Google Mobile Ads

Monetize your app with banner or interstitial ads from Google's vast pool of advertisers. Integrate with top ad networks through mediation to maximize your revenue from impressions. Take advantage of new ad features and capabilities through Google Play services, without having to add or update a library in your APK.

Check out the Google Mobile Ads API reference and visit developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk for more information about integrating Google Mobile Ads into your app.

Upgrade to the new AdMob

Legacy AdMob will be shutting down on August 31, 2014. Beginning August 31, you will no longer be able to use legacy AdMob to promote and monetize your apps. Specifically, please be aware of the following:

  1. Ads will stop serving to legacy ad units that are not updated with new ad unit IDs.
  2. Legacy house ad campaigns will stop serving.
  3. You will not be able to access the legacy AdMob UI after August 31, 2014.

If you are still using legacy AdMob, please upgrade your account to the new AdMob as soon as possible. Upgrading takes only 5 minutes. Start here.

Key Developer Features

Seamless auto-updates

The Google Mobile Ads SDK is part of Google Play services, so you can take advantage of features and capabilities in each new release of Google Play services, without needing to update your APK.

Monetize your apps

Connect with over a million Google advertisers and show relevant ads in your app. Users engage with the ads, you make money. The Google Mobile Ads SDK fully supports AdMob, DoubleClick for Publishers, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and Search Ads for Mobile Apps.
Learn more and sign up.

Location-based ads

You can use the publisher-provided location API to provide Google with the location when requesting ads. Location-based ads can improve your app monetization.

Innovative ads

Choose from a range of ads across mobile devices and tablets, including interactive ad units.

Flexible and powerful tools

Filters and controls help you manage your ads. If you want to use multiple ad networks, you can do that too, with free ad network mediation.

Ad Policy Compliant

The Google Mobile Ads SDK available in Google Play services is compliant with Google Play Ad Poilcy regarding the usage of advertising ID.

Getting Started

1. Get the Google Play services SDK

The Google Mobile Ads APIs are part of the Google Play services platform.

To get started, set up the Google Play services SDK.

2. Run the sample

Once you've installed the Google Play services package, the Google Mobile Ads sample is located in <android-sdk>/extras/google-play-services/samples/ads and shows you how to serve banner and interstitial ads using the Google Mobile Ads APIs.

3. Read the documentation

Read the AdSense Terms of Service and the AdMob publisher guidelines and policies.

For quick access while developing your Android apps, the Google Mobile Ads API reference is available here on developer.android.com.

Detailed documentation for Google Mobile Ads for Android is available with the rest of the Google Mobile Ads developer documents at developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk.