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YouTube ads never show no matter what the player style or what the video.

Actual YouTube version: 10.18.55 YouTube Android Player API: 1.2.1

I remember that I saw some ads while was developing my app. Now I can't see any ad after hundreds of tests. This is actually a problem, because my app gets constantly suspended or rejected because of "unauthorized use" of YouTube API. Google Play Support Team thinks that I disable the ads somehow. Please confirm the issue.

Artem Semenov
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  • Have you tried with other videos as well? Take any song from VEVO on YouTube and try with that, ads should appear. – Sebastiano Jun 05 '15 at 12:26
  • @dextor, Just tried 7 top VEVO videos - nothing – Artem Semenov Jun 05 '15 at 12:57
  • Are you using `CHROMELESS` as the `PlayerStyle`? If so, try using the default one. In addition, what device are you testing this on? – Sebastiano Jun 05 '15 at 12:58
  • If the Android Player API is anything like the [YouTube iOS Player Helper](https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper), then ads aren't supported. See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26534553/displaying-youtube-video-ads-with-youtube-iframe/30005742#30005742 – JAL Jun 05 '15 at 13:35
  • @dextor, Earlier I used CHROMLESS, now I use MINIMAL as default but tested on DEFAULT as well. I use HTC One m7, Moto Razr, Nexus 7(2) and Samsung Tab S. Google Play Support Team was not able to see ads too. – Artem Semenov Jun 05 '15 at 13:36
  • @JAL, YouTube Android Player API is a native player, not a WebView. – Artem Semenov Jun 05 '15 at 13:41
  • @ArtemSemenov we still don't know the internals of it. YouTube could be blocking ads in the player, we don't know. – JAL Jun 05 '15 at 13:41
  • Do we have any good news. I face the same issue here. Need help, please! – Ricky May 16 '16 at 04:10
  • when i integrate and add youtubeplayer.jar in my android app for playing v=Id youtube videos in youtube view playing fine.when video is played its showing fullscreen mode and youTube app icons on that youtube video how to disable all icons on youtube video please help me.setshowFullscreenmode(false) for remove full screen mode off what about youtube player redirection please help me – Harsha Feb 07 '17 at 13:07

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Same thing happened to me when I was playing video with YoutubeStandalonePlayer API with autoPlay flag set to true. Loading a video with autoplay set to false fixed the issue.

Michael Tedla
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