Wednesday, June 24, 2009

AdSense for Mobile Applications Beta

Are you developing free iPhone or Android applications? With our new beta product - AdSense for Mobile Applications, you can monetize your mobile applications by showing contextually targeted ads and/or placement targeted ads alongside your application content. We provide you with iPhone and Android SDKs and example applications that request and display AdSense ads. Our SDKs also support DoubleClick ads.

You can show 320x50 text and image ads linked to HTML webpages in your application. These ads are targeted to the keywords that you send us in the AdSense (or DoubleClick) ad request. The keywords must be relevant to your application content. If your application content is loaded from a webpage that is customized for iPhones and Android handsets, then you can also send us the webpage URL for us to target ads. The ads may also be placement targeted which means an advertiser can specifically target to your application.

Our iPhone SDK is compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, and our Android SDK is compatible with Android 1.5 SDK. The SDKs include a library that can be linked in to your application which exposes methods to fetch and show ads. You must place a maximum of one ad per screen at the top or bottom (see the screenshot from the Backgrounds iPhone application). When a user clicks on the ad in your application, you can choose whether the user should view the advertiser's website in iPhone Safari or a full-screen UIWebView on the iPhone. For Android applications, our API defaults to opening the advertiser's website in the native browser.

To get started with monetizing your iPhone or Android application, sign up today on the AdSense for Mobile Applications website. We can't wait to have you join our beta network!


6 comments:

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  2. Can we expect samething for any windows or any other Desktop applications? Is it practically feasible?

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  3. Is there a chance that this will also be available for J2ME?

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  4. How many adsense for mobile content tags can we put on a web page? Is it limited to 3 like normal adsense ?

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  5. I'm betting 1 adsense for mobile apps. I know Adsense for mobile content (the existing one for webapps) only allows 1 unit per page. I don't see why they would allow more units per page for mobile apps, nor would you want to -- it isn't going to increase conversions per se. One ad per page (or one ad per app) seems reasonable to me. Maybe multi-page apps can get one ad for each page but I'd think you would want just a single ad that always shows (and the pages can switch regardless of the ad showing).

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  6. Is their any possibilities to add our own ads in android application

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