Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone

Use your Windows Phone apps and games to make money by including ads from Microsoft Advertising. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone enables you to create apps that can:

• Easily integrate text and banner ads into your apps and games.
  
  
• Provide a monetization solution that maximizes in-app advertising revenues by unlocking the power of multiple sales channels that compete in real time to purchase your ad inventory.
  
  
• Provide ad targeting capabilities to deliver the most relevant ads to your users.
  
  
• Seamlessly handle impression reporting.
  
  

The ads shown in Windows Phone apps and games are integrated with Microsoft pubCenter to monitor your ad performance in real time.

The AdControl can be used in Windows Phone Silverlight-based programs. These programs can be either games written in Silverlight or non-game apps. In Silverlight Windows Phone apps, the AdControl receives and shows ads from the Microsoft Ad Exchange.

In Windows Phone XNA games, the DrawableAd and AdGameComponent classes receive and show ads from Microsoft Advertising servers.

You can also display ads in hybrid Silverlight/XNA apps using the DrawableAd and AdComponent classes.

The documentation for the SDK is divided into the following main sections.

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