Manage ad units
Manage your app's ad units by selecting the app from the Ad units page, editing settings for rewarded, interstitial, or banner ads, and configuring parameters like reward amounts, capping, pacing, and refresh rates.
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After you've added your app to your account, you can manage all your ad units settings from the Ad units page.
Prerequisites
To start monetizing with your selected ad units, you'll need to integrate the ad unit into your code:
Select your app
From the dropdown menu at the top of the Ad units page, select the app to manage. You'll then see the ad units that are live and the following information:
- Status: active or paused
- Ad unit name
- Ad unit ID
- Ad format
- Networks: the number of networks that the ad unit is configured for.
- Hover over the number to see the networks the ad units are configured for.
- Select the number to go to the Instances page.
- Mediation groups: the number of mediation groups the ad unit ID is configured for.
- Hover over the number to see the mediation groups associated with the ad unit.
- Select the number to go to the Mediation management page.
Manage your app's ad units
Select the name of the ad unit in the table to edit its settings.
Rewarded
For rewarded video ad units, you can see the current configuration for the ad unit, including the following information:
- Ad unit name
- Ad unit ID
- Ad format
- Rewarded item name
- Reward amount: the fixed number of items the user receives after watching a rewarded video ad
- Advanced settings:
- Capping
- Pacing
Customize the ad unit name, virtual item name, reward amount, and advanced settings by selecting the relevant field and updating the settings accordingly.
Interstitial
For interstitial ad units, you can see the current configuration for the ad unit, including the following information:
- Ad unit name
- Ad unit ID
- Ad format
- Advanced settings:
- Capping
- Pacing
Customize the ad unit name and advanced settings by selecting the relevant field and updating the settings accordingly.
Banner
For banner ad units, you can see the current configuration for the ad unit, including the following information:
- Ad unit name
- Ad unit ID
- Ad format
- Banner refresh rate
Note
The banner refresh rate value you select will represent the median time between impressions.
Customize the ad unit name and banner refresh rate by selecting the relevant field and updating the settings accordingly.
Create additional ad units
To create additional ad units, complete the following steps:
- Select Create ad unit in the upper right corner of the Ad units page.
- Enter a unique name for the ad unit, and then select the ad format to create.
- Select whether to set up the ad unit with a new configuration or to duplicate settings from the same existing ad unit.
- Select Save.
The ad unit will display on the Ad units page.
Note
Loading ads with specific ad units requires the use of APIs which require an ad unit ID as a parameter.
For more information on using multiple ad units in your app, refer to the following integration guides:
Note
Minimum requirements: LevelPlay SDK 8.4.0.
Pause and hide an ad unit
To pause or hide an ad unit, select the action button at the end of an ad unit's row, and then select from the following options:
- Pause or resume delivery of the ad unit
- Hide the ad unit from the set-up pages
Note
Hiding the ad unit does not stop ad delivery and you will still see it in your reports.
Configure callbacks
LevelPlay reward-based ad units support server-side events to notify you of rewards that must be granted to your users after successful ad completion events.
For more information, refer to Server-to-server callback settings.