Following its launch
at the 2016 Game Developer’s Conference, AdMob’s mediation support for rewarded
video ads has been a hit with publishers and users alike, with rapid adoption on
both Android and iOS platforms.
Our growing list of mediation partners includes eight different ad networks.
Choosing AdMob for your rewarded video mediation platform gives you access to ad
content from all of them, while you develop against a single API from AdMob.
Now, with the launch of custom events for rewarded video, you can also request
and display rewarded videos from ad networks that are not directly supported by
AdMob.
Our implementation guide for rewarded video adapters (Android
| iOS )
outlines how to implement an adapter that can serve rewarded video ads from a
third party ad network. Special attention should be paid to steps specific to
custom events that are summarized below:
Adding a custom event to your ad unit
To define a custom event, you must first create it in the AdMob interface at apps.admob.com . You can find instructions for
creating a custom event in this help center guide .
Retrieving server parameters
The optional server parameter passed to your custom event is accessed via a
special key. Here’s an example showing how to access the value in a rewarded
video adapter:
Android
String parameter = serverParameters.getString(
MediationRewardedVideoAdAdapter.CUSTOM_EVENT_SERVER_PARAMETER_FIELD);
iOS
NSString *parameter = [self.connector.credentials
objectForKey:GADCustomEventParametersServer];
You can find additional documentation on rewarded video ads in our Get Started
guides (Android
| iOS ),
and more information about mediation is available in our mediation guides (Android | iOS ). For any
other questions about rewarded video mediation, you can reach us through our developer
forum .
Ram Parameswaran , Mobile Ads Developer Relations
