VAST Vpaid on iOS

[Chris]

Hello, 

I am working on a HTML5 player, currently experiencing issues with VAST VPAID ADS. 

I would like to know how to identify if there is a JAVASCRIPT one (compatible) or not, as on some tags the ads are not playing. 

Thank you, 

Chris

[Chris]

How can I detect the VPAID filetype (JS or flash) before loading it?

Thanks

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

HI Chris,

It's only possible to detect the VPAID file type once it's already been loaded. If you're not able to use Flash VPAID, you can call setDisableFlashAds(true), which will stop the SDK from trying to load Flash ads. There's currently an issue with this method, but we have a fix ready for release with the next version of the SDK. It should be working again soon.

You might also be interested in setting the mimeTypes property of your adsRenderingSettings object, which will allow you to prioritize certain file types. Though you should note that it's not possible to prioritize VPAID ads.

Let me know if you continue to have issues.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

[Cristi Morof]

Hello 

I am trying to run vpaid ads on Safari iOS - apple mobile and ipads.

Need to detect them before loading, but since you are telling me is not possible, how can i identify this somehow that after loading i can trigger an event? Or if is not loading, it will throw an AdError? 

Thanks.

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[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Chris,

If you want to detect the ad type once the ad is loaded, you can use the getContentType() method. This method is available after the START event. To use it in the event callback, it would look like this:

 do_something( adEvent.getAd().getContentType() );

If you're not able to load an ad, it will cause an AdError event, or in some cases a Log event. Which event is triggered will depend on whether the error is considered fatal or non-fatal. For information about the distinction between fatal and non-fatal errors, you can check out this blog post.

Let me know if you continue to have issues.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

[Cristi Morof]

Thank you Chris,

Will try that right now.

Great feedback.

C

[Cristi Morof]

please take a look at this on iOS.

The ad keeps blocking 

cannot figure the issue

http://demos.rezonence.com/publishers/Rezonence-PublisherBlog-ZC.html?aid=r3z/CM/test1&cid=Demos/Alt/rezonence.com

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi,

I don't see any video playback, or any ads on the page that you've sent me. Can you provide more information to help me better understand your issue? Detailed steps for reproducing the troublesome behavior would be very helpful.

Thank you,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

[Iulian]

Hello back 

So I've been testing the tag in Charles (it came to that :) ), the order after the play button is tapped is this : 

pagead2> rb - appnexus > CDN appnexus  > ad2.googlesynd. servers >

thaen it "hangs". So i believe it's something related to the play event not firing at start when the media file is taken for "play". If i fire a standard non vpaid - linear one it works. 

Will try with a new media file too, just to be sure is not the video file the culprit...

Everything works on desktop, this is iOS issue on VPAID tags.

Also, please have in mind i am running simple VPAID 2 video tags (so no html5 javascript ones at all)

Thank you for your support,

I

[Cristi Morof]

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi,

I was able to reproduce this behavior in our HTML5 Advanced Sample. I'm going to report this to the rest of the team and will let you know as soon as I have an update. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

IMA SDK Team

On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 10:17:01 AM UTC-5, Iulian wrote:

[Cristi Morof]

Hello back, 

On my side:

- I will test with different video formats, to see if there is any issue related with that. 

- Also,  will try to use another tag, directly from DFP to see if i encounter the same behaviour. 

Please let me know if you find the problem, 

I want to nail this down as I have a lot of inventory coming and want to serve via IMA3.

Thanks a lot, 

Chris

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[Cristi Morof]

Hello back, 

I have made a test earlier with a different media, is still not serving VPAID video through iOS. 

If you want a tag to test I can provide a fully transcoded one with different sources.

Thank you, 

Chris

[Chris Feldman (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi,

As of this morning, the tag is serving fine to our HTML5 Advanced Sample on iOS Safari. Are you still experiencing issues? If not, please test with our sample and compare your own implementation to ours. Likely there is an issue with how you're using the SDK.

Regards,

Chris Feldman
IMA SDK Team