Infeed Banner
Integrate Infeed Banners
Infeed banner placements are designed to serve ads in scrollable feeds (nevertheless, they can also be used in all other scenarios). This includes giving the app complete control over the lifecycle of a specific banner impression. The app can load an ad with a specific configuration and gets notified about the outcome of that specific load request (successful, failure). Hence, the usage of an infeed banner differs from using sticky banners.
Create Placement
To create an instance of AATInfeedBannerPlacement, use the following API:
let configuration = AATBannerConfiguration()
let placement = AATSDK.createInfeedBannerPlacement(name: "<PLACEMENT_NAME>", configuration: configuration)
AATBannerConfiguration
AATBannerConfiguration can be configured with the number of workers and whether manual ad space counting is enabled.
Manual ad space counting (Please refer to our article about Ad Spaces.)
false
(default): infeed banner placement counts an Ad Space every time the app requests an ad from it. Shall only be used, if the app is presenting banners immediately (= not caching them for later use).true
: the app needs to notify the infeed banner placement about every Ad Space it creates (= placement doesn’t count Ad Spaces itself). This is especially useful if the app implements its own banner caching (e.g. in order to create a smooth user experience for the feed). In this case, the app should notify the placement about an Ad Space only if the feed cell intended for presenting a banner is reaching the visible area of the screen (regardless of whether an ad was available for it or not). If this sounds interesting to you, we strongly advise visiting our chapter about AATKit’s Banner Cache.To manually count an ad space, call the following
AATInfeedBannerPlacement
API:
// call it when Infeed Ad is about to be displayed
placement.countAdSpace()
Number of workers
Default: 3
Defines, how many ads can be loaded in parallel. Higher numbers will result in faster ad delivery but also in more CPU and network traffic consumption
Listen to Callbacks (Optional)
Through the use of AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate, you can listen to the different placement callbacks.
placement.delegate = self
Request Ad
The infeed banner placement uses the request completion closure instead of delegate methods like other placements. To request a banner, use the AATBannerRequest default initializer that takes an instance implementing AATBannerRequestDelegate as a parameter.
Configure AATBannerRequest
The banner request can be configured with:
A set of banner sizes of type AATBannerSize.
Targeting Information.
Content-targeting URL.
Multi-content targeting
let request = AATBannerRequest(delegate: self)
request.setRequestBannerSizes(sizes: Set([.banner320x53, .banner300x250]))
request.targetingInformation = ["key": ["value"]]
request.contentTargetingUrl = "http://example.com/similar/content"
OR
request.multiContentTargetingUrls = ["URL1", "URL2"]
Perform Request
let request = AATBannerRequest(delegate: self)
placement?.requestAd(request: request, completion: {[weak self] bannerView, error in
guard error == nil else {
// Handle Error
return
}
// Handle banner display
})
Cancel Request
There might be pending ad requests when the user navigates to a different view controller. To keep the existing lifecycle of the view controller, you need to cancel any pending requests.
placement.cancel(request: request)
Ad Info
After loading a banner view, you can access the loaded ad information by accessing the adInfo
property of the loaded banner view:
bannerPlacement?.requestAd(request: request) { [weak self] bannerView, error in
guard let self = self else { return }
if let adView = bannerView {
let adInfo = adView.adInfo
// Display the ad view
}
}
Complete Code Example
class ViewController: UIViewController {
// Create the placement
var placement: AATInfeedBannerPlacement?
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
// [IMPORTANT] Notify AATKit about the currently active view controller
AATSDK.controllerViewDidAppear(controller: self)
let configuration = AATBannerConfiguration()
placement = AATSDK.createInfeedBannerPlacement(name: "<PLACEMENT_NAME>", configuration: configuration)
// Set placement delegate to listen to the callbacks
placement.delegate = self
// Create the banner request instance
let request = AATBannerRequest(delegate: self)
// Configure request banner sizes
request.setRequestBannerSizes(sizes: Set([.banner320x53, .banner300x250]))
// Configure request targeting information
request.contentTargetingUrl = "http://example.com/similar/content"
// OR
request.multiContentTargetingUrls = ["URL1", "URL2"]
// Configure request content targeting URL
request.targetingInformation = ["key": ["value"]]
// Perform the request
placement?.requestAd(request: request, completion: {[weak self] bannerView, error in
guard error == nil else {
// Handle Error
return
}
let adInfo = adView.adInfo
// Handle banner display
})
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
// [IMPORTANT] Remove the currently active view controller
AATSDK.controllerViewWillDisappear()
}
}
// MARK: AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate
extension ViewController: AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate {
func aatPauseForAd(placement: AATPlacement) {
// Ad has been displayed on the screen
}
func aatResumeAfterAd(placement: AATPlacement) {
// Back to the app after clicking on the ad
}
}
// MARK: AATBannerRequestDelegate
extension ViewController: AATBannerRequestDelegate {
func shouldUseTargeting(for request: AATBannerRequest, network: AATAdNetwork) -> Bool {
return true
}
}
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