Question Is IronSource the ONLY future for Ads? I've been at this for a week already. I'm tired.

Is anyone else having issues with integrating this SDK and using it successfully?

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get these Ads working on my mobile device.

The documentation mentions to run:

IronSource.Agent.validateIntegration();

But I get an "Unsupported Platform" message back. How am I supposed to know if it's setup properly if it's getting bottlenecked in Editor? Is there a way to simulate the Android environment on PC?

Is the documentation for IronSource updated? The Demo Project C# File and the Documentation are not consistent with the functions they tell you to use, to initialize the ads.

How long will Unity Mediation be supported? What are my other options?

 

I was able to show the banner, but unfortunately it only works on build, it doesn't work in the editor or with UnityRemote5 either

 

This is what I used to get Rewarded Ads working.
AdController is a seperate custom script where I control the rewards.
Don't know how good it is, but it seems to work. . .at least testing. I had to build and run each time to make sure.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class ISInit : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     AdController adController;
8.  
9.  
10.     // Start is called before the first frame update
11.     void Start()
12.     {
13.         adController = AdController.adController;  //gets the adController
14.  
15.         //pulls the app key data from the adController
16.         string androidAppKey = adController.androidAppKey;
17.         string iosAppKey = adController.iosAppKey;
18.  
19.      
20.         //Switches between Android and Unity appKeys
21.         #if UNITY_ANDROID
22.             string appKey = androidAppKey;
23.         #elif UNITY_IPHONE
24.             string appKey = iosAppKey;
25.         #else
26.             string appKey = "unexpected_platform";
27.         #endif
28.  
29.         Debug.Log("unity-script: IronSource.Agent.validateIntegration");
30.         IronSource.Agent.validateIntegration();
31.  
32.         Debug.Log("unity-script: unity version" + IronSource.unityVersion());
33.  
34.         // SDK init
35.         Debug.Log("unity-script: IronSource.Agent.init");
36.         IronSource.Agent.init(appKey);
37.     }
38.  
39.     void OnApplicationPause(bool isPaused)
40.     {
41.         IronSource.Agent.onApplicationPause(isPaused);
42.     }
43.  
44. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class ISRewards : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     AdController adController;
8.  
9.     // Start is called before the first frame update
10.     void Start()
11.     {
12.  
13.         adController = AdController.adController;  //assigns adController
14.  
15.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdOpenedEvent += RewardedVideoAdOpenedEvent;
16.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdClickedEvent += RewardedVideoAdClickedEvent;
17.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdClosedEvent += RewardedVideoAdClosedEvent;
18.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAvailabilityChangedEvent += RewardedVideoAvailabilityChangedEvent;
19.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdStartedEvent += RewardedVideoAdStartedEvent;
20.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdEndedEvent += RewardedVideoAdEndedEvent;
21.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdRewardedEvent += RewardedVideoAdRewardedEvent;
22.         IronSourceEvents.onRewardedVideoAdShowFailedEvent += RewardedVideoAdShowFailedEvent;
23.         IronSource.Agent.shouldTrackNetworkState(true);
24.     }
25.  
26.  
27.     public bool AdLoaded()
28.     {
29.         bool available = IronSource.Agent.isRewardedVideoAvailable();
30.  
31.         return available;
32.     }
33.  
34.     public void ShowAd()
35.     {
36.         IronSource.Agent.showRewardedVideo();
37.     }
38.  
39.     void RewardedVideoAdRewardedEvent(IronSourcePlacement ssp)  //REWARDS****************************************************************
40.     {
41.         //TODO - here you can reward the user according to the reward name and amount
42.         ssp.getPlacementName();
43.         ssp.getRewardName();
44.         ssp.getRewardAmount();
45.  
46.         adController.AdRewards();
47.     }
48.  
49.     //Invoked when the RewardedVideo ad view has opened.
50.     //Your Activity will lose focus. Please avoid performing heavy
51.     //tasks till the video ad will be closed.
52.     void RewardedVideoAdOpenedEvent()
53.     {
54.     }
55.     //Invoked when the RewardedVideo ad view is about to be closed.
56.     //Your activity will now regain its focus.
57.     void RewardedVideoAdClosedEvent()
58.     {
59.     }
60.     //Invoked when there is a change in the ad availability status.
61.     //@param - available - value will change to true when rewarded videos are available.
62.     //You can then show the video by calling showRewardedVideo().
63.     //Value will change to false when no videos are available.
64.     void RewardedVideoAvailabilityChangedEvent(bool available)
65.     {
66.         //Change the in-app 'Traffic Driver' state according to availability.
67.         bool rewardedVideoAvailability = available;
68.     }
69.  
70.     //Invoked when the user completed the video and should be rewarded.
71.     //If using server-to-server callbacks you may ignore this events and wait for
72.     // the callback from the  ironSource server.
73.     //@param - placement - placement object which contains the reward data
74.  
75.     //Invoked when the Rewarded Video failed to show
76.     //@param description - string - contains information about the failure.
77.     void RewardedVideoAdShowFailedEvent(IronSourceError error)
78.     {
79.     }
80.  
81.     // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
82.     // Note: the events below are not available for all supported rewarded video ad networks.
83.     // Check which events are available per ad network you choose to include in your build.
84.     // We recommend only using events which register to ALL ad networks you include in your build.
85.     // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
86.  
87.     //Invoked when the video ad starts playing.
88.     void RewardedVideoAdStartedEvent()
89.     {
90.     }
91.     //Invoked when the video ad finishes playing.
92.     void RewardedVideoAdEndedEvent()
93.     {
94.     }
95.     //Invoked when the video ad is clicked.
96.     void RewardedVideoAdClickedEvent(IronSourcePlacement placement)
97.     {
98.     }
99.  
100.  
101.  
102.  
103.  
104.     /*   void RewardedVideoAdClosedEvent()
105.        {
106.            IronSource.Agent.init(appkey, IronSourceAdUnits.REWARDED_VIDEO);
107.            IronSource.Agent.shouldTrackNetworkState(true);
108.        }
109.  
110.        void RewardedVideoAvailabilityChangedEvent(bool available)
111.        {
112.            //Change the in-app 'Traffic Driver' state according to availability.
113.            bool rewardedVideoAvailability = available;
114.  
115.        }
116.     */
117. }

 

Any info on how long it will take and how do I know it is done?

 

I so miss my simple and soothing unity ads

 

Unity mediation worked fine too, it's a shame it was deprecated

 

If you think implementing it frustrating, wait until you actually get it working, publish your game and then IronSource denies your account verification for no good reason. And when you ask why the account is denied verification both Unity and IronSource ignore you. My advice, stick with UnityAds.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/iro...match-our-current-focus.1424184/#post-8969935

 

Thank you for the suggestion and I am actually sticking with unity ads, I cannot trust unity now it has been deprecating things left and right.

 

Unity mediation was awesome, really easy to implement and working very well. It's a f*****ing shame they deprecated it.
I tried levelplay but it's horrendous to implement, get it working etc. Plus they favor their own ads which have trash ecpm (lost 40% of my revenue switching to levelplay).
Now I'm trying admob and even though the documentation and fill rates are high, there is clearly a lack of support that unity mediation filled. I remember a guy contacting me in DM to optimize my waterfalls and such allowing me to greatly improve my ecpm

 

I just want to thank the people in this thread for illuminating the problems with LevelPlay for me. I wanted to update to it in the hopes of staying compliant but after reading what I've read here, I'm going to roll my code back and just stick to Unity Mediation as long as I can. What a shame.

 

I should have done that, unity mediation was the best ECPM I ever had

 

Sadly it looks like they're killing Unity Mediation October 1st so good luck with the upgrade.