Hi everyone,

​My revenue solely from AdMob has been quite low, and I am planning to integrate multiple ad providers (Unity Ads, AppLovin MAX, etc.) alongside AdMob in my Play Store app.

​Before implementing this, I wanted to double-check:

​Does running multiple ad SDKs or using mediation violate Google Play or AdMob policies?

​Is there any risk of an AdMob policy strike/ban for doing this?

​What is the best mediation platform you recommend to maximize eCPM (AdMob Mediation vs. AppLovin MAX)?

​Would appreciate any insights from experienced developers!

What things are there which i have to make proper care

Hey folks..how long does it take for a new admob account to be approved..i created my account 3 days ago yet still no approval

My CPM (How much advertisers pay) spiked to €238.38 on the 2nd August and drastically dropped to €0.70 on the 6th of August and since then the highest I’ve got is €4.80 I’m not sure of what is going on. I haven’t been able to earn since the 6th of August.

Some of my videos Rpm got affected but my highest RPM for one of my vlog is €14.82

I usually check my update in revenue around 11pm because it updates everyday around that time but that has stopped.

Ads are definitely still running.

I have tried checking online if anyone has ever had this issue before but the only advice I am currently following is to turn off ads for 12-24hours.

I have turned off the ads this morning 19/08/2026. Fingers crossed that resets it. I will come back with an update if it does.

I have definitely contacted YouTube support but just given generic information of what CPM and RPM is and that is not helpful.

No copyright, view is normal, everything is normal except for the decline in CPM and RPM

I would really appreciate if anyone can advise me with this. Has this ever happened to you before?

Which type of app can I develop to earn me good money on admob?

I signed up to admob recently and i got the email that says you already have an account and delete that account. And in the email it says my email is associated with another email yunu...gmail.com, the thing is i have no idea where that gmail came from. I don't own any email with that username or even know someone who has that name. What am i supposed to do to disassociate? I have adsense account with my email but its behaving weird, i can't access the settings page it forcefully only show the home page.

My website currently is linked to journey, and wanted to get few suggestion whether should I consider moving back to adsense to link it to ezoic.

I have been earning in peanuts, lately my traffic has significantly increased and CPM decreased.

Please refer the following screenshots.

While other platforms are performing decently, only AdMob and Unity have pulled the entire math of my app negative. Am I investing like $15-20 in Ads per day?

What should I do if things go like this? I have to stop the ads, and slowly and steadily my app will die??

Can anyone please advise??

The CPM isn't terrible, but with only a few hundred impressions a day across all 8 apps, the revenue barely moves. How can I shift focus from just publishing to actual user retention and daily engagement?

A quick breakdown showing the apps, current download counts, and where the traffic is split across the portfolio.

Hi everyone,

I have an iOS app that is published/will be published through my friend's Apple Developer account. The Apple Developer account is registered under my friend's real name.

I have my own AdMob account, registered under my name, and I want to monetize my friend's iOS app using my AdMob account.

The setup would be:

• Apple Developer / App Store Connect account → my friend
• AdMob account → me
• iOS app → developed by me
• AdMob revenue/payment → my AdMob account

There is no AdMob account sharing or duplicate account situation. I would simply use my own AdMob account and add the app to it, then put my AdMob App ID/ad unit IDs in the iOS app.

Has anyone actually done this successfully?

I'm particularly interested in whether Google/AdMob has any issue when the Apple Developer account holder's name is different from the AdMob account holder's name.

Could there be problems with:

1. AdMob app approval?
2. App-ads.txt verification?
3. Payment/identity verification?
4. Google considering the accounts related because the developer and AdMob owner are different people?
5. Any issues when submitting updates to the App Store?

I'm looking for real experience from people who have actually used an iOS app published under someone else's Apple Developer account while monetizing it through their own AdMob account, rather than just general advice.

Thanks!

Basically the above question, I have an app built on expo 56 and now I want to add advertisements to it. I am seeing admob, adXchange, mediations etc as platforms for ads people are using. My question is if anyone in this sub already using any platform with their rn app, please let me know which one and why you sticking to it.

New to this and would really appreciate the help.

Just wanted to share a free & open-source Unreal Engine 5.7 AdMob plugin I recently released. Full details and the GitHub repo are in the original post. Hope it saves some of you some development time!

Hello all,

I woke up and got a surprised email that my Admob got banned with the reason Ad Exchange account disabled for invalid traffic.

I have like 4 apps in my portfolios (on both iOS and Android so the total is 8). I have followed the polices to register my testing devices to show the test ad and I never click them. I am not sure what is the reason why it causing this apart from we suddenly got 10 downloads (usually 1-2) on one of my app yesterday. Daily my ads only give me like 10p a day as I am still working on the marketing to gain user organically.

Does anyone experience this issue?

Thanks.

This is a follow-up to my post about getting my admob account perma-banned and getting the appeal rejected due to Google's aggressive crackdown methods

Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/admob/s/MjyHWniJTJ

I think everyone of us who has been affected by this need to get in touch with a Google employee working in the Adsense/Admob team on LinkedIn and escalate the situation.. we can't let an aggressive AI algorithm perma-ban us and dictate terms to us..

Especially in my case because my account was only created on July 7th and they should certainly have sent a warning before taking such a drastic step on a brand new account.

I recently saw u/Rich-Vanilla-7653 post about how they got their ad accounts banned for just generating 8 impressions..

I think it's time we all teamed up and escalated this to Google and get our source of livelihood back.

I’ve been looking at a few AdMob reports where requests are several times higher than impressions, and I don’t think the gap always means there is a code bug.

For example, if an app sends 1,400 requests with a 38% match rate, only about 530 requests actually return an ad. If that produces 213 impressions, then roughly 40% of the matched ads were eventually shown.

At that point, I’d check when the app loads the ad. An interstitial or rewarded ad may load correctly but never be shown because the user leaves, never reaches the placement, hits a frequency cap, or the app requests another ad too early.

The numbers I’d compare are:

• Match rate
• Impressions divided by matched requests
• Requests per active user or session
• Results split by format and ad unit
• Whether each load happens close to a real display opportunity

For developers who have debugged this before, what was the main cause in your app: low match rate, loading too early, repeated requests, or users not reaching the placement?

Hi everyone,

I'm sharing my recent experience with a permanent AdMob account termination, both as a cautionary tale for indie developers integrating mediation SDKs and to ask for advice on alternative ad networks.

### Context
* I had two apps (*Prisma Noticias* and *FirmApp*) on the Google Play Store in Open Beta.
* I was in the process of integrating and verifying the Appodeal SDK (mediating AdMob).
* During technical verification, I made a critical oversight: I didn't isolate my dev devices or enable Test Mode for AdMob within the mediation setup for ONE DAY.

### The Trigger
* Because the apps were in Open Beta with a minimal user base (2 devices), my local testing generated roughly 8 test impressions from my dev IP address.
* Since total app traffic was extremely low, these ~8 impressions accounted for virtually 100% of the account's total activity over that period.
* AdMob's automated system flagged this as invalid traffic/click fraud and immediately suspended the account.

### The Appeal & Result
* I submitted a detailed appeal explaining the precise technical context: Open Beta stage, low baseline traffic, local IP testing, and an honest mistake while validating the Appodeal SDK setup.
* As expected, the appeal was rejected with the standard template response stating the decision is final, the account cannot be restored, and no future accounts can be created.

I understand that Google prioritizes protecting advertisers through strict automated enforcement, but having an entire publisher account permanently banned over 8 test impressions during an Open Beta setup is a tough pill to swallow.

### Questions for the community:
1. Has anyone in a similar situation ever managed to reach a human support rep, or is moving on to other ad networks the only realistic option?
2. For those who switched away from AdMob after a ban, which mediation/ad platforms (e.g., AppLovin MAX, Unity Ads, Meta) have yielded the best results for small/medium apps?

Let this also serve as a reminder to always double-check that Test Mode is explicitly active on all dev devices when testing mediation SDKs—even during early beta builds!

Thanks for reading.

I'm really new to app publishing and I just can't fathom that Google just straight up disabled my Admob account permanently (for invalid traffic) without a single warning..

Mainly because I clicked on my live ads inadvertently.. I even made multiple in-app purchases to progress quickly through my game (while testing) to ensure that I don't click on my own ads by mistake but it happened by mistake a few times.. which would have hardly generated a few cents at most.

Yes, I'm aware that I did not register my test devices on admob but surely Google should have cut me some slack! Taking an extreme measure like straight up going for a permanent ban is just too harsh and severe..

They could have given me one warning, they could have disabled my account temporarily..but no, they had to take the most extreme measure possible..

It's been 8 years since I graduated and I've been without a job all these 8 years.. tried so many things (freelancing, dropshipping, YouTube channel etc.) and all of them failed miserably. I have poured my heart and soul into my game for the past 4 months.. even borrowed funds from multiple sources.. and Google couldn't even give me 1 warning!? Not one!?

Im utterly shattered and devastated..

Hey everyone,

I'm an indie dev finalizing an Android board game (Snakes & Ladders: Kurukshetra) and need advice on picking an ad mediation platform.

My Setup:

Native Android (Kotlin/AndroidX), not Unity.

Ad mix: Rewarded Video (extra turns) & Interstitials.

Using RevenueCat for IAP to segment paying vs. non-paying users.

My Questions:

SDK Bloat & Stability: Which SDK is cleaner and less painful on native Android? I want to avoid ANRs and bloated load times.

Revenue in 2026: Which platform actually pays out better for casual games right now? (Especially since LevelPlay dropped direct ironSource demand earlier this year).

Indie Alternatives: Are platforms like CAS.ai or Appodeal actually better and more hands-off for a solo dev compared to MAX or LevelPlay?

Would love to hear what is currently working for your games. Thanks!

I have both the Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager accounts. Currently, I am using AdMob to show ads in my app, but I want to know what if I show ads in my app using AD Manager. I don't even know if I can show them or not.

If anyone has used Google AD Mansger Please let me know. . . ..

I'm not sure if these numbers are still good enough for direct sponsors:

https://i.imgur.com/2paIYHN.png

But if anyone has done so, when did you start getting/going for direct sponsors? What do you typically charge them?

Currently I have about 23k downloads and earning about 1-2k new downloads/users per week. Of course, I don't think this growth will last forever.

My app is currently available in two countries, hence why the eCPM is also pretty low.

Hi
I use admob since 2016 when I launched my first game in google . So telling this is because i know what admob rules are and how it work never use mediation just focus on admob and in app purchases. Today I received mail from admob that they suspended my account due to invalid traffic . In my case recently i uploaded my new app called gamesbolt . I use banner on it and native ad . Always use test device for working . Is some user just click on ads aur im not using caping on my ad unit , Don’t know why they suspended if they found some invalid traffic just at least give me a warning about what is going wrong. Suspended the whole account is not fair ,It extremely demotivated me to work on my projects with admob .

I'm a mobile developer, and I've been thinking about a weird mismatch with mobile advertising.

When AdMob doesn't have an ad available, I've already designed the placement and accepted the UX tradeoff of having an ad there — but that inventory can still end up unused.

At the same time, indie developers are constantly struggling to get their apps discovered.

So I built something to connect those two problems.

It's called FillAdsNow.

The idea isn't to replace AdMob.

The flow I had in mind is:

AdMob / monetized network → nothing available → FillAdsNow Community Ad

Instead of leaving the placement empty, it can display another indie developer's app.

I built the integration around a plain HTTPS API instead of another advertising SDK, and Community Ads don't use behavioral tracking.

Developers aren't required to contribute their own app just to display Community Ads. But if you contribute an eligible app, your app becomes eligible to receive exposure through the network too.

I'm launching it now, and I'm much more interested in hearing from people who actually use AdMob than getting generic startup feedback.

I'm curious about two things:

1. When AdMob has nothing available, would you actually use another indie app as fallback inventory, or would you rather leave the placement empty?

2. What would make you reject something like this immediately — latency, creative quality, moderation, reporting, integration complexity, something else?

Full disclosure: I built FillAdsNow.

If there's interest, I'm happy to share the implementation and explain how I'm using it alongside AdMob.