Can I click my own ads to test that they work?
No — clicking a live ad in your own app is the single fastest way to get an AdMob account disabled. Use test ads instead. Google provides permanent test ad unit IDs for every format that always return a sample ad, and they are safe to click as often as you like. For testing against your real ad units, register your device as a test device (by adding its advertising ID to the request configuration) so live ad units serve test creatives to that device only. The rule to hold onto: during development, every impression you or your team generate must be a test impression. There is no allowance for “just checking it works once”, and no way to tell Google after the fact that a click was accidental.
Own a Google Play developer account?
ConsoleMint is an app monetization company: it builds Android apps, publishes them, maintains them and monetizes them with in-app advertising, then shares the ad revenue with the publishing partner whose Google Play account distributes them. Developer-role access only — never owner access, never a password — revocable with 30 days notice.
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