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VAST - the Video Ad Serving Template, is an Interactive Advertising Bureau specification for inserting advertisements into Flash, HTML5 and native video players.

VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a specification released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) that sets a standard for communication requirements between ad servers and video players.

It is a data structure declared using XML.

VAST has 6 versions: 1.0 (deprecated), 1.1 (deprecated),2.0, 3.0 and current version is 4.0.

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Need Step by step instructions adding VideoJs VAST plugin

I'm trying to figure out how to add a pre-roll or VAST ads plugin into my VideoJS player but don't know how. I know there has to be files uploaded to my server to be called but I can't find them and the documentation in the plugin below is very…
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Pre-roll on YouTube video using video.js

I'm trying to use pre-roll ads on youtube videos on the website I'm working on using the latest (4.11.4) version of video.js. Youtube vidoes are played thanks to the videojs-youtube plugin I found on github https://github.com/eXon/videojs-youtube ,…
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JW Player: What edition do I need to show ads?

I am not sure with what version of JW Player I can serve ads. When I go to pricing: http://www.jwplayer.com/pricing/ only the Entreprise edition has the Ads feature listed. Does that mean to serve ads through JW Player you need an Enterprise…
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How to track clicks on VAST 3.0 wrapped creatives?

My server returns VAST 3.0 XML with wrapper referring to 3rd party creative: MyAdSystem http://myserver/impression_tracker …
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How to embed VAST with audio web player?

I'm building a web music player. I'm using a https://howlerjs.com as a player library. I need to embed Ads to the music player. I get a tag url like this https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?iu=...... I've been searching via Internet for 2…
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Integrate VAST in plyr Video Player

DEVELOPER LEVEL - Beginner Have recently started programming. Only Familiar with HTM/CSS/JS & NodeJS. THE PROJECT - I'm using this ↓ code to play files using plyr Video player in my website. LINK TO CODEPEN (The below snippet is very lengthy,…
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CAF receiver: VMAP Ads and Subtitles

Android app creates MediaLoadRequestData with MediaInfo object and loads it to RemoteMediaClient. CAF receiver plays the video properly and shows the ads when needed. Issue occurs when I try changing the subtitles using Expanded Controls on my…
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VPAID JavaScript Creatives

We are working with VAST 3.0 ads for ages. Recently we started receiving VPAID JavaScript creatives instead of XML VAST. We are okay to add the support VPAID in the platform native player: Our understanding was that platform native player should…
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How can I track VAST events with multiple pixels?

I have a linear preroll add like below. I'd like to track each event (like "start", "skip" etc.) with multiple pixels. Specifically: one for my purposes and one provided by the client. How do I accomplish that? I did try inserting multiple
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Cross-Origin Request Blocked: (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing)

I am trying to validate a VAST tag in different validators. It throws me this error: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xml. (Reason: CORS header…
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How to use ad impression event with videojs_5 vast-vpaid plugin

How can i track ad impression using videojs vast-vpaid plugin? Ad impression will always be fired when the ad started? Is there a way to track ads duration events? (first-quartile,second,etc) Will it be different tracking event for VPAID ads? This…
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VAST : How to call a Vpaid Javascript and a Video Ad at the same time?

I am trying to write a VAST XML file that can launch at the same time (approximately) 2 things : 1 Advertising Video 1 VPAID JavaScript file I tried a lot of configurations but unsuccessfully. Here are 3 examples I am currently trying to get…
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Google Chrome Auto Pausing Flash Ads

Since Google Chrome version 45, flash ads are automatically paused if they are "not important". When talking about VAST ads played in JWPlayer, how do you determine whether an ad is "important" enough to allow it to autoplay (minimum player size,…
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How to create a Javascript video overlay with VAST VPAID?

I am currently trying to learn the basics of VAST ("Video Ad Serving Template") and VPAID ("Video Player-Ad Interface Definition"). My goal is to show an overlay ("widget") over a video in a VAST/VPAID-enabled video player (like Flowplayer with…
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Is there a way to waterfall from IMA to VAST ads in jwplayer 6?

I would like to serve a IMA ad but "waterfall" to VAST on error. Is it posible to do it? As far as I know when you initialize a jwplayer you must set the client ("vast" or "googima"), so we cant change the client in the "onAdError" event. Any option…
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