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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By : Ben Collier
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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By: Ben Collier

Overview of this book

Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app on a user's iPhone or iPad that they've downloaded from the App Store. When the user taps your advert's banner it bursts into life filling the entire screen of their device. iAd Beginner's Guide takes you through the start to finish process of building rich, compelling, interactive iAds. You will learn to create beautiful multi-page ads with store finders, social sharing, 3D images and video galleries. You will create ads that utilize the powerful technologies in the iPhone to make your brand shine. Once you have engaged the user you can carry out targeted advertising campaigns with location-based coupons, store finders and social engagement. Using the iTunes Store you will see how it's even possible to add one-click digital content purchasing right within your ad. Learn how iAd producer manages all the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 behind your iAd. You will be creating emotive, gripping and effective mobile advertising campaigns in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
iAd Production
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Joining the developer program


To access full Apple documentation and iAd tools, you need to be a member of the paid Apple iOS Developer Program. This costs $99 per year and gives you access to iAd Producer, the tool we'll use throughout this book to build some great iAds for your brand.

Note

Don't worry, despite it being called the developer program, you don't need to be a developer or have development skills for the techniques explored in this book.

Using the right hardware

The Apple software we'll be using in this book requires you to be on a recent version of their Mac OS X operating system and hardware.

You've got a Mac

If you've already got a Mac it needs to be an Intel Mac, running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, or later.