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.
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 displayedplacement.countAdSpace()
// call it when Infeed Ad is about to be displayed
[self.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
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.
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)
[self.placement cancelWithRequest:request];
Complete Code Example
classViewController:UIViewController {// Create the placementvar placement: AATInfeedBannerPlacement?overridefuncviewDidAppear(_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 instancelet 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 inguard error ==nilelse {// Handle Errorreturn }// Handle banner display }) }overridefuncviewWillDisappear(_animated: Bool) { super.viewWillDisappear(animated)// [IMPORTANT] Remove the currently active view controller AATSDK.controllerViewWillDisappear() }}// MARK: AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegateextensionViewController:AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate {funcaatPauseForAd(placement: AATPlacement) {// Ad has been displayed on the screen }funcaatResumeAfterAd(placement: AATPlacement) {// Back to the app after clicking on the ad }}// MARK: AATBannerRequestDelegateextensionViewController:AATBannerRequestDelegate {funcshouldUseTargeting(forrequest: AATBannerRequest, network: AATAdNetwork) ->Bool {returntrue }}
@interface ViewController () <AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate, AATBannerRequestDelegate>
@property id<AATInfeedBannerPlacement> placement;
@end
@implementation ViewController
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
// [IMPORTANT] Notify AATKit about the currently active view controller
[AATSDK controllerViewDidAppearWithController:self];
// Create the placement
AATBannerConfiguration *configuration = [[AATBannerConfiguration alloc] init];
return [AATSDK createInfeedBannerPlacementWithName:@"<PLACEMENT_NAME>" configuration:configuration];
// Set placement delegate to listen to the callbacks
self.placement.delegate = self;
// Create the banner request instance
AATBannerRequest *request = [[AATBannerRequest alloc] initWithDelegate:self];
// Configure request banner sizes
NSSet *sizes = [[NSSet alloc] initWithArray:@[@(AATBannerSizeBanner320x53), @(AATBannerSizeBanner300x250), @(AATBannerSizeBanner320x100)]];
[request setRequestBannerSizes: sizes];
// Configure request targeting information
request.targetingInformation = @{@"Key": @[@"value"]};
// Configure request content targeting URL
request.contentTargetingUrl = @"http://example.com/similar/content";
// OR
request.multiContentTargetingUrls = @[@"URL1", @"URL2"];
// Perform the request
[self.placement requestAdWithRequest: request
completion:^(AATBannerPlacementWrapperView * _Nullable bannerView, AATBannerRequestError * _Nullable error) {
if (error) {
// Handle Error
return;
}
// Handle banner display
}];
}
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
// [IMPORTANT] Remove the currently active view controller
[AATSDK controllerViewWillDisappear];
}
#pragma mark - AATInfeedBannerPlacementDelegate
- (void)aatPauseForAdWithPlacement:(id<AATPlacement> _Nonnull)placement {
// Ad has been displayed on the screen
}
- (void)aatResumeAfterAdWithPlacement:(id<AATPlacement>)placement {
// Back to the app after clicking on the ad
}
#pragma mark - AATBannerRequestDelegate
- (BOOL)shouldUseTargetingFor:(AATBannerRequest * _Nonnull)request network:(enum AATAdNetwork)network {
return YES;
}
@end