Support IAB VAST <Error> element

[Oren Melamed]

"The VAST <Error> element is optional but if included, the video player must send a request to the URI provided when the VAST response returns an empty InLine response after a chain of one or more wrapper ads"

http://www.iab.net/media/file/VASTv3.0.pdf (page 56).

Does IMA3 SDK supports this?

I have tested an empty VAST ad tag and am not seeing the error URL being sent.

The adTag i'm using looks like this(The actual URI is in my VAST is real, this is just for example) :

<VAST version="3.0">

<Error>

<![CDATA[https://myErrorUrlHere]]>

</Error>

</VAST>

Thanks,

Oren M.

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Oren,

The VAST <Error> element is supported, just not in the way that you're using it. Like it says in the passage you quoted, "if included, the video player must send a request to the URI provided when the VAST response returns an empty InLine response after a chain of one or more wrapper ads." The tag you provided does not use any wrappers. 

See below for an example of a VAST response that will ping the error URI: 

<VAST version="3">
  <Ad>
    <Wrapper>
      <Error><![CDATA[https://www.example.com/error1]]></Error>
      <AdSystem>Your System</AdSystem>
           <AdTitle>Test ad</AdTitle>
           <Description>Dummy ad response</Description>
      <VASTAdTagURI><![CDATA[ SOME AD TG ]]></VASTAdTagURI>
    </Wrapper>
  </Ad>
</VAST>

When viewed in the Video Suite Inspector, the above tag will attempt to ping https://www.example.com/error1.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

[Oren Melamed]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for replying.

If you look at IAB's vast standard they state in page 56, section 2.4.2.4:

No ad response

When the ad server does not or cannot return an Ad, the VAST response should contain only the root
<VAST> element with optional <Error> element, as shown below:

<VAST version=”3.0”>
<Error>

<![CDATA[http://adserver.com/noad.gif]>
</Error>

</VAST>

The VAST <Error> element is optional but if included, the video player must send a request to the URI

provided when the VAST response returns an empty InLine response after a chain of one or more

wrapper ads. If an [ERRORCODE] macro is included, the video player should substitute with error code
303.

Besides the VAST level <Error> resource file, no other tracking resource requests are required of the
video player in a no-ad response in either the Inline Ad or any Wrapper ads. 

So your example might also be valid, but this one is as well, standard wise only of course.

So the question is if you support this standard clause?

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[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Oren,

The response that you're referring to is not currently supported by our SDK. You'll need to use a wrapper (as detailed in my previous message) if you want the error URI to be pinged.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

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