How to record an interstitial ad impression in Admob?

[suofei...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I have tested when Admob native ad showed in an app, it will ping an url (http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/adview?id=) to record an impression. Also Admob banner ad will ping an url (https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/activeview?id=) to record an impression that considering as viewed by a user.  But Admob interstitial ad ping both url (http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/adview?id=) and (https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/activeview?id=), so which one or the both is considered as an impression? as screenshot:

Thanks,

Tina

[Vu Chau (MobileAds SDK Team)]

Hi Tina,

Thanks for getting in touch.  The pagead2.googleadservices.com should be the impression tracking URL.  Please see the attached screenshot for details.

Vu Chau

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[suofei...@gmail.com]

Hi Vu Chau,

Thanks for your reply. If the pagead2.googleadservices.com should be the impression tracking URL.  The url https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/activeview is used for what?  If it's used for recording an impression that considering as viewed by a user, will our services record an impression?

Secondly, i have test Admob banner ad, it doesn't ping pagead2.googleadservices.com, so our services how to track impression?  it only pings url (https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/activeview?id=). 

[Andrew Brogdon (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Tina, we actually consider those impression pings (and all of the request/response traffice, really) part of the internal workings of the SDK, so we don't typically comment on them publicly. If you're using the SDK in accordance with our guidelines, your ad impressions will be counted correctly. Interstitials, for example, will automatically register an impression with AdMob when displayed.

In response to your question about banners, we don't count impressions for test ads. Because they're just for testing, there's no real need.

Thanks!

-Andrew

[suofei...@gmail.com]

Hi Andrew，

Thanks for your reply. If interstitials will automatically register an impression with AdMob when displayed, can we see the impression ping by Charles?

Our pub says their ad impression counts were incorrect, so we need to know whether our ad ping impression tracking URL when an ad was showed. We get some ad calls by Charles, but we are not sure which one is impression tracking URL. In some internal docs, it says the pagead2.googleadservices.com should be the impression tracking URL.  In fact, i only want to know :

1.Can we see the impression ping by Charles?

2.If we can see the impression ping by Charles,which url is  impression tracking ?

3.The https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/activeview? is considered as viewed by a user, does it mean recording an ad impression? 

Thanks,

Tina

[Andrew Brogdon (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

> Our pub says their ad impression counts were incorrect

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Are you a publisher? Or are you a development studio, or possibly another ad network that's trying to mediate to/from AdMob?

> In some internal docs

What docs are these?

-Andrew