 <p>You need to retain a copy of the AdMob AdViewController as Admob no longer does this itself.</p> <p>In your viewcontroller.h add something like</p> <pre><code>IBOutlet AdViewController *localAdViewController; </code></pre> <p>inside the @interface section, and add</p> <pre><code>@property (nonatomic, retain) AdViewController *localAdViewController; </code></pre> <p>afterwards.</p> <p>Then add a link in IB from File's owner to your localAdViewController in AdViewController.</p> <p>Should work fine then on.</p>