Playing audio-only ads in IMA HTML5 SDK (or Flash SDK)

[Arnaud Leyder]

Hi, 

I need to play audio-only ads with the IMA SDK. I see here: https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/compatibility that it should work.

I have a sample VAST 2 tag which I built: https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/demos/audio-ads/audio-vast.xml

I cannot get this to work with my player or the Video Suite Inspector:

HTML5 logs:

(6:22:53 PM) Ads loaded.

(6:22:53 PM) Ad event: loaded

(6:22:53 PM) Ad error: AdError 403: Linear assets were found in the VAST ad response, but none of them matched the video player's capabilities.

Flash logs: 

(6:23:25 PM) Ads requested

(6:23:25 PM) adsManagerLoaded

(6:23:25 PM) adError Ad error (code 403): No media found in the VAST ad.

(6:23:25 PM) Error: No media found in the VAST ad.

The VAST tag should be compliant because I can play it here: https://epom.com/vast-inspector?tag=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiantmediaplayer.com%2Fdemos%2Faudio-ads%2Faudio-vast.xml&type=linear

My question is how to make it work with IMA SDK HTML5 or Flash? Preferably with the HTML5 SDK.

Is there a thing that audio-only ads will only play in HTML5 audio tag or should it work with HTML5 video tag as well?

Thanks

Arnaud

[Tyler Sidell (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Arnaud, 

You are correct that the HTML5 supports audio ads. The audio is not playing in this particular use case due to the mimetype specification. Change "audio/x-mpeg-3" to "audio/mpeg" and that should work. I've tried this change out in our Video Suite Inspector and was able to get the audio ad to play.

Thanks,
Tyler Sidell
IMA SDK Team