Force skip button

[Ralf]

Hi,

we're working with some agencies that use their own ad server to host ads and usually these don't support the VAST 3 skipoffset field or don't support VAST 3 at all. However most of the orders that we get have a 20-30 sec creative and should be skippable after 15 seconds. When there is no ad podding going on we can use AdsManager.stop() to implement a skip button that works even then AdsManager.getAdSkippableState() is false. But when using ad pods this would kill the whole pod and directly jump to the content. The 2nd ad in the pod would not show up.

Is there a way to force the AdsManager.skip() function to work when AdsManager.getAdSkippableState() returns false? We tried overwriting getAdSkippableState to always return true but it seems like AdsManager.skip() is doing some other checks to prevent skipping in these cases.

Thanks for your help

Ralf

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Ralf,

Thank you for reaching out to the IMA SDK Team. The behavior you are looking for is not currently supported. I suggest taking a look at our Ad Serving Guidelines under the section covering In-Stream non-skippable video ads.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team