Banner Ad showing and hiding vs creating and destroying best practice question

[Guy Wald]

Hi,

I've developed a Unity 5.3 game, implemented Admob banner (Top Banner) with Unity Plugin v3.0.3.

The app shows the ads during game play. The game is an endless runner which is difficult to play so the player loses, goes back to main menu, presses play again and in no time loses again.

I'm not sure if I should, once the app loads create a banner and just show and hide it, or every time the player loses the round destroy and create it again.

Currently in my game when the game play starts I run the new BannerView(<ad unit id>,AdSize.Banner,AdPosition.Top).AdRequest.Builder() to create an ad and I show it. Once the player loses the game I destroy the ad.

I've read https://developers.google.com/admob/android/games#unity_plugin_api but didn't see a specific tip about this.

So whats the best practice? :)

When should I use create/destroy and when show/hide?

How does it affect the banner in loading new ads?

Thank you,

Guy

[Veer Arjun Busani]

Hi Guy,

This is really your personal choice and I would not comment on where or when you want to place these AdViews as this is a Mobile Ads SDK forum. I personally would want to show a full screen Interstitial Ad every time the player loses. We do have a general best practices guidelines for Banner Ads. Good luck.

Thanks,
Veer Arjun Busani

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Guy Wald]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply. The Video you've sent is great and I did follow these instructions.

What is your opinion on if to use for each play session the Create and then destroy (when player loses) or should I create the Ad once and keep it either shown (when user is playing) or hidden (when menu appears) instead (oh and I will destroy the ad when application is quit).

Thank you,

Guy

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[Veer Arjun Busani]

Hi Guy,

Again this is your personal choice. It would be the same if you hide the Banner View or call destroy() and make a new AdRequest. Personally, I would make a new AdRequest every time.

[Guy Wald]

Ah, I understand. Thank you.

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