UnityAds iOS/Android require a live released game before even testing ads?

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We are about to release our Android touchscreen game.

We have a tight schedule for promotion - planning a big reveal as we really care about ratings, reviewers and so-forth. The game has been approved, in Google Play beta releases and unseen to public for about 1 month. I’m assuming this is still hiding the game ID from UnityAds as it won’t recognize it on on the Dashboard.

UnityAds seems great and we are doing everything except seeing the “test ads” go live! In theory there will be a delay between availability of the game and our finished version.

It’s not too much to want to have everything running on release date and if anything goes wrong, well we’re in a bad position suddenly.

Any advice to go along with?

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  1. Inside Unity (5.2 or higher) navigate to Services > ADS > Go to Dashboard…
  2. At the AD Dashboard navigate to PLATFORMS…
  3. Select the desired Platform Apple App Store or Google Play Store…
  4. Go to Settings and override client test mode > Force test mode OFF…

You will see real Ads on device now…

Cheers…

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I definitely don’t want to turn off test mode yet, because we haven’t tested the Ads.

Is it compulsory to register game ID before the Ads will work? We have an approved game in Google Beta, but the game ID will not register. I’m assuming the game is unseen to UnityAds altogether until in full Production.

I’m just asking for confirmation, we’d rather have everything working before releasing to Production on Google Play.

Can someone answer this simply?