Admob Mediation with Unity Ads

Unity Services
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I am attempting to integrate Admob Mediation with Unity Ads, what I mean is I would like the Admob Unity SDK to drive the mediation and decide if it should display the Admob or Unity Ad based on highest revenue.

As my starting point I am using this tutorial

Although it is out of date I was able to account for the differences in the dashboard and complete all the steps.

On the Unity Side was unable to simply turn on the Unity Ads service as this gave me errors. After some email exchanges with Unity Support I was told that instead I had to import the package from the Unity Asset Store which I did.

My understanding is that as long as the Admob SDK is in my Unity Project along the side of the Unity Ads SDK and the Mediation is setup correctly on the Admob Dashboard then the Admob SDK should be able to correctly choose the best paying ad and display it.

Although I am calling the Admob SDK code as usual I am not making any calls or initiations to the Unity SDK (I am not sure that is correct)

However in reality all I ever get are Admob Ads with 0 Unity Ads impressions even after several weeks of running.

I should ad that I am not using Rewarded Ads just Interstitial ads.

I tried contacting Unity Support about this but it has now been 1 week since I received a reply (despite several emails asking for more help).

Because I see the Network Request coming through the mediation window in Admob & Unity Ads I feel like I am close but I must me missing something because I never get any impressions.

I am using Unity 2017.3.1f1

Any ideas?

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Iā€™m not sure how the admob mediation SDK works with unity, but you can simplify your integration by using Enhance.
We support admob and a wide range of networks and integration takes only minutes. With Enhance, you can take the guesswork and time out of integrating SDKs.

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Good Luck!

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Now that we got the commercial offers out of the way, is there someone that has done this that can point me in the right direction? Anyone from Unity? This should be super simple why is there no documentation about how to implement this?

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OK so I got it working on my own. The solution was actually always in the Admob Unity Ads Mediation Tutorial, I just missed it.

To get Admob to Mediate Unity Ads you need to:

  1. Download and setup the official Google Admob Plugin for Unity:
    Releases Ā· googleads/googleads-mobile-unity Ā· GitHub
  2. Setup the above so it displays Admob Ads like you would usually, no code calling Unity Ads is necessary.
  3. Download and install the Google Mobile Ads Unity Ads Mediation Plugin
    Service End for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter | JFrog

The only code you need to write is the code you would usually implement to show Admob Ads. Once you get that working importing the second plugin and setting Mediation up correctly on the Admob Dashboard is enough.

IMPORTANT: You do not import the Unity Ads plugin from the Asset Store. Doing that will not work, I have spend a month hitting my head against that door. You also do not enable the Unity Ads service in the services window.

Good Luck

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It looks like I may be hitting the same issue, I have everything seemingly set up correctly and I can see 100ā€™s of requests being made for Unity Ads but no impressions. However as you mentioned Iā€™ve installed the Unity Ads plugin and have Unity Ads enabled in the services window.

Are you saying that simply deselecting Unity Ads in the services window within the editor worked for you? Or did you have to uninstall the Unity Ads plugin as well?

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I am having the same issue. Can someone shed light on to this ? I see that Admob is calling Unity Ads but the ads are never displayed.

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I did exactly like this, but still only admob ads show, and unity ads never show.

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If anyone has any issue with admob mediation. This video will help

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Thanks!

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Hi.
Does admob get money from you, when you show unity ads using admob SDK?

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Hi, facing this problem during build. May be something with gradle?

ERROR

CommandInvokationFailure: Gradle build failed.
C:\INSTALLED\Unity 2018.4.3f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer/Tools\OpenJDK\Windows\bin\java.exe -classpath ā€œC:\INSTALLED\Unity 2018.4.3f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\Tools\gradle\lib\gradle-launcher-4.6.jarā€ org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain ā€œ-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096mā€ ā€œassembleReleaseā€

stderr[

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Execution failed for task ā€˜:processReleaseResourcesā€™.

Android resource linking failed
Output: C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml:36: error: unexpected element found in .

Command: C:\Users\UMI.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows.jar\3612db01bb1b889c1b09c4fb3b8aca3f\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe link -I
C:\ANDROID_SDK\platforms\android-30\android.jar
ā€“manifest
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml
-o
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\processed_res\release\processReleaseResources\out\resources-release.ap_
-R
@C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\incremental\processReleaseResources\resources-list-for-resources-release.ap_.txt
ā€“auto-add-overlay
ā€“java
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\generated\not_namespaced_r_class_sources\release\processReleaseResources\r
ā€“custom-package
com.gamexis.googlemedtest
-0
apk
-0
.unity3d
-0
.ress
-0
.resource
-0
.obb
ā€“output-text-symbols
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\symbols\release\R.txt
ā€“no-version-vectors
Daemon: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows Daemon #0
Output: C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml:36: AAPT: error: unexpected element found in .

Command: C:\Users\UMI.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows.jar\3612db01bb1b889c1b09c4fb3b8aca3f\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe link -I
C:\ANDROID_SDK\platforms\android-30\android.jar
ā€“manifest
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml
-o
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\processed_res\release\processReleaseResources\out\resources-release.ap_
-R
@C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\incremental\processReleaseResources\resources-list-for-resources-release.ap_.txt
ā€“auto-add-overlay
ā€“java
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\generated\not_namespaced_r_class_sources\release\processReleaseResources\r
ā€“custom-package
com.gamexis.googlemedtest
-0
apk
-0
.unity3d
-0
.ress
-0
.resource
-0
.obb
ā€“output-text-symbols
C:\PROJECTS\Google Mobile Mediation\Temp\gradleOut\build\intermediates\symbols\release\R.txt
ā€“no-version-vectors
Daemon: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows Daemon #0

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

  • Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 3s
]
stdout[
Observed package id ā€˜extras;intel;Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Managerā€™ in inconsistent location ā€˜C:\ANDROID_SDK.temp\PackageOperation01ā€™ (Expected ā€˜C:\ANDROID_SDK\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Managerā€™)
:checkReleaseClasspath UP-TO-DATE
:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:checkReleaseManifest
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:processReleaseManifest
:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:compileReleaseAidl NO-SOURCE
:compileReleaseAidl NO-SOURCE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:packageReleaseRenderscript NO-SOURCE
:compileReleaseRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
:checkReleaseManifest UP-TO-DATE
:generateReleaseBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE
:prepareLintJar UP-TO-DATE
:mainApkListPersistenceRelease UP-TO-DATE
:generateReleaseResValues UP-TO-DATE
:generateReleaseResources UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:compileReleaseRenderscript
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:generateReleaseResValues
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:generateReleaseResources
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:packageReleaseResources
:mergeReleaseResources UP-TO-DATE
:createReleaseCompatibleScreenManifests UP-TO-DATE
:processReleaseManifest
:splitsDiscoveryTaskRelease UP-TO-DATE
:GoogleMobileAdsPlugin.androidlib:generateReleaseRFile
:processReleaseResources FAILED
19 actionable tasks: 8 executed, 11 up-to-date
]
exit code: 1
UnityEditor.Android.Command.WaitForProgramToRun (UnityEditor.Utils.Program p, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.Command.Run (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.Command.Run (System.String command, System.String args, System.String workingdir, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.AndroidJavaTools.RunJava (System.String args, System.String workingdir, System.Action1[T] progress, System.String error) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0) UnityEditor.Android.GradleWrapper.Run (UnityEditor.Android.AndroidJavaTools javaTools, System.String workingdir, System.String task, System.Action1[T] progress) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
Rethrow as GradleInvokationException: Gradle build failed
UnityEditor.Android.GradleWrapper.Run (UnityEditor.Android.AndroidJavaTools javaTools, System.String workingdir, System.String task, System.Action`1[T] progress) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.PostProcessor.Tasks.BuildGradleProject.Execute (UnityEditor.Android.PostProcessor.PostProcessorContext context) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.PostProcessor.PostProcessRunner.RunAllTasks (UnityEditor.Android.PostProcessor.PostProcessorContext context) (at <103137eb219949558cde9ab87892d16a>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

Any possible fix for this?

Google Mobile Ads v4.2.1
Unity 2018.4.3

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You can fix it by following these instructions:

https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/unity/android-11-build#unity_20193_and_20194

  1. Use gradle 5.6.4
  2. Override gradle template to use 5.6.4
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Thans broh it hepls me a loot