Apple’s much discussed (and incredibly pricy) advertising platform starts today. iAds are starting to roll out, spearheaded by Nissan and their electric car, the Leaf. You can see most of what their iAd does in the YouTube video above.
These things really do seem to be complete apps in and of themselves, with some pretty advanced controls.
Word is, the ads will be going international “in a few months.”
My biggest concern is what this will do to your bandwidth. Now that many people are stuck on a limited bandwidth account due to AT&T putting data caps in place, how many of my precious bytes will be expended on an ad for something I don’t care about?
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Will someone please explain this whole iAd thing to me? I don’t get it. Am I just gonna start getting ads popping up on my phone? I’m confused.
I hope not because if ads will be popping up every 5 minutes or so I will trash my phone. The question is why did I pay $600 for? Ads? NO!!!
iAds are going to be mainly in free iPhone apps, they will not just pop up while using the operating system
This Nissan thing throws a kink in what I understood “iAds” to be – a location based ad network. An example being something like this: you’re walking around in Charleston, SC and you’re near Hyman’s. You get an alert suggesting lunch at Hyman’s. Maybe this Nissan thing is just a kickoff thing, and I hope so, but regardless, I also understood that iAds could be turned of in “Location Services” in the settings menu. Anybody care to confirm??
minivan….did you watch the conference debating the iphone 4 and iads? It will be ads inside of free apps. I never heard anything about alerts. It was shown as a banner inside of an app. You click on the banner and it will launch a mini app to advertise the product. When you close the app you are still in your original app.
I suppose it could use location services and display location specific banner ads when in a certain free app. I imagine that would work in something like urbanspoon. Watch jobs intro to see a demo of the whole iads product.
well, I think paid apps can use it as well but see free using it the most. Who wants to pay 5 bucks for an app and still have to see banners.