Plans for upcomming update with Interstitial/video ads?

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I was messing around with the banner ads for android and that is great and all, but are there going to be future updates that expand the advertisement ways. Like video and interstitial(full screen) advertisements.

Are there plans for more advertisement ways in the future?
Or is there already a way to implement it with c++?

(I really like developing for android in unreal but would be a shame to switch to another engine for advertisements)

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I think a lot of people have asked this question over the years. I did a whole bunch of research into this myself recently and I’ve got the following pointers for you:

  • As far as I know, there aren’t any announced plans for more advertising features from Epic at this time (not even extending admob to use interstitial ads) - I’ll be glad to be proven wrong on this if anyone else has different information.
  • You can add support yourself for pretty much any advertising solution via plugins. But this is going to be a pretty big technical task (especially if you want to support both Android and IOS). I took a look into adding the Unity Ads SDK as a plugin, but got nowhere with it (just didn’t have the skillset/knowledge/time required).
  • I’ve come across some very bare-bones plugins that others have made in the past (someone added support for admob on IOS, for example), but that’s it. I’ve yet to come across a released plugin that supports any of the interstitial or video ad providers yet.
  • The most promising lead in this regard at this time is Prime31. They appear to be developing multiple plugins to address this problem (see the link for details). No ETA on when they’re due though.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks for informing me I will look into the these points.
It is just weird that unreal is not adding interstitial ads because the profit is so much more with those tools.
I will post a update If I figured some of these plugins out.

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Hi

We’ve made a plugin that adds AdMob interstitial support for Android platform in UE4 blueprints for UE4 starting from 4.10.

You can find it here: GitHub - AnnaIvanova/UE4AdBoxPlugin: Plugin that adds AdMob interstitial support for Android platform in UE4 blueprints

Hope it will help :slight_smile:

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Hey Anngel,

Thanks for your plugin, I really appreciate it.
I will try to implement it in a few days.

I post my future progress here.

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Completely forgot about this thread :slight_smile:

FYI, we’ve been using Universal Mobile Ads (Universal Mobile Ads for iOS & Android - Marketplace - Unreal Engine Forums)

It’s a premium plug-in ($99 at the time of writing) that turned up around Christmas, but it’s worth it as it supports banner, interstitial and video ads for about 10 different ads providers.

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A bit to expensive for me (as a student), but It seems like a great plug-in.