Advertisements (Further as "ads") can be enabled on channels, recordings (in Media section, “Recordings” folder) and media.
Each new ad added consist of 4 things:
- Url - Url to the VAST (Digital Video Ad Serving Template) file;
- Type - PRE (Before playback), MID (Somewhere in the middle) or POST (After playback);
- AD Type - VAST, VPAID or VMAP ad;
- AD integration - played built-in (none) or Google IMA.
- Offset - Only used for ads that have type set to MID and will specify at what point of total video length to play the ad.
Each media can have only 1 PRE and 1 POST urls specified, but unlimited amount of MID urls.
VMAP type contains timecodes and positions for ads, so no need to set these parameters in the settings.
For recordings and media, the MID type offset will be a percentage of the whole video length. I.e. 25% set on a video 60 seconds long will have an ad placed at 15 seconds.
For live channels the MID type offset will be a timecode (00:00:00) string after which an ad is shown. I.e. 00:00:30 set on a live channel will show an ad after 30 seconds of watching the live channel.
Ad predefined Advertisement Settings in the Settings tab - Players section. You will be redirected to the Player presets tab in our new Videosher portal.
Ad URLs in our system contain extra custom macros (Ones not specified in VAST specification) that will be replaced before the URL is called:
| String | Replaced by | Example |
|---|---|---|
[PAGE_ENCODED_URL] | Encoded URL of the page the media was embedded in | &page=[PAGE_ENCODED_URL] generates &page=http%3A%2F%2Fmediawebsite.com%2Fmediapage |
| [REQUEST_IP_COUNTRY] | Country code extracted from the request IP address based on Maxmind database | &country=[REQUEST_IP_COUNTRY] generates &country=US |
| [REQUEST_IP] | IP address of the user from the HTTP request | &ip=[REQUEST_IP] generates &ip=1.2.3.4 |
| [REQUEST_USER_AGENT] | User agent string from HTTP request | &ua=[REQUEST_USER_AGENT] generates &ua=Mozilla/5.0%20(Windows%20NT%2010.0;%20Win64;%20x64) %20AppleWebKit/537.36%20(KHTML,%20like%20Gecko) %20Chrome/83.0.4103.116%20Safari/537.36 |
| [REQUEST_HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] | User language setting from the request | &lang=[REQUEST_HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] generates &lang=lv |
| [ADKEYWORDS] | The value provided in embed URL as a parameter named "adkeywords". Example: https://embed.cloudycdn.services/client/media/aaa_asseturl/?player=regular&adkeywords=keyword1,keyword2 | &tags=[ADKEYWORDS] generates &tags=keyword1,keyword2 |