Requesting Banner Ads using a Storyboard

Now that you have setup your project with the SDK, let’s put banner ads into it.

A MPSBannerAdView can be created from a storyboard or from code. Since layouts are generally defined in a storyboard, this guide shows the storyboard method.

Add an MPSBannerAdView in a Storyboard

The MPSBannerAdView needs a reference in code to load ads into it.

Open up the Assistant Editor by navigating in Xcode to View > Assistant Editor > Show Assistant Editor.

In the Assistant Editor, make sure the ViewController.h file is showing.
Next, hold the control key, click the MPSBannerAdView and drag your cursor over to ViewController.h. For a Swift project, follow the steps above but add a reference to the MPSBannerAdView in the ViewController.swift file.

Xcode will generate and connect a property for you. Name it “adView”, and click Connect.

To resolve a compilation error, also include import nbcu_mps_ios_sdk in ViewController.swift or ViewController.h so the compiler knows that MPSBannerAdView is a valid class.

Load an Ad into MPSBannerAdView

Finally, add the following code into ViewController.swift to load an ad into the banner view.

 override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let params = MPSPageParameters(path: "page")
        params.cat = "someCatValue"
        
        let page = mps.requestPageObject(mpsParams: params)
        let targeting = ["targetingKey": "targeting-value"];
        adView.delegate = self
        adView.displayBannerAd(adSlot: "testbox", additionalTargeting: targeting, page: page, rootViewController: self)
    }

Or, if you’re following along in Objective-C add the following code to ViewController.m.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    
    MPSPageParameters *params = [[MPSPageParameters alloc] initWithPath:@"page"];
    page = [mps requestPageObjectWithMpsParams:params];   

    adView.delegate = self;
    [adView displayBannerAdWithAdSlot:@"testbox" page:page rootViewController:self];
}

Result

This image shows the displayed banner ad.