AdMob with Firebase - Mobile Ads Garage #6

AdMob with Firebase - Mobile Ads Garage #6

AdMob screencasts, tutorials, and example code!

At I/O 2016, Google announced that Firebase has become a suite of integrated products designed to help you develop your app, grow a user base and earn money. Part of the way Firebase can help you earn money is AdMob!

In this video, you'll learn what this change means for AdMob publishers, what benefits there are to using AdMob and Firebase together, and how to get your Android and iOS projects set up with both SDKs.

Links:
Android quick start guide:
iOS quick start guide:
iOS samples on GitHub:
Android samples on GitHub:
Linking AdMob apps to Firebase:
Firebase support page:
Technical support forum:

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

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Why does my subscriber count change?

Why does my subscriber count change?

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Interstitial Ad Best Practices - Mobile Ads Garage #5

Interstitial Ad Best Practices - Mobile Ads Garage #5

Welcome back to the Mobile Ads Garage, a YouTube series where we’ll show you the nuts and bolts of the Google Mobile Ads SDK and the best ways to monetize your apps while keeping users happy.

In our fifth episode, we’ll cover the best ways to use interstitials, some of AdMob’s publisher policies, and how to maintain a great user experience.

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2RgFD3Apyo

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Change your channel icon on YouTube's Android app

Change your channel icon on YouTube's Android app

To learn more please visit the YouTube Help Center:

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUXzE45VnlE

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Google’s Using Your Android Phone Audio To Tune It’s Hummingbird

The Sun has picked up on that Google is using the audio we all provide every day into Android phones, to tune and refine the Audio search algorithm

Quoted:

If you own an Android phone, it’s likely that you’ve used Google’s Assistant, which is similar to Apple’s Siri.

Google says it only turns on and begins recording when you utter the words “OK Google”.

But a Sun investigation has found that the virtual assistant is a little hard of hearing.

In some cases, just saying “OK” in conversation prompted it to switch on your phone and record around 20 seconds of audio.

It regularly switches on the microphone as you go about your day-to-day activities, none the wiser.

The Silicon Valley giant states on its terms and conditions that it keeps these recordings for “improving speech recognition against all Google products that use your voice”.

After the Sun Online presented examples of the voice recognition flaws to Google, a spokesman said: “We only process voice searches after the phone believes the hot word ‘OK Google’ is detected. Audio snippets are used by Google to improve the quality of speech recognition across Search.”

You may notice the prominence in your own daily searches of new suggested search terms like “Near Me”, “nearby” “in my neighborhood”.  You might have also noticed search results with titles in the links that are illustrative of a voice search being used.  Such as “the best in Austin”, “top consultant in Austin” and the like.  That is Google Hummingbird‘s work.

Google is well known for using it’s users to tease out data points, and studying user behavior.  One could say that we users are taking part in this experiment, as we search away and peer our attention on the goings on all over the planet.

The Sun article has a handy tutorial in removing your Audio functions from Google, so that you are not being recorded.  This issue of defacto automated surveillance is going to have to be answered to the Market’s satisfaction, as more and more voice search is used by the likes of Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.

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AdMob Interstitial Ads - Mobile Ads Garage #4

AdMob Interstitial Ads - Mobile Ads Garage #4

In this episode of the Mobile Ads Garage, we cover the basics of AdMob interstitial ads. We’ll start with simple projects in Xcode and Android Studio, create interstitial ad objects, load requests for them, and end up with working interstitials on both platforms.

To skip to the Android implementation, please follow this link:

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

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Personalized Search and what that means to Local Search

A terrific breakdown of the impact of the Personalized Search was just posted at link-assistant.com
Go here to read the whole thing.

“What’s personalized search?

Personalized search results are the results a user sees in a search engine that aren’t just based on the traditional ranking factors (such as the relevance of the web pages to the search term or their authority), but also on the information that the search engine has about the user at the given time, such as their location, search history, demographics, or interests. Although widely debated, the purpose of personalized search is to increase the relevance of the results for the particular user.

Both Google and Bing (and hence Yahoo, too) are personalizing their search results, but Google seems to be doing it for a larger share of searches. Back in 2011, a small experiment showed that over 50% of Google searches were being personalized; that number has likely only gone up since.”

A key problem we SEO professionals have to work around, is that these Personalized Searches can give our clients a misconception of what is truly going on with their site’s rankings in their targeted Local Searches. Location has become such a factor in these rankings, that if your client is not aware that his search may not be an apples to apples comparison of his Target Customer, Customer Avatar, etc.

The recommendation in the excellent article is to use their Rank Tracker tool. I cannot speak to that. I use an extension that allows me to determine my location, and can then do searches simulating that my location is an apples to apples comparison to my client’s most likely prospect.

What is that free extension? Tweet me at twitter and I’ll happily share it with you, it works like a charm.

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Change your channel art on YouTube's iOS app

Change your channel art on YouTube's iOS app

To learn more please visit the YouTube Help Center:

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhrX_pD0Ag

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Banner Ad Best Practices - Mobile Ads Garage #3

Banner Ad Best Practices - Mobile Ads Garage #3

Welcome back to the Mobile Ads Garage, a YouTube series where we’ll show you the nuts and bolts of the Google Mobile Ads SDK and the best ways to monetize your apps while keeping users happy.

In our third episode, we’ll cover the best ways to use banners, some of AdMob’s publisher policies, and how to maintain a great user experience.

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2K1IpXaSI

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All about cards on YouTube

All about cards on YouTube

To learn more please visit the YouTube Help Center:

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AdMob Banner Ads - Mobile Ads Garage #2

AdMob Banner Ads - Mobile Ads Garage #2

Welcome to the Mobile Ads Garage, a YouTube series where we’ll show you the nuts and bolts of the Google Mobile Ads SDK and the best ways to monetize your apps while keeping users happy.

This is our second episode, so we’re covering how to get started with the SDK and add a banner ad to projects in Android and iOS.

Links:

To skip directly to the iOS implementation, please follow this link:

AdMob Quick Start iOS:

AdMob Quick Start Android:

Sample Code for iOS:

Sample Code for Android:

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FMndW2kHo

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YouTube's Audio Library

YouTube's Audio Library

To learn more please visit the YouTube Help Center:

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Importing the Mobile Ads SDK - Mobile Ads Garage #1

Importing the Mobile Ads SDK - Mobile Ads Garage #1

Welcome to the Mobile Ads Garage, a YouTube series where we’ll show you the nuts and bolts of the Google Mobile Ads SDK and the best ways to monetize your apps while keeping users happy.

This is our first episode, so we’re covering how to get started by importing the Google Mobile Ads SDK into an Android or iOS project.

Links:

To skip the iOS implementation and go straight to Android, please follow this link:

AdMob Quick Start iOS:

AdMob Quick Start Android:

Sample Code for iOS:

Sample Code for Android:

Watch more episodes of Mobile Ads Garage here:

Subscribe to the Google Developers channel at

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLLLRUPICcc

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Add or remove managers from a YouTube channel

Add or remove managers from a YouTube channel

To learn more please visit the YouTube Help Center:

Watch more video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7HQyghyX4

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What Is Link Diversity in Google?

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Google Adwords Training coming this August

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Weekly Tip for National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Security Challenge

How these fake Facebook and LinkedIn profiles tricked people into friending state-backed hackers

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Weekly Tip for National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

How these fake Facebook and LinkedIn profiles tricked people into friending state-backed hackers

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Weekly Tip for National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Password Sharing

How these fake Facebook and LinkedIn profiles tricked people into friending state-backed hackers

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