iPad Image Ads<\/strong> are supported within the SDK.<\/p>\nThe AdMob SDK is now unified across all devices running the iPhone OS, which means that developers can download one binary for development across all Apple iPhone OS devices \u2013 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. <\/p>\n
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According to recent numbers from the AdMob, they served ads on approximately 850,000 unique iPad devices in May 2010. 38 per cent of the unique iPad devices in AdMob\u2019s network came from outside of the US, with the Top 5 iPad countries being the United States (58 per cent), Japan (5 per cent), United Kingdom (4 per cent), China (4 per cent), and Canada (3 per cent).<\/p>\n
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Geo-targeting<\/h3>\n
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AdMob has recently begun testing their new, real-time, geo-targeting targeted advertising in the UK, partnering with location-enabled dating site Lovestruck.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Ads for Lovestruck.com will be served by AdMob on iPhone and iPod Touch devices, but only if they are in the London area. This will enable Lovestruck to serve a more relevant and targeted ad.<\/p>\n
Brett Harding<\/strong>, managing director at Lovestruck.com, said, “Our current strategy is to focus on expanding our London membership base with our new mobile dating apps. AdMob\u2019s latest technology means that we can be sure that only users in London are viewing our ads. This results in minimal marketing wastage, and in turn delivers a much lower cost-per-acquisition \u2013 a fundamental objective of our business.” <\/p>\n\n
AdWhirl<\/h3>\n
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One of AdMob’s products that has not received too much attention to date is AdWhirl<\/strong>, which they acquired in late 2009. <\/p>\nAdWhirl is an ad mediation<\/strong> product for mobile applications. It enables the app developer to easily source ads from several mobile ad networks to be served in their application. This is accomplished with a single set of ad codes, and the ads are selected according to rules setup by the developer . <\/p>\nIn the past few months, AdMob has made quite a few changes to AdWhirl:<\/p>\n
\n- It now supports both the iPhone platform as well as the Android platform<\/li>\n
- Developers can now use an unlimited number of ad networks in their apps<\/li>\n
- AdWhirl now fully supports Apple’s iAd<\/li>\n
- House Ad functionality has been expanded so developers can centrally manage their own house ads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
AdWhirl has also been made “open source”, meaning that the product’s source code is available to developers. According to their website, AdMob did this “to give developers complete control and full transparency over how they utilize their ad inventory.”<\/p>\n
AdMob currently sees more than 100 million ad requests coming through their AdWhirl platform, from some 1,700 mobile applications. AdMob says they are commited to AdWhirl, saying “We believe that open source mediation plays an important role in the mobile ecosystem by giving developers the control they need to manage their business.” <\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see how this ad mediation function is developed under Google, and whether it remains a free service or will be viewed as a future source of revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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AdMob<\/strong> has been very much in the news over the past few weeks – being acquired by Google<\/strong>, testing new geo-targeted<\/strong> ads, releasing a new SDK to support the iPad<\/strong>, and updating their AdWhirl<\/strong> optimizer.<\/p>\n