I've built my app this way and everything seems to be working more or less. After hearing about the notoriously low iAd fill rate I decided that this would be the best method, but I tried googling it and i couldnt find record of anyone else implementing ads in their app like this. Does this violate the TOS?
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I have iAds and Admob.
I highly recommending loading an iAd first and if you dont get an Ad use admob. iAd has a much higher ECPM than admob if you get an ad. Remember that iAd refreshes every 30s so the did not get ad method will be called several times.
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John Ballinger
2010-09-02 23:35:49
Great, thanks for that information. Two admob ads were appearing on screen and I was able to solve it after realizing that the iad fail method is getting called every 30 seconds. How are you handling the case where iAd initially fails, you successfully place an admob ad in the view, then iAd succeeds some time after that. Can such a situation every occur?
culov
2010-09-02 23:39:14
I think I hide the iAd view, just in case. What I probably would do is put the iAd view back in and remove admob. iAd will make you quite a bit more money.
John Ballinger
2010-09-03 01:31:10
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Why not use Adwhirl. Its great sdk that enables you to do exactly what you need. You can set priority settings for different ad networks which can be changed on the fly if you find one network performing better than others etc.
It handles all the logic for which ad to show based on request failure or priority without you needing to worry about it. All you do is create an adwhirl view and request an ad. Adwhirl does the rest, including appropriate refreshing. If an iAd fails first time, and then shows an admob, but the next iAd loads successfully, it will be shown instead of the admob, assuming you set iAd as a higher priority network.
Jasarien
2010-09-03 00:02:37
This is the solution I decided upon, but I'm having some issues come up after I implemented AdWhirl. Most importantly, the app will request an ad on startup and fail only to never make another request! Often times i load the app and the app will never get to neither adWhirlDidReceiveAd: nor adWhirlDidFailToReceiveAd:. Also, my iAd requests always fail so I cant even see the ad frame that I need in order to visually finish the integration of the ads into my app!
culov
2010-09-05 05:08:14
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I was trying to use iAd and AdWhirl and switch between them manually in my code, when the iAd is not available. Here is the senario: -Application starts, shows an iAd and hides the AdWhirl panel. -After a while iAd doesn't get impression, it hides and I show AdWhirl.
The problem is when AdWhirls comes up, the iAd never shows up again! - (void)bannerViewDidLoadAd:(ADBannerView *)banner Never happens again.
How can I fix it? Another question is: If I put iAd banners through AdWhirl, Is it going to show iAd as much as I am getting them now? Am I going to have same Impression rate in the States as I have now (with direct iAd), or AdWhirl will give some of it to AdMob and others? Thanks
Parmis Software
2010-10-29 20:57:22