Admob ads not clickable in iOS app

[Philip Kelly]

I have integrated Admob ads into my app on Android and iOS. The Android ads work fine, but I have recently discovered a problem on iOS. I have some banner ads that I only noticed when the app went live, that they were not clickable.

The weird thing is that I also use an interstitial ad in the app and this still works as it's supposed to. I am using the latest admob sdk 6.9.2 for iOS. The app was compiled with xcode 5.1 and iOS SDK 7.1.1

I have actually been in direct email contact with someone at Admob but have not received a solution to this problem yet. Has anyone else encountered this problem on iOS? I have seen something similar seems to be happening to a lot of win8 developers.

[Philip Kelly]

Anyone have any ideas about this problem? I  still have not solved it

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Hmm, is it possible that your app is consuming the click events? Could you try downloading and running the BannerExample project and confirming you don't see the same behavior?

Thanks,
Eric

[Philip Kelly]

Hi Eric,

I have actually run the banner sample app using one of the ad unit ID's from my app and it is clickable. What do you mean by "consuming click events"?

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Perhaps your app has some overlay with a click listener that is responding to all clicks, so the click on what you think is the banner is being consumed by the overlay and never actually making it to the banner.

[Philip Kelly]

No don't have an overlay with a click listener responding to clicks. My banners are placed at the bottom of my screen just above a tab bar, I have discovered that if I move the ad higher up on the screen that it becomes clickable again. I actually discovered this because I was trying out iAds too and found that those ads were not clickable either when I positioned them above the tab bar.

[Philip Kelly]

I solved this problem. I am also using DFP ads in my app and always try to load them first, if one is not available then I load an admob add. Initially I set up admob first and was calling the loadRequest in my viewDidLoad but after implementing DFP ads too I moved my admob loadRequest to didFailToReceiveAdWithError listener. To fix the issue of my ads not being clickable, I just had to add [self.view bringSubviewToFront self.adBanner] after the loadRequest