Are you developing
free iPhone or Android applications? With our new beta product - AdSense for Mobile Applications, you can monetize your mobile
applications by showing contextually targeted ads and/or placement targeted ads alongside your
application content. We provide you with iPhone and Android SDKs and example applications that
request and display AdSense ads. Our SDKs also support DoubleClick
ads.
You can show 320x50 text and image ads linked to HTML webpages in
your application. These ads are targeted to the keywords that you send us in the AdSense (or
DoubleClick) ad request. The keywords must be relevant to your application content. If your
application content is loaded from a webpage that is customized for iPhones and Android
handsets, then you can also send us the webpage URL for us to target ads. The ads may also be
placement targeted which means an advertiser can specifically target to your
application.
Our iPhone SDK is compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, and our Android SDK is
compatible with Android 1.5 SDK. The SDKs include a library that can be linked in to your
application which exposes methods to fetch and show ads. You must place a maximum of one ad
per screen at the top or bottom (see the screenshot from the Backgrounds iPhone application).
When a user clicks on the ad in your application, you can choose whether the user should view
the advertiser's website in iPhone Safari or a full-screen UIWebView on the iPhone. For
Android applications, our API defaults to opening the advertiser's website in the native
browser.
To get started with monetizing your iPhone or Android application,
sign up today on the AdSense for Mobile Applications website. We can't wait
to have you join our beta network!
By Jennifer Lin, Software Engineer,
Google Mobile Team
