Do I need to release my game on Google play store to show ad?

Hi all, I have only started learning to use unity for game development.
I am making a game for android platform and I have followed the following links in making a button to show ad:

https://unityads.unity3d.com/help/monetization/integration-guide-unity
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Advertisements.Advertisement.Show.html

I have enabled test mode on the editor and it worked (the test ad said everything was working correctly).

But when testing the game on my actual game, the button that shows ad doesn't work. What I mean by doesn't work is I'm not seeing ad popping up.

Do I first have to publish my game to Google Play store before ad video shows or was there something I missed?
And must I leave the test mode on or off when I publish it on Play store?

Thank you.

 

Hi, mikaisomaa.
Thank you for replying.

Here's is my code responsible for showing ad:

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Button ad_Button;

public string placementID = "ShowAdVid";


void Start()
{
Advertisement.Initialize (gameId);

ad_Button = GetComponent<Button> ();

if (ad_Button)
{
ad_Button.onClick.AddListener (showAd);
}
}


void showAd()
{
while (!Advertisement.IsReady ())
{
Debug.Log ("Waiting for Ad to be ready");
}

Advertisement.Show ();
}

I attached this script to a button, my idea is the same as the ones I saw in the document.
I expected to see an ad showing when I pressed the said button.

I also included the following at the top of the script

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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.Advertisements;

 

having the same issue, have you resolved it?

 

Having the same issue. Please help if someone have fixed.

 

i have same isssue please help anyone please

 

I also have the same problem. Even my code is very basic; I was going to write more advance code but even this small code didn't work so I stopped;. My code-

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using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Advertisements;

public class ads : MonoBehaviour
{
string id = "3839051";

void Start()
{
Advertisement.Initialize(id, false);
}

public void showad()
{
Advertisement.Show();
}


}

}[/code]

 

Pls reply

 

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1. dydhiman16
2. You had not added if(Advertisement.IsReady()).
3. You can write it as this
   
   Code (CSharp):

   1. public void showad()
   2. {
   3.       if(Advertisment.IsReady())
   4.       {
   5.              Advertisement.Show();
   6.       }
   7. }
4. I have also this problem that ads are working in unity editor but not in android device. Maybe it will work for you. try this at least one time