VMAP not working anymore on Samsung Tizen TV, LG TV, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

[Domenico Montalbano]

Hi,
we noticed that VMAP stopped working in our Google IMA integration running on Samsung Tizen TV, LG TV, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
Simple VAST with preroll still work fine, while VMAP are just silently skipped.

We've also notice that in PS4 the following lines of code started raising a runtime error

...
var c = new URL(a);
return c.searchParams.get("slotname") || c.searchParams.get("iu") || ""
...

This is because PS4 doesn't support HTTPSearchParams. We have solved the problem by adding a polyfill (but still VMAP are not working).
We don't know if you added these new line or just removed the polyfills for older browser.

We tested directly your IMA HTML5 Video Suite Inspector page on PS5 to check wether there was any problem in our implementation and, also there, only simple VAST with prerolls are working.
Note. We couldn't test that on PS4 due to the SearchParams issue mentioned above.

We also tried the debug version but the logs aren't proving any further information.

IMA inspector page with VMAP not working on TVs
https://googleads.github.io/googleads-ima-html5/vsi/?tag=https%253A%252F%252Fpubads.g.doubleclick.net%252Fgampad%252Fads%253Fiu%253D%252F21775744923%252Fexternal%252Fvmap_ad_samples%2526sz%253D640x480%2526cust_params%253Dsample_ar%25253Dpremidpostpod%2526ciu_szs%253D300x250%2526gdfp_req%253D1%2526ad_rule%253D1%2526output%253Dvmap%2526unviewed_position_start%253D1%2526env%253Dvp%2526impl%253Ds%2526cmsid%253D496%2526vid%253Dshort_onecue%2526correlator%253D

IMA inspector page with VAST and preroll only working fine on TVs
https://googleads.github.io/googleads-ima-html5/vsi/?tag=https%253A%252F%252Fpubads.g.doubleclick.net%252Fgampad%252Fads%253Fiu%253D%252F21775744923%252Fexternal%252Fsingle_ad_samples%2526sz%253D640x480%2526cust_params%253Dsample_ct%25253Dlinear%2526ciu_szs%253D300x250%25252C728x90%2526gdfp_req%253D1%2526output%253Dvast%2526unviewed_position_start%253D1%2526env%253Dvp%2526impl%253Ds%2526correlator%253D

Thanks for your support
Greetings Domenico

[IMA SDK]

Hi Domenico,

Thank you for contacting the IMA SDK support team.

The IMA SDK doesn't fully support Tizen, LG, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. so contact your account manager to learn more mentioned supports.

Thanks,
 

IMA SDK Team

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[2025-04-10 04:48:58Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01pSROm:ref" (ADR-00299369)

[Domenico Montalbano]

Hi,
the problem is that it was working before and now it's not working anymore.
Who's the account manager I should contact?
Thanks

[IMA SDK]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to us.

As mentioned earlier, IMA SDK does not support Tizen. 

It specifically refers to the Google Account Manager, usually someone who works directly with you through Google Ad Manager. Kindly attempt to utilize the provided hyperlink to engage with the Ad Manager Help Community for further assistance. 

Thanks,
 

IMA SDK Team

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[2025-04-10 13:55:04Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01pSROm:ref" (ADR-00299369)

[Domenico Montalbano]

[UPDATE]

We noticed that maybe the only problem is that those devices are not targeted anymore in the vmap ad examples.

In fact for example for this URL

https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?iu=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&ciu_szs=300x250&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=1&output=vmap&unviewed_position_start=1&env=vp&impl=s&cmsid=496&vid=short_onecue&correlator=

whe have those Ads

<vmap:VMAP xmlns:vmap="http://www.iab.net/videosuite/vmap" version="1.0">

<vmap:AdBreak timeOffset="start" breakType="linear" breakId="preroll">
<vmap:AdSource id="preroll-ad-1" allowMultipleAds="false" followRedirects="true">
<vmap:AdTagURI templateType="vast3">
<![CDATA[ https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&ciu_szs=300x250&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&url=&unviewed_position_start=1&output=xml_vast3&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&useragent=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+15.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/135.0.0.0+Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)&vad_type=linear&vpos=preroll&pod=1&ppos=1&lip=true&min_ad_duration=0&max_ad_duration=30000&vrid=1270234&cmsid=496&video_doc_id=short_onecue&kfa=0&tfcd=0 ]]>
</vmap:AdTagURI>
</vmap:AdSource>
</vmap:AdBreak>
<vmap:AdBreak timeOffset="00:00:15.000" breakType="linear" breakId="midroll-1">
<vmap:AdSource id="midroll-1-ad-1" allowMultipleAds="false" followRedirects="true">
<vmap:AdTagURI templateType="vast3">
<![CDATA[ https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&ciu_szs=300x250&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&url=&unviewed_position_start=1&output=xml_vast3&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&cue=15000&useragent=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+15.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/135.0.0.0+Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)&vad_type=linear&vpos=midroll&pod=2&mridx=1&rmridx=1&ppos=1&min_ad_duration=0&max_ad_duration=30000&vrid=1270234&cmsid=496&video_doc_id=short_onecue&kfa=0&tfcd=0 ]]>
</vmap:AdTagURI>
</vmap:AdSource>
</vmap:AdBreak>
<vmap:AdBreak timeOffset="00:00:15.000" breakType="linear" breakId="midroll-1">
<vmap:AdSource id="midroll-1-ad-2" allowMultipleAds="false" followRedirects="true">
<vmap:AdTagURI templateType="vast3">
<![CDATA[ https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&ciu_szs=300x250&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&url=&unviewed_position_start=1&output=xml_vast3&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&cue=15000&useragent=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+15.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/135.0.0.0+Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)&vad_type=linear&vpos=midroll&pod=2&mridx=1&rmridx=1&ppos=2&min_ad_duration=0&max_ad_duration=30000&vrid=1270234&cmsid=496&video_doc_id=short_onecue&kfa=0&tfcd=0 ]]>
</vmap:AdTagURI>
</vmap:AdSource>
</vmap:AdBreak>
<vmap:AdBreak timeOffset="00:00:15.000" breakType="linear" breakId="midroll-1">
<vmap:AdSource id="midroll-1-ad-3" allowMultipleAds="false" followRedirects="true">
<vmap:AdTagURI templateType="vast3">
<![CDATA[ https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&ciu_szs=300x250&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&url=&unviewed_position_start=1&output=xml_vast3&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&cue=15000&useragent=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+15.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/135.0.0.0+Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)&vad_type=linear&vpos=midroll&pod=2&mridx=1&rmridx=1&ppos=3&lip=true&min_ad_duration=0&max_ad_duration=30000&vrid=1270234&cmsid=496&video_doc_id=short_onecue&kfa=0&tfcd=0 ]]>
</vmap:AdTagURI>
</vmap:AdSource>
</vmap:AdBreak>
<vmap:AdBreak timeOffset="end" breakType="linear" breakId="postroll">
<vmap:AdSource id="postroll-ad-1" allowMultipleAds="false" followRedirects="true">
<vmap:AdTagURI templateType="vast3">
<![CDATA[ https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=/21775744923/external/vmap_ad_samples&sz=640x480&ciu_szs=300x250&cust_params=sample_ar%3Dpremidpostpod&url=&unviewed_position_start=1&output=xml_vast3&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&useragent=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+15.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/135.0.0.0+Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)&vad_type=linear&vpos=postroll&pod=3&ppos=1&lip=true&min_ad_duration=0&max_ad_duration=30000&vrid=1270234&cmsid=496&video_doc_id=short_onecue&kfa=0&tfcd=0 ]]>
</vmap:AdTagURI>
</vmap:AdSource>
</vmap:AdBreak>
</vmap:VMAP>

but on TV when downloading each  vmap:AdTagURI  I can see in the network an empty response, while on browser we have a valid xml response.

To solve it, I just copied both the main XML and all the inner AD XMLs in static files in our dev server and, pointing to them, it's now working again on TVs.

Is this something wanted on your side.
We can modify all our testcases to make them work again but maybe your intention is to restore TV targeting for sample ADs.

Thanks