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Where do I find my facebook ad's placement ID?

I'm trying to fill the impression gap of my other ad provider with Facebook ads (Facebook audience network) to increase the income of my application.
So far so good, the testing works, I see the facebook test ad on the emulator, however, when it comes to this code:
fbRewardedVideoAd = new RewardedVideoAd(ctx, "YOUR_PLACEMENT_ID");
I simply stuck. Documentation says it is okay for testing but I should replace this with my real placement id which I absolutely cannot find no matter where I'm looking for it and the documentation also fails to state where should I look for it.
So where is this placement id? What is this at all?
Anyone can help?

You can find your placement ID under Monetisation Manager-Properties-Your application. (if you have already created the placement ids)
If you have not created you can create a property first(Link your application) and under it you can create ad space and then property ids.
The document is here - Facebook Business

AdMob EU Consent Error: consent form can be used with custom provider selection only

I am the Google consent SDK for android and I have followed all the steps listed in the documentation. When I load the form I get this error in the onConsentFormError :
consent form can be used with custom provider selection only.
I have selected commonly used set of ad technology providers on AdMob console
So my questions are:
1. For this option, do I need to take consent from user? According to documentation on Google Developers site:
Important: The Google-rendered consent form is not supported if any of
your publisher IDs use the commonly used set of ad technology
providers. Attempting to load the Google-rendered consent form will
always fail in this case.
So is it possible I'm getting this error because of the above limitation?
2. If I have to take consent what to do about it in this case? Should I show my own custom consent dialog or something?

I am too working on this GDPR mess today and managed to get that Google-rendered form shown, like this:
According to my so far understanding, the only case you can make use of Google-rendered form is:
Use Custom set of ad technology providers
And do NOT use mediation
Otherwise you would need to render a dialog by yourself to ask for consent, which I decided not to, because according to my feeling most end users would go for negative choice while dealing with AD related questions, therefore I feel directly setting to Non-Personalized AD is in some level better than bothering user with a massive text and non-cancelable dialog.

You need to select at max 12 providers in EU user consent of AdMob. You can read more about it on this on GitHub thread.
You can pick this 12 out of 600 for start and tweak them for more revenue
Google | | https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/
Aarki | http://corp.aarki.com/privacy
Adobe Advertising Cloud | https://www.adobe.com/privacy/general-data-protection-regulation.html
Amazon | https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010
AppLovin Corp. https://www.applovin.com/privacy
AppNexus https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy
Dentsu Aegis Network http://www.dentsu.com/termsofuse/data_policy.html
eBay https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-privacy-notice-privacy-policy?id=4260#section12
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Interpublic Group | https://www.interpublic.com/privacy-notice
Omnicom Media Group |https://www.omnicommediagroup.com/disclaimer.htm
Smaato |https://www.smaato.com/privacy/

So actually if the Number of adProviders are more than 11 then we cant use Admob consent form..So either we have to Choose only 12 custom adProviders or create our own custom dialog..Or use some kind of library which does the same...
U can Use This Simple Library for Generating Custom Consent Form if needed which simplifies the things
https://github.com/saiakhil90/ConsentDialog

Your option is wrong, to use consent sdk you must choose option "Custom set..." and choose 12 or below, because the sdk not support more than 12 providers. Read more https://developers.google.com/admob/android/eu-consent

Google AdMob Code Issue (Running Live Mode ?!)

I signed up for Google AdMob services recently and been using this code to create the AdRequest.
private AdRequest createAdRequest()
{
return new AdRequest.Builder()
.AddTestDevice(AdRequest.TestDeviceSimulator)
.AddTestDevice("0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF")
.AddKeyword("game")
.SetGender(Gender.Male)
.SetBirthday(new DateTime(1985, 1, 1))
.TagForChildDirectedTreatment(false)
.AddExtra("color_bg", "9B30FF")
.Build();
}
When logging in today morning, I saw some impression (around 100) created obviously by myself. The TestDevice ID is of course not the correct ID because I was too lazy to find out the correct one.
Are the ads showing right now in my app "real" ads? Can I fix this by adding the correct device ID and will I see then inside App that the Ads are just "Demo"?
... Is there no "general testing-mode" ? I'm developing together with a friend and he has of course a different device ID...
Thanks in advance

You can add multiple device IDs, no problem:
.AddTestDevice("YOURDEVICEIDYOURDEVICEIDYOURDEVICEID")
.AddTestDevice("FRIENDSDEVICEIDFRIENDSDEVICEIDFRIEND")
.AddTestDevice("SOMEONEELSESOMEONEELSESOMEONEELSESOM")
Now your friends and you will see demo ads, all the rest will see real ads.
To get the device id you can start your app and check the logcat for an admob log that looks more or less like this:
05-20 20:27:20.888: I/Ads(32367): Use AdRequest.Builder.addTestDevice("BANANANAANANANANANANNANANANANANA") to get test ads on this device.
Just use this id as a parameter in the addTestDevice method then. See also this related admob question

Android and MoPub integration

I integrate MoPub with Android.
https://github.com/mopub/mopub-android-sdk/wiki/Banner-Integration
But the ads are not displaying, instead of that
Welcome to Mopub!
Click here to test add
You can now setup a new campaign for other adds.
How can I list ads in my app? So that it will be clicked it will be counted against my app.

Seems like your request to Mopub is being reviewed (there is probably a message in box on Marketplace tab saying so). You should wait for it to be done. However, in my case there wasn't any progress for quite a long time (about 2 weeks) until I asked for that the Mopub support. Once the request is checked you'll get ads.

When you create a new account in MoPub, Mopub automatically creates test order with that particular banner:
Welcome to Mopub!
Click here to test add
You can now setup a new campaign for other adds.
To disable this banner and add your own banners, go to https://app.mopub.com/advertise/orders/ , pause "MoPub Demo Order" and add your own orders and line items.
The system works right after the account was created, you don't need to undergo review to disable test banners or add your own banners.

Be sure to test with test ads.
This link of the MoPub documentation will show you how to use test ad id's to get an ad on every request while developing.
To make things easy for you, this is a often used solution making use of the ternary operator. This says IF development THEN use test ad id ELSE use your production ad id.
moPubView = (MoPubView) findViewById(R.id.adview);
moPubView.setAdUnitId(BuildConfig.DEBUG ? "b195f8dd8ded45fe847ad89ed1d016da" : "YOUR_PRODUCTION_BANNER_ID");

onFailedToReceiveAd(Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory when using admob with adwhirl

i just want to know if this problem is server side...or i must fix something in my code...
onFailedToReceiveAd(Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory
I'm using admob with adwhirl to show ads in my android application.

If you are getting this error, then your code is correct. The issue is that AdMob does not always have an ad to return for every request. This may happen particularly if you have just registered your AdMob publisher ID, as it takes some time and multiple requests before the new ID starts returning ads.
Another reason your fill rate may be low is that you don't have AdSense backfill enabled, or you have filtered out some ads. Check your app settings to see if that is the case.
Finally, a test you can run to see if your AdWhirl code is implemented correctly is to request a test ad. You can do this by specifying test mode in AdWhirl:
AdWhirlTargeting.setTestMode(true);
If you get back a test ad, you'll know your code is working as intended.

One of the solutions you could try:
Some times this will happened if you changed language of your Android device to exotic language (Russian for example). Try to change it back to English and AdMob will find appropriate ad for you. Or you could go to the Google Settings->Ads->Reset advertising ID

I've just found that such error is shown if your AdMob account has been banned. But it works with a test device ID.

Note that this might happen aswell if you're using (forcing) a custom width and height for the banners.
You should use the ones that DOC states:
https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/intermediate#play
If you set a custom width and height like:
new AdSize( 521,300 );
It's going to reply with the error you mentioned.

I know this was from long time ago, but here's something i did which solved this problem.
1. on your admob account, click on "manage settings" in the app you've created.
2. click on "edit".
3. under "Android Package URL:" leave blank, and then save settings.
*after you'll save, it'll show this box as "market://", which is fine.

I had this problem when using Rewarded Interstitial (beta).
Changing to Rewarded solved the problem.