Full Screen iOS Ads?

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I know that Prime31 Studios has a bunch of Plugins for the various ad-networks out there. We are using their AdMob plugin and it works well. My questions are:

  1. How does a company get approved for AdMob’s full screen interstitials? I’ve searched high and low and ended up shooting them a contact Email from their “Contact-Us” web-form.

  2. Are there any Unity3D plugins out there using any ad network that will allow me to display full-screen, static ads on the iPhone without having to be selected as an “approved developer”?

Thanks for the help in advance.

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  1. iAd given the user clicks the banner and given it feeds to your country, but otherwise no. Fullscreen ads are expensive for those doing the advertisement, so they want it targeted, they don’t go for the mass flood. Games make up 50% of the iOS market, don’t hope to high if you try to get “good deals” in a market where there is a tendency for much bigger, shinier fishes with larger user bases

that being said, admob is likely to expand its reach on that end, it just started with it.

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That is a shame, because without the more intrusive full-screen ads, I believe users will be far less likely to make an in-app purchase to remove the ads…

Greystripe seems to offer full-screen ads to anyone, and then ups the publisher’s eCPM once an impression threshold is reached. The issues there are that I’ve read that use of this SDK requires Unity iOS Pro, and is also not a plugin solution but an Objective-C one.

I can’t be the only developer with this dilemma, can I?

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@NT7Games, iAds are available full screen on iPads as of iOS 4.3. AdMob and Mobclix both have full screen interstitial ads as well now. You definitely have options other than Greystripe and Greystripe does not require Unity iOS Pro. No plugins require pro anymore. That was back in the Unity 1.7 days.

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@Prime31. Is there any way to get iPad iAds with the Mobclix plugin?

It works fine on the iPhone, but doesn’t appear to be an option on the iPad.

EDIT: Sorry, I thought I was posting on a Prime31 support thread. I’ll ask there.

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@Moonjump, as far as I know they haven’t added iPad iAds yet. They don’t appear to be in the Mobclix portal yet.

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Is there a walkthrough available anywhere on how to integrate Greystripe’s no-thumb SDK into the XCode project generated by Unity? I’m not proficient in ObjC, but with a little kick-start I’m sure it’s do-able.

Also - if Prime31 built a Plugin for Greystripe, I’d be first in-line to pay.