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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

Chapter 2, Preparing Your Content


Why do we optimize our images with software like ImageOptim?

Answer: C

As images can often contain unnecessary data, optimizing them reduces the file size so they download quicker to the user of our iAd.

What tool should you use in Preview to remove a solid block of color to make part of an image transparent?

Answer: B

Instant Alpha is correct; it’s called this because alpha is often used as a term for the level of transparency an image has.

Which image format should you use whenever you can?

Answer: A

You should use JPEGs whenever you can; they’re able to be compressed to keep their file size down.

When would you need to use a PNG image?

Answer: B

You’d use a PNG when you have a transparent ‘see through’ section of an image, as JPEG doesn’t support transparency. Other times you’d use PNG, including for images with text or crisp line art, and images with large blocks of color.

What audio format should you convert your sound files to?

Answer: B

m4a audio files use AAC, which iOS devices are able to decode quickly and efficiently.

What does the ‘reference movie’ created by QuickTime do?

Answer: C

The reference movie selects the optimal version of your video depending on the user’s bandwidth. This ensures users on high bandwidth connections see the best quality video available, and users on slower networks don’t spend needless time waiting for content to load.