Video ads

Monkey Targets Forums/Android/Video ads

lom(Posted 2016) [#1]
Hi everyone!
What is the best solution for implementing video ads into my app? I know there's an admob module in monkey, but as far as I know, it shows only a small banners.
What I want to achieve is to show a video ad when player completes level.


Arabia(Posted 2016) [#2]
Like to know about this also. I'm playing several games at the moment where players are rewarded in game for watching generally a 30 second video advertising other games. A lot of them tend to be Unity based games which I assume is using a Unity ad network. I asked about this some time ago and was told (at that time) it was frowned upon by the ad networks to do this, but now it seems like common practice to reward players for watching ads.


Xaron(Posted 2016) [#3]
I know one guy using vungle video ads: https://vungle.com/

You can read his report here: http://www.winterworks.de/bloo-kid-2-the-definitive-revenue-breakdown/

He was using Monkey for this game so maybe you can reach him and ask about how he had integrated it.


rIKmAN(Posted 2016) [#4]
I'm seeing a lot of Appodeal ads lately (even on Youtube) and they support banners, interstitials, video etc.

It has official Monkey support here: http://www.appodeal.com/sdk/choose_framework and there is an iOS module here on the forums if you do a search for "appodeal".


maverick69(Posted 2016) [#5]
Fairlight supports VungleAds:

You can rip the code here, if you dont want to use fairlight:
https://bitbucket.org/joemanaco/fairlight/src/071ce85e1e2b/src/ads/vungle/?at=master

If you use fairlight you can use it like this:
https://bitbucket.org/joemanaco/fairlight/wiki/Ads


maverick69(Posted 2016) [#6]
@appodeal: the official monkey module is very out of date (last time i checked it). and there is also a bug which causes crashes sometimes: http://www.monkey-x.com/Community/posts.php?topic=10388


rIKmAN(Posted 2016) [#7]
@maverick69: Do the crashes still occur even after the fix you posted in you link?

Also is it just Android, iOS, or both this happens on?


lom(Posted 2016) [#8]
@maverick69
Thanks for sharing the code. I tried to use appodeal but it seems like it's working only when the app is published on google play


Arabia(Posted 2016) [#9]
Is there some sort of test mode that either Appodeal or VungleAds can be implemented on a HTML5 build? I don't want to generate income, just want to see how to correctly implement it without building to my tablet, publishing it to GooglePlay etc.

Anyone know how much is paid per video? I can imagine it's small, and probably a variable amount - just interested in how many video views you'd need to say earn $1 (US currency I'd imagine)