---
title: "Using AdMob in your iOS Games"
subtitle: "A complete visual guide from registration to integration"
date: 2015-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2015/05/using-admob-in-phonegap-tutorial
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Using AdMob in your iOS Games

*A complete visual guide from registration to integration*

![image](using-admob-in-phonegap-tutorial.png)

Emanuele Feronato writes: "In a previous post I showed you how to go from HTML5 to iOS native game with PhoneGap in order to publish your HTML5 games on the App Store, now it’s time to see how to include ads into your free game.

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know I had a lot of trouble in including ads into my PhoneGap games, mostly because I was trying to use the official Leadbolt plugin which did not work as it seems to be a little outdated – in their tutorial they also say to use phonegap local plugin add when local is deprecated.

So, thanks to some suggestions from loyal readers and fans I really want to thank, I was pointed to AdMob and the whole process was really easy, let me explain how to do that."

[Read the full tutorial](http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2015/05/04/how-to-include-admob-ads-in-your-html5-ios-game-using-phonegap/)

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