I am trying to publish an app that will use mobile ads to generate revenue.
When I try to sign up for AdMob, it tells me that I must have an AdSense account.
When I go to sign up for AdSense, it tells me that I must have a website.
I don't have a website. I have an app.
But the Adsense insists that I have one. Some helpful post indicated that if I create a blog with google, then I can use that as my "website". I did that, both on sites.google.com and blogger. If I try to use either of those to sign up with AdSense, it tells me that I must sign up for Adsense directly though either "sites.google.com" or "www.blogger.com" respectively.
"sites.google.com" apparently no longer supports new AdSense account, so I abandoned that avenue. Blogger does support it, but when I go to "Enable Earnings" it tells me that my blog is not eligible. It doesn't give me a reason, but it's likely because my "blog" has no content.
I don't want to write a blog, I want to publish an APP!!
So my question is:
1) Is it possible to get google mobile ads (yes, I'd like to use google so it integrates nicely with firebase, etc). without a website?
2) if (1) is a no, then how can I quickly and easily satisfy google that my blog/website/whatever is legit enough to warrant an Adsense account?
This has easily been the most frustrating part of launching this app, and that includes hunting down bugs in my code.
sorry if this is off topic, if there is a better forum please point me to it.
I was facing the same problem and found the solution here : https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/Xea6bNSJP1A
Basically, your Google account is now "marked" and you can't create an adsense account with that Google account unless you can provide a website/active blog address.
I created a second Google account and was able to sign up for Admob smoothly.
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I am using AdMob in my android application. Do i need to create a Privacy Policy in my application to inform users about cookies that Google uses?
If yes where do i need to put it?
Do i must write it in descriptions on Google Play? Or on fist run do I must show a fragment window? Or can I write the Privacy Policy just in section "About App"?
What do I write?
I read the Google Documents, but i didn't understand clearly.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/2519872?hl=en
To clarify for anyone who is finding this question:
The answer is yes, you need a privacy policy for your app if you are using AdMob. Refer to: AdMob Help (bottom of the page).
... Additionally, your app's privacy policy may need to be updated to reflect the use of personalized advertising (formerly known as interest-based advertising) served via the Google Mobile Ads SDK. Please take a moment to review your app's privacy policies and ensure that they are up-to-date. Because publisher pages and laws vary across countries, we're unable to suggest specific privacy policy language...
They essentially want you to inform users about the use of targeted advertising. They don't explicitly tell you what to write though.
Personally I think it should be enough to write something about that you use AdMob to serve ads and that AdMob uses the devices advertising id to serve personalized ads based on the users interests (which includes collecting and analyzing user data). A link to the Google page to opt-out of personalized advertising and to Googles Privacy Policies (here and here) can't hurt.
This also suggests that you need to have at least a link to your privacy policy in your app and on the store page. But maybe AdMob doesn't count as handling sensitive data, so maybe the link to the policy on the store page is optional in this case.
As a side note: If you use any Google Services (e.g. Location, Firebase, Places Api) you probably need a privacy policy
Things changed in 2017 (even without AdMob):
AdMob is another subject: I talk about any app event without AdMob (my case for example)
Google threatens to remove my open source app JSAir just for http://android.permission.READ _PHONE_STATE (for UX: I need to check connection is active or not = that's all).
I had the surprise of receiving a mail from Google who wants me to create a privacy policy website now (I did not have before).
I will have to say something like:
This application stores/send/read nothing apart javascript air website information!!! So there is no better privacy conscious application.
I made a public gist and posted the url here is the gist
you can check here
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I'd like to republish my app using the same package name under a different account. Can this be done?
Background:
I have read many posts about people post about how they lost their keystore or were banned, and the solution provided to them was to republish their app using a new package name and a new keystore. This is not my situation or what I'm looking to do. I do have my password(s)/keystore.
The motivation:
I have published about a half dozen apps to the market, and now that they are growing in user base, I have realized it was a mistake to publish under my personal google account and now wish to do things as a company/LLC to protect my personal assets/account. To that end, I want to effectively transfer the app to another account. using a new wallet account, admob, etc.
I imagine this would be done by unpublishing from my personal account, resigning and then uploading under a new account.
Policy Considerations:
For those people that have been banned, they are obviously breaking some kind of terms of service by republishing the same thing. I am in good standing with Google currently and don't want to risk anything that might make them upset or give reason to ban. I can not figure out whether or not this is against their TOS/policies. Especially since I am trying to migrate towards that they were advocating.
(As an aside, if it were trivially possible, why wouldn't a malicious user publish the same content under numerous accounts?)
Goal:
Retain userbase and package ID so that when I release new versions under the new account all existing users on my personal account will receive those updates.
Resources:
Developer Program Policy; https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html
Developer Distribution Agreement; https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreement.html
(There are other agreements but those two seem most relevant)
Summary question: Can I accomplish this transfer without losing users?
It is possible to transfer the ownership of your apps from one account to another in google play store. I found a blog post that tells you the steps to do so:
Visit this link
Fill out the form completely and accurately
Select “Transfer Applications to Another Account” from the Issue Type drop down
Submit Form
Check your E-Mail and reply with the requested information
Forward the E-Mail to the person accepting the app/game transfer and have them reply as requested
Wait for Google to wave their magic wand
After digging deeper I have discovered this
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/checklist/3294213?hl=en&ref_topic=3450986
Which may be the answer to transferring. I haven't done it yet, though. Plan to respond when I know it works.
Hey Friends i am new in android,i have developed Application in android and integrates admob in android application but i got email from google like invalid traffic,remove invalid activity and then my admob account is disable.i was using admob with google play services. Please Help me and tell me any good tutorials for integration admob in android.
And i got this email from admob also
Violation explanation
GOOGLE PLAY REMOVAL: AdMob publishers are not permitted to abuse or promote the abuse of any Google product, such as Google Play, YouTube, or Blogger. This includes circumventing, or providing the means to circumvent, the policies or terms of these or other Google products, such as by allowing users to download YouTube videos.
If your app is removed by Google Play policy enforcement, please contact Google Play about an app removal here. If Google Play reinstates your app, please submit an appeal to our team.
Action required: Check account for compliance
While ad serving has been disabled to the above app, your AdMob account remains active. We suggest that you take the time to review the rest of your applications to ensure that they’re in compliance with our policies, and to monitor your apps accordingly to reduce the likelihood of future policy emails from us. Additionally, please note that our team reserves the right to disable accounts at any time if we continue to see violations occurring.
Thanks in Advance.
You click your own ads several times. on purpose or not, you let other (users using same network) click your ads.
For any reason, never click your own ads, that's the golden rule. if you want to see and click your ads, you should use TEST DEVICE ID.
see this link Testing that admob working before publish
Please check below link
supprt.google.com
in that see Invalid clicks and impressions
you got your answer why your account will be disable
We have an app that exists in the Google Play store that was created by a developer who is no longer at our company. We own the app and want to remove it, but we don't know what Google account the developer used to publish the app to the store.
Is there any way we can find out what account the app is associated with? If we try to log in under Google accounts we think it might be, Google wants to charge us $25 per guess.
If we can't find the account, is there a way to have Google remove the app for us if we can provide sufficient evidence that it's ours?
If the developer is unavailable or uncooperative, and you can prove that this app includes your intellectual property, you can file a DMCA request with Google, asking them to remove it from the GP store. Read the warnings on the page carefully:
http://support.google.com/bin/request.py?&product=androidmarket&contact_type=lr_dmca
You can't pull down the application from Google Play if you don't have the access to the account which is used to upload that application. If you are lucky and the developer who uploaded the app typed his mail as contact developer mail in application in Google Play, maybe in this way trying to send a mail you can find the account which is used to upload the app, but you can't trust that, because most of the developers and companies have different mails for communicating with the customers and it depends on that.
But if you contact to Google and explain them everything and as I told above if you are lucky you can convince them to delete the app from Google Play. Or the best situation in my opinion is to contact the developer who upload the application and ask him to remove it.
Good luck!
Pretty rough situation. I'm not going to advice you to use a corporate google account in the future, but I think the easiest way is to speak with the developer in person. Then explain to him that there are several clauses in his former contract with you, which concern the intellectual property obligations, signed by him.
If you don't have any, or if he was hired on a freelancer contract, with no mentioning of the above, then you'll have the real deal in the court when he sues you for "his" intellectual property (being th application), uploaded by him on the Play Store.
Of course, this is the worse case scenario, but you should consider it.
If you have nothing left, you can contact Google, as Android-Developer above me suggested, but you risk a denial.
It is a really complicated case and I would like to see the result of it, when you settle the things out.
I'm an Android developer and I already have an Android market publisher account. There are a couple of apps in my account.
I have an idea to create a little Android development brand(company)
and publish those new apps in a new publisher account.
So I want to know that is it legal having two Android Market publisher
accounts for the same person. Will I get into any trouble?
Also will Google suspend me if I use push ad networks like Airpush and leadolt?
Thanks a lot.
I don't see a problem with an individual having multiple Android Market accounts. Each will need to be tied to a different Google ID (email address). They may also have to be tied to different Google Checkout merchant accounts, although I don't know that for sure.
You cannot publish the same app (as determined by the package name declared in the manifest) on two Android Market accounts. You can ask support to transfer an app from one account to another.
I have no idea about using other ad technologies. I suggest that you ask the Android Market people directly. See this page for support info.
I don't think google will block app if you use Third party Ad-Suppliers.
I have been using TapJoy Ad service for an year.