How do I distinguish Interstitial ads from reward video ads?

hamzawesome

In my game, I want my Interstitial ads to ONLY come from Ad Mob and my Reward Video Ads to ONLY come from Chartboost. Is this possible? In other words, whenever the character dies in the game, right before going to the "Game Over" scene, I made it so that an Interstitial ad plays in the rule. However, I only want this interstitial ad to be an Ad Mob ad. Also, whenever the player selects the button that plays a Reward Video Ad to get extra points, I only want the ad to be a Chartboost video ad, and selected "Reward Ad" for when it restarts the scene. The problem is, sometimes when the player presses the Reward Video Ad button, an Interstitial ad from Ad Mob plays. In the Publish page on GameSalad under "Service Configuration", there's no section called "Reward Ad," but under "Interstitial Ad" I've selected both Ad Mob and Chartboost, since that appears to be the only option. Does that mean there's no way to assign only one ad network for each of the two rules?

Hopscotch

@hamzawesome

even if you have two ad providers set up for your app, GS will only pick one at the start of the session and only show ads by that one ad provider for the duration of that play session.

This means that if the current play session of your game happens to have picked Ad Mob as the provider, then you will not be able to show any Chartboost video ads.

If Chartboost was picked, then your scenario will work fine, since you control it by your selection on scene change (picking between interstitial and rewarded).

hamzawesome

@Hopscotch said:
@hamzawesome

even if you have two ad providers set up for your app, GS will only pick one at the start of the session and only show ads by that one ad provider for the duration of that play session.

This means that if the current play session of your game happens to have picked Ad Mob as the provider, then you will not be able to show any Chartboost video ads.

If Chartboost was picked, then your scenario will work fine, since you control it by your selection on scene change (picking between interstitial and rewarded).

Do you mean if I only select Chartboost for Interstitial ads on the publish page, it'll only use Interstitial (non-video) ads for the Rule where I selected "Interstitial ads" and only video ads for the rule where I selected "Reward ads"?

Hopscotch

@hamzawesome said:

Do you mean if I only select Chartboost for Interstitial ads on the publish page, it'll only use Interstitial (non-video) ads for the Rule where I selected "Interstitial ads" and only video ads for the rule where I selected "Reward ads"?

Yes

hamzawesome

@Hopscotch said:

@hamzawesome said:

Do you mean if I only select Chartboost for Interstitial ads on the publish page, it'll only use Interstitial (non-video) ads for the Rule where I selected "Interstitial ads" and only video ads for the rule where I selected "Reward ads"?

Yes

Thanks. Do you think I can do the same thing with AdMob? I noticed that they also offer "Reward Interstitial" video ads, but those are separate ads with their own App ID and signature. If I enter those for my AdMob ID and signature on my Publish page, would that have the same effect as using Chartboost?

Hopscotch

@hamzawesome

AdMob Rewarded video has not been implemented yet as far as I know, and as Chartboost and AdMob use different APIs it will not work.

It is Chartboost only if you want Rewarded video for now.

MentalDonkeyGames

@Hopscotch said:
@hamzawesome

It is Chartboost only if you want Rewarded video for now.

RevMob reward videos should work too.

Hopscotch

@MentalDonkeyGames thanks, I missed that in 1.25 RevMob Rewarded video was added!

So, @hamzawesome, it should work the same for ChartBoost and RevMob.

but those are separate ads with their own App ID and signature.

I only see one AppID for all types of ads on RevMob. Where did you see this?