Does ads shown in emulator counts as valid impression?

[johny1...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I have a quite successful app that is not in the playstore that generate around 2 million impression per day and around 2000 clicks.

Looking at my custom stats I realised that a very BIG chunk of my users are using the app in a emulator... (around 1500 people out of 18k)

(these are people that don't have IOS that wants to use my app for example).

My question is

1) Does the fact that there is all the ads being display in an emulator will get my admob account banned? Will trigger some kind of filters their side thinking I'm doing something dodgy??
2) If the above is no, does an advert display in an emulator count as a valid impression and clicks as valid clicks ?

I'm asking this because if they are not I will need to put some kind of protection to avoid the app to be run in a emulator (if such thing does even exist) and also because these user are not supporting the app.

Thank you! 

[Joshua Lagonera (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hello there,

Your concerns seems to be on the side of our policies than our SDK. This forum is for SDK implementation related concerns only.

That said, I would have you to contact our Product Support Team as they are more fit to answer your concern.

Regards,

Joshua Lagonera

Mobile Ads SDK Team