deck prides itself on being a very "high quality" advertising network. I've seen them on a few iPhone apps, but they're apparently picky about who they will allow to run their ads.
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I am developing an iPhone app and according to my business plan, I need my application to support full screen advertisements. I have checked WWDC, Apple Docs and found that ADInterstitialAd which offers what I am after is only supported on the iPad. So, I am asking about any workarounds or alternatives to display full screen ads in my application.
Any suggestion is very welcome :)
Thanks!
You can show full screen ads by using the SDKs from some of the mobile big ad companies.
1) These are free to download and install,
2) They take about 15 mins to integrate into your app in xCode.
3) They all have instructions on their websites you can follow to set them up
4) You can usually set when and where you can these full screen ads to appear in your app quite easily
5) These work on iPad / iPhone / iPodtouch.
COMPANIES:
www.revmob.com - full screens, banners, popups. Your app will show ads for big iOS games (candy crush etc) and if a user clicks on them you will get paid from revmob.
www.playhaven.com - full screens, more screens and other interesting options. Your app will show ads for big iOS games (candy crush etc) and if a user clicks on them you will get paid from revmob.
www.chartboost.com - As well as doing what the two companies above do, you can also show full screen ads for ANYTHING - you can make up your own artwork and cross promote to your other games.
Hope that helps.
Elaine
www.thechocolatelabapps.com
Other ad networks (Millennial Media, AdMob, etc.) offer full screen interstitial ads for smaller devices.
You can take a look at AdMob Interstitials Ads, which provide full screen ads for small devices:
https://developers.google.com/admob/ios/interstitial
The variety of networks that offer interstitial ads is rather big, just a few of most popular: AdMob, Amazon Ads, Applovin, Chartboost, Facebook ads, Tapsense, MoPub, Appnexus and many others. AdMob is quite reliable, i use it through Appodeal plugin for Chrome, this helps to increase the perfomance. At the same time i got access to Chartboost, Applovin, Mopub, Facebook and other networks via Appodeal account. There you can adjust different settings in your dashboard, I suppose it's the easiest way to show different types of ads on all supported devices.
I would like to know after I built an application for Google TV, how can I get the app listed under http://www.google.com/tv/apps.html, or does Google do anything to help promoting Google TV Only Apps? Since it takes a separate effort to design TV friendly UI and Navigation system, what can we do to make it more visible to Google TV users? Right now the Play Store is very messy and unorganized in a way or it might only because the country I am located.
You should contact the Google TV developer advocates. In particular, Les Vogel, or Krispy. In the past they have looked at apps and provided feedback. They have also helped to get interesting apps into the featured section of the Play Store on Google TV.
You might also consider joining the Sony Developer Network, which allows you to upload your app and have them test it on their Google TV devices. They provide a test report which will help to make your app better for the TV experience. If they like your app, they can also add it to their own featured app section of the Play Store on their Google TV devices.
There is a Google TV community on G+ where you can post about your app to get some feedback from users. Do a Google search and you will also find other forums that deal with Google TV and will help to get the word out about your app.
The best marketing tool is to have a web site for you app and provide a blog to tell users about updates and plans you have for the app. You should also create a YouTube video to show your app in action. Create pages on the various social networks so that users can follow your progress.
Nothing, featured apps are either apps for GTV that are very successful or apps that Google has picked. Currently there is no way of doing anything against that. But I guess Google will work on that if they will continue GTV.
I want to show ads in my iPhone application. i can do it using iAds. I need more details regarding this.
My first question is: is iAd mandatory if i have to show advertisement in my iphone application? or i am allowed to use some other alternative to display ads.
will iAds work in earlier versions of iPhone ?
can i test iAds outside USA ?
Apple takes 40% when we use iAds, is there any other alternative? so, we don't have to share 40% of the amount every time ?
I hope, i wrote everything in the way its easy to understand.
Thanks in advance.
Random google search turns up at least 10 other ad networks:
AdMob
Brightroll
Google AdSense for Mobile Applications
Greystripe
InMobi
Jumptap
MdotM
Millennial Media
SAY Media [VideoEgg]
ZestADZ
and at least one meta ad engine that combines all of the others here.
I have no idea which ones are good, though.
i wanna put my own banner ads in my iPhone application instead of using admob or iAd services.
Is this allowed or apple prohibits such behavior ?
It's allowed as long as the purpose of your app is not primarily advertising.
Lots of developers only run their own ads for their own apps inside their apps, so it certainly seems to be allowed.
If want to run your own ad service, make sure to comply with Apple's various terms regarding such things as privacy and content ratings.
I am new to iPhone world.
I have developed an application, which I would like to send to all the iphones come under the vicinity of a particular wi-fi access point. (It is meant for a shopping mall)
With my limited knowledge in this, I understand, I cannot distribute the application through my webserver. I even cant use the 'Ad hoc mode' suggested by Apple, as registering of all the mobile phones is impractical.
I would like to know whether the only solution is 'distribution through appstore'? Or any other solution available?
Expecting your help.
Thanks.
If you mean that the application would automatically be loaded onto phones when they move into a certain shopping mall, then yes, I can see that you are new to iPhone development! :)
For security reasons, the user has to specifically choose to download the app.
If the app is not iPhone-specific but simply a web page made up to look like an app, then you could use SMS to send a URL to the phone. But that would require you to know the phone number, which is also not made available through any kind of local wireless communication, again for obvious security reasons.
The simplest approach would be to put a poster up in the mall, telling iPhone users that they can find the mall's app on the iTunes App Store.
Another possible solution is to make a web app instead of a native app.