Companion Ads for Mobile (Android/iOS)

[Paul Dickerson]

I'm new to Ads in general and I'm working an issue where our companion Ads are not displaying on mobile but work perfectly fine on desktop browsers. 

As far as I can tell it has something to do with the HTML5 video player because on desktop we play the videos in a flash player. 

Can someone kinda walk me through the steps that are needed to make companion Ads update on mobile devices?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[Shawn Busolits (IMA SDK Team)]

Hey Paul,

Which SDK are you using? You can take a look at our guide for implementing companion ads in Flash and HTML5 if you're using one of those SDKs. If you're using one of our native SDKs we have separate guides for companions on the working with ads pages for Android and iOS. If you have any further questions let us know!

Thanks,

Shawn Busolits

IMA SDK Team

[Paul Dickerson]

Thanks for the response Shawn. Maybe that's the first thing to figure out, which SDK we are actually using, if any. From our current code we may be using an older google service but I know it works with our Brightcove flash player and not with the HTML5 video fallback when browsing on a mobile device. Below is the only code we have for updating the companion Ad slot when when prerolls or postroll come through the BC Flash player. 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.googletagservices.com/tag/static/google_services.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

    /**** Create AD Slot and get Video List ****/

    var adSlot1 = googletag.defineSlot('URL', [300, 250], 'comp-ad');

    adSlot1.set("ad_type", "image");

    adSlot1.addService(googletag.companionAds());

    googletag.enableServices();

</script>

We are not using any native device SDK's so we would need to figure out a solution for browser interfaces only. 

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[Shawn Busolits (IMA SDK Team)]

Hey Paul,

Since Flash isn't supported on mobile, I'd assume you're using HTML5. Are you using HTML5 fallback through the Brightcove player, or are you using your own player for HTML5? If the former this is probably something you would need to talk to Brightcove about. If the latter, I'd recommend checking out our guide for displaying companions with GPT (which is what you're doing based on the sample you provided). If you need any additional help let us know!

Thanks,

Shawn Busolits

IMA SDK Team

[Harsh Yadav]

Hi Shawn,

I am using the native android SDK and trying to display the companion ads using the provided sample, however no luck.

Can you tell how to bind the companion ad slots returned from the ad server to the view?

Thanks,

Harsh

[Shawn Busolits (IMA SDK Team)]

Hey Harsh,

Are you working with Paul or is this a separate issue? To display companion ads, you should just need to follow the steps under "3. Create AdDisplayContainer to display your ads" here. Can you confirm that your VAST response is returning companions of the size you specify to the SDK? You can test your tag with our Video Suite Inspector. If all of that fails, do you have some sample code you could send me to take a look at?

Thanks,

Shawn Busolits

IMA SDK Team

[Harsh Yadav]

Thanks for the quick reply Shawn.

I was able to fix it based on your reply that the size from the response should match the one specified in the code.

Many thanks!

Regards,

Harsh

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