I started to remove the legacy Unity Ads dependencies and now I was about to install the Unity Advertisement with Mediaiton package via the package manager and I saw this note:
My question is, will the Unity (legacy) ads be maintained over time or am I forced to adopt Unity LevelPlay even if I don’t use the mediation?
If not, what is correct and not up to date between all these recommendations?
Hi, we apologize for any confusion around the recent changes to ads.
the Advertisement (Legacy) package will eventually become unsupported. At this time we advise developers who are freshly integrating advertisements into their applications to use Level Play.
Whilst the Advertisement (Legacy) package will be unsupported Unity Ads will still be available as an ad source in Level Play and the Android and iOS SDKs will still be available.
In my opinion this is a strange combination. Because if I using the Level Play I can not disable the IronSource as an advertising source. It’s very BAD!
Hi! When you say that the Advertisement (Legacy) package will be unsupported, do you mean that for any live game currently using the legacy package, the advertisements will stop working? Could you please describe what all the expected repercussions will be for such a game when the plug gets pulled on the legacy package?
I fully agree with @RSH1 - Unity Ads is a disaster at the moment. There’s three different ad systems in the Package Manager, with one of them being partnered with IronSource and then there’s their installation advice on their website - use their SDK? Use the Package Manager one? I’m just so confused now
I applied for an IronSource account and received an email asking for my bank details so that I can be charged for user acquisition (never mind the fact that emailing my bank details is just so disconcerting).
I’m now at the stage that I’ll just let my game on the Google Play Store be removed by Google when it eventually fails to meet their standards.
This is just so disappointing because whilst my game has never made any real revenue via Unity Ads, it was at least an option to effectively promote my game, with the free game pulling people across to the paid version of my game when they wanted to stop seeing the ads.
Unity is great for indie developers but it’s also becoming a mess in so many areas (don’t get me started on the hours I spent trying to fix the Package Manager). I’m now at the stage where I’m honestly considering other engines like Unreal or Godot…
I think that @Bazzajunior is right, implementing ads in Unity has become a mess.
I have to decide which of the three (!) packages use for my unreleased project.
Unity Ads seems the oldest one, dont know if its possible to use it for a new project
Unity Ads with Mediation seems well supported in the dashboard
Ironsource seems something new and not really ready (its an external package, shady procedures like asking for bank credentials via email)
I want to give a little bit of context to hopefully clear up some of the (very reasonable) confusion here.
Unity Ads refers to the Unity Ads network and the SDKs used to interface with that ad network. There is a native iOS SDK and a native Android SDK.
There is a C# wrapper for those native SDKs available in the Unity Package Manager. That package is currently called Advertisements Legacy. (It was previously just called Advertisements).
A mediation SDK integrates with multiple ad networks to potentially generate more revenue, while adding some additional complexity.
Unity developed and released a mediation SDK called Unity Mediation (Advertisements with Mediation in the Package Manager) as an option for publishers. This would include Unity Ads as a network, which meant it would have its own C# adapter to the native SDKs.
It didn’t make sense to maintain two packages that are both C# wrappers for the native Unity Ads SDKs. That was the motivation for renaming the Unity Ads C# package to Advertisements Legacy and adding the message encouraging people to move to Unity Mediation.
Last year, Unity merged with ironSource, which had its own mediation SDK, LevelPlay. We opted to move forward with LevelPlay, since it was the more mature product. LevelPlay has its own C# wrapper for all of its ad networks, including Unity Ads. This is currently available as the Ads with Mediation package in Package Manager.
As Adam mentioned, LevelPlay (Ads with Mediation) is our recommended ads integration.
Unity Mediation (Advertisements with Mediation) is no longer available for new integrations. Once we have any plans to share around this, we will let you know.
The Advertisement Legacy package does still work. Once we have any plans to share around this, we will let you know.
You mean that the package Ads with mediation is currently managed by level play? Cause the documentation it says that in order to integrate level play is necessary to download an external package from level play website
Yes. This can be confirmed from the package documentation: Use the Ads Mediation package to monetize your app with Unity LevelPlay, a monetization tool that allows multiple ad networks to compete for your impressions. This package includes a suite of growth solutions, such as in-app bidding, waterfall ad strategies, A/B testing, and cross promotion.
Where did you see that URL linked? I don’t know if that will be a valid URL or not, so if it was published somewhere, we’ll get it updated to the correct site.
I’d like to add that as I’m developing my project that is not published yet I had to move from Unity to Unity Mediation (with success, I got it working). Now I tried to move from Unity Mediation to LevelPlay. This is giving me headaches. Apart form getting an email to reply back with my account detail (FFS), they also requested links to stores to my app plus other details.
As my app is not published yet I am unable to activate ironsource account so it seems! This just ridiculous.
On top of that for the last 4 days I’m fighting this not ready solution that is Level Play.
I’m unable to make IronSource DemoScene load ads to my android device.
I’m unable to load test ads to android device in my own game either.
I’m going through 3 different ads solution in a space of a year or so. Complete nightmare. I now have unity mediation merged into levelplay so I have no way back to unity mediation. levelplay is not working. Ads with Unity is a complete catastrophe if you ask me.
Please sort it out.
Hello to who it may consern in unity 3d Ads I totally agree with 71kris , unity ads system is in big issues seemed like they don’t know what they are doing and also not caring about devs who are tired and wasting a lot of their time , I’m tired of their recent irresponsibilty toward devs , before they had good ads system I mean Advertisement Legacy => then updated it and it was perfect initialising the ads at the start of the game ones only => then they changed to mediation beta => then mediation became official => then no mediation is under support anymore or legacy so what ?? => levelyplay and Ironsource shit , a lot of integrations and nothing clear or working well but even thought I totally managed to deal with it ((integrating it + fixing the resolver dependencies and gradlew.bat file people went though this can understand what I’m saying)) for about a week of hard work and tests but always the same issues , ads not shwowing properly and they way I want and as I used to do before under test not the charboost one or ironsource , but neither unity interstitial the only one I can see on test is unity banner and rewarded video , also their mediation sucks because even I change the placement name to the ironsouce one still showing unity test only , anyways by the end I’m stucked here not being able to use lagacy and mediation and levelplay they should have been staying on their legacy only was perfect . this is just me simple dev doesn’t have any power to change anything and besides that the day when they decide what to do and what is better for them and go on beta and official version and after a year I can think back of using Unity mobile ads . good luck everybody
Is there plans for the IS mediation solution to be refactored so it works ‘neatly’ with the package manager and feels more ‘native’. ie no need for IS account, all managed through the Unity hub, I can essentially turn off everything except Unity Ads and have a ‘Unity Ads Only’-like end result?
Currently it is a bit of a mess.
Installing Unity Ads tells you to use Unity Mediation. Then Untiy Mediation says its no longer being ‘enhanced’ and to move on the IS mediation. Oof.
