Unity Ads and the app-ads.txt file

Does Unity Ads have an app-ads.txt line?

We've got one game using Unity Ads on the Google Play store with very few views and 2 iOS games on the App Store with a lot more view and noticed we're getting a lot of (quite spammy) GET calls to our web server for the app-ads.txt file.

As we only use Unity Ads, it seems that's the one we need to put in the file, but there doesn't seem to be any info on the proper app-ads line for it.

 

Hi Zwilnik,

Some more infos here: https://unityads.unity3d.com/help/resources/monetization-faq#authorized-sellers-for-apps-faqs

Hope it will help you.

 

Why wasn't this on the operations dashboard highlighted or something!?

 

They have a blog with more info about this: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/09/06/elevating-inventory-quality-app-ads-txt-and-open-measurement/

However, Is any way to know if the authorized sellers have been changed without enter on a daily basis to check it?

 

Okay, I've been reading documentation all day, and I can't find an answer to a very simple question:

You say to put the file online. What does that even mean? Are you saying, "You need to have a website for your game. Buy a website." Then please say that.

Also, is this something we need to do before the game is published? After?

 

Is it just me or are the implementation instructions on the help page out of date?: https://unityads.unity3d.com/help/resources/app-ads-txt-support

1. Click Monetize from the unity Dashboard.
2. From the Monetize menu, select Settings, then scroll to the app-ads.txt section.

Following steps 1 and 2 do not lead to an app-ads.txt section. I can't find it anywhere?

Update: Okay I found it. Here are the new instructions for the new dashboard.

1. Pop out the sidebar (hamburger icon) on the unity Dashboard.
2. From the Monetization section, select Monetize > Organization > Settings

Honestly I had no idea that sidebar existed. Seems this is a little hidden in the new dashboard.

 

I have uploaded my app-ads.txt file. but still, it's saying "We could not find your app-ads.txt at the given App-Ads URL. Please review your “Developer Website”. If you haven’t already please create your app-ads.txt file." I don't what's happening.

 

Same for us, we've had our app-ads.txt file uploaded there for weeks and until now Unity Ads detected it fine, the status said it was okay. But today suddenly they're showing:

Other ad providers like AdMob and Facebook have no problem finding it, we just checked the status.

Either Unity's crawler is down or it's just a strange co-incidence.

 

Why would the App-Ads URL in dashboard suddenly say "Not configured" when we just checked on App Store and the link is still the same and the app-ads.txt is still in the same place at the root and AdMob just crawled it and said it was fine? Is it perhaps because we've changed the content and unity.com is now lower in the list due to other partners, is it supposed to be in the first line for Unity Ads to accept it? Or just some temporary technical issue ...

 

My god, this file is very hard to find in the Dashboard. It's not appearing in Monetization's Project Settings. This documentation is out of date, it lists Settings instead of Project Settings.

 

@ap-unity It is still not working, can you confirm it is fixed?


Developer website field: https://www.moonshadesgame.com
App-Ads URL from the dashboard: https://www.moonshadesgame.com/app-ads.txt

And I get the following message: "We could not find your app-ads.txt at the given App-Ads URL. Review your Developer Website field in the Organization Info section above. If you haven’t already please create your app-ads.txt file."

 

@Unity_Quinn As far as I know there are no special header requirements. If you check the url here: https://httpstatus.io/ the status code is 200

 

@Unity_Quinn any news on this? Thanks.

 

Not work for me too.
Added 3 weeks ago.
App-Ads URL: https://afterlifegame.com/app-ads.txt

I get the following message: "We could not find your app-ads.txt at the given App-Ads URL. Review your Developer Website field in the Organization Info section above. If you haven’t already please create your app-ads.txt file."

 

Thank you, I checked it and it is working. "Your app-ads.txt file is up-to-date. No action needed at this time."

 

Big thanks. But for some reason, after the app-ads.txt started working. My Filrate dropped by 2 times (from 99% to 50%). With funny DAU. I thought mediation was only needed when you had at least 10,000 DAU. And here it turns out you need to immediately embed it (( Does Unity have so few ads now that it can't cover 10 DAU? We're just having a soft launch. What happens then when the game needs to be scaled up (to 10,000 DAU)?

I think there is a mistake here. After all, it is not beneficial for you yourself that we connect mediation, the same Google. After all, everyone knows that Google does take ads for itself. By the way, check it. I heard that Google does it in the following way:
For example in mediations have some networks:

• Google admob
• Unity Ads
• Applovin
• etc

Google polls the networks to find out their rate and gives them a certain amount of time to respond. Officially says that it gives 0.33 ms (I don't know exactly how much). But in fact, it starts a timer, and then when it comes almost to the end (for example 0.30ms) it makes a request. Naturally, your networks do not have time to send a bid. And it turns out automatically that Google's rate becomes the highest. Because other networks simply do not have time to send a response. Maybe it's just rumors. But you would check that too if possible.

 

@Unity_Quinn I have the same problem again. "We could not find your app-ads.txt at the given App-Ads URL."

 

Thanks, I will make sure the server responds under 2 seconds.