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Using AdMob for own ads (in-house) in own application, how?

The problem
A client wants to use AdMob to print his own in-house ads in his own application. He wants to monetize the app through his own sponsors, hence he creates the necessary ads himself and shows them on the app in native ads.
At first we tried to implement our own advertisement system but the app was rejected by Google.
So my former manager (before being fired for incompetence) sold to the client an AdMob account and training (?) by Google (whatever that means). I had to take over recently after having implemented the native ad into the application.
The actual setup
In AdMob I have created the following campaign:
with the following goal (manual eCPM):
I have the following Mediation group created:
with the following settings:
State of things
Still all I see are ads from the AdMob Network. I can't publish the app on a large scale yet because of the missing in-house ads.
What am I doing wrong? I've seen unfortunately few tutorials on the subject and over all they contradictory on the eCPM values.
Thank you in advance!

AdMob mediation (Android and iOS) : how to force a network to test it?

I am implementing AdMob mediation with several third party networks. I would like to test that the mediation with each of these networks is well implemented (ads well displayed).
I would like to force the display of an ad from a defined network to test its implementation, and then switch quickly to another network.
One way to do that should be to change the bids in the AdMob mediation interface. For example put 100$ on the network I want to test and 0.1 $ on the other ones.
But the problem is it seems that there is some delay before the changes are taken into account and even after a long delay, it seems that I do not have 100% of ads from the network at 100$.
How can I force a network (any test mode ?) in a manner that I will have immediately ads from this networks on 100% of the requests ? It could be test ads from this network.
Thanks !

Most of the third part ad networks don't have a test mode via AdMob mediation.
The only way I have found so far is via the
AdMob dashboard->Monetize->'Your App's Mediation page'.
In that page when you click on the ad sources:
It will show you an edit option, from where you can pause/enable ads from individual ad networks:
I do share your pain of the delay it takes for those dashboard changes to propagate to the actual test device.
Hope this was of some help.
Kind regards,
Mukund Agarwal

Facebook Audience SDK

I am trying to display Banner Ads in any of my android Apps the last couple of weeks.
I do get the Test-Banner if I add my device as testdevice.
I do get Interstitial Ads
But I do not get any Banner.
Logcat gives me "I/Facebook Error﹕ frequent load" on any of my devices (5 tested), also tested deifferent advertiser ids from facebook.
Does anybody else have this issues?
EDIT:
After installing the facebook app on any of these test devices I do get Banner Ads delivered.
Why do they only deliver ads to users with the facebook ad installed?

The Audience Network requires the fb app to be installed on the device to delivery ads as described here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network/faq#a12. There's also a minimum time interval in between ad requests made from the same placement. If you make a new request within that interval, you'll see the frequent load error. Hope this helps!

Some Questions about Flurry

Hello I am implementing the Flurry Ads and Analytics in my application. My application has complex activity structure which includes tabhost, tabgroup, context menu, Option Menu and many other things.
While implementing I get several questions in mind and fail to get the flurry working properly.
So, My Questions are-
How can I check source network(appcircle,admob,InMobi etc) of recieved Ad? OR which ad network serve current ad ?
How can I get the number of active sessions currently?
How can I test Individual ad network (appcircle, admob, InMobi etc) working properly and serves the ads successfully?
Does anyone have implement the flurry ads with different ad networks? If yes, can please you provide the manifest data for those network.
Why Context is so important for FlurryAgent (flurry messes with context)? Can't it be global (ApplicationContext) instead of Local (ActivityContext).

There's no direct way to know the source of ad through the device. Flurry provides the impression reporting for all the ad networks individually for you to keep track. In order to test ad network mediation, you can change the priorities of ad networks, and check whether ads are getting received from the ad networks with the highest priority. Also, note that you can turn off AppCircle backfill on your ad space page (Publishers tab>Inventory>Ad Spaces>AppCircle Network).
For details on implementing mediation inside your code, please refer to the integration manual inside the SDK folder, or the Support page .
(Full disclosure: I work in the Support team at Flurry)

Can't see admob on real android device

I have app in the android market
I add to this app admob ,I can see the advertisement in the test mode.
so I upload a upgrade version to the market.
after that I download the app to my device but I dont see there nothing.
On the website of admob I can see 635 Requests but no money 0.0$
So what is the reason that the advertisement don't show up?
Thanks
Beno

Admob doesn't serve ads for all requests. In the administration of admob you should be able to find something they call impressions. That is the number of ads actually viewed. You should also find something they call "fillrate". That is the ratio between impressions and requests.
Admob says it might take a while before the system is warmed up before starting to actually return impressions for requests. And you will not see that you make any money unless people press the ads.
So be a little patient and the ads will probably show up.
Best regards
Roland