Admob mistakens Slovakia for Russia
mobile advertising September 29th, 2008Little bugs and issues in applications are a thing that people who work with developers on a daily basis are common with. You learn how to fix them, laugh at th
em, finnish them off. A very respected person in the industry has informed me about a mistake that is really worth a laugh, but the issue is it is for one of the largest mobile advertising company worldwide - Admob.
The company has mistaken two European countries, one of them being quite major, on their regular map: Slovakia (population: 5 million) on the map with Russia (population: 141 million people). See map below.

Admob is a leading company in the area of mobile advertising with around 3 billion ad impressions served every month and almost 50 billion delivered so far.
It pops up in my head that I would like to think that a company that has been invested tens of millions of dollars of VC money should be able to do bett
er than that. Well but everyone makes mistakes, and this is not one that would take revenue away or harm any of the business, but a nice story for a Monday morning.
Good luck to Admob, they’ve been doing a great job on the market so far, and hope they fix this little mistake.
Not to forget, here is the map screenshot:

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