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Outstream Ad Unit General Settings


1.0 | Ad Unit Settings

  • Title: The name of your Ad Unit
  • Code: The reference code for the ad unit.  If nothing is entered, it defaults to the title.
  • Description (optional): Used to describe the Ad Unit.

Ad Unit Settings

2.0 | CTA Settings

  • CTA text: Add text for a Call to Action that displays on your ad while it’s playing.
  • Midplay CTA: Enable CTA text midplay by selecting “Show” option.  When Google’s IMA service enforces their own ‘learn more’ button, your CTA will be positioned to cover it.
  • CTA position: You can either place the CTA at the top right or top left of the player.
  • Exitscreen CTA: Enable Call to Action on the exit screen by selecting “Show” option in the drop down menu. Use CTA background color and CTA highlight color to customise the Call to Action at the end of your ad.

CTA Settings

3.0 | InArticle Settings

  • Sticky options: Enabling this keeps the inArticle player in view by either sticking it to the top or bottom of the page or floating to a corner, which increases viewability and completion rates.
  • Width when floating: The width of the player when floating in pixels. This can be a number or javascript code returning a number. Example: $(window).width() / 3
  • Minimum device width to enable floating: This option allows you to only float the player when the device width is greater than this minimum pixel width.
  • Always float: The player will not appear within the content and will always float to the location specified here.
  • Hide floating close button: The close button will not appear whilst the player is floating.
  • Responsive Player Sizing: Allows you to overrule the width and height and make the player responsive to the block of content the video will open up in.
  • Aspect Ratio: By default, a responsive player will take the width of the player and calculate the height based on the aspect ratio of the video being displayed. Using this setting, you can overrule this to always scale the player to a certain aspect ratio. If you do this, we recommend 16:9 as it is the most common aspect ratio for video ads.
  • Width: Use a percentage for a responsive playout (eg 100%). You can set this to pixel width using the drop-down arrow.
  • Maximum width: The Maximum width in pixels that the player can open as.
  • InView Margin: The percentage of the height of the player that needs to be visible before the player is considered to be “InView”.
  • Placeholder background color: Sets the background color for the placeholder viewers will see when there is no ad playing or after an ad has finished. This is only applicable if you choose to not collapse the player.
  • Placeholder text color: Sets the text color for the placeholder viewers will see when there is no ad playing.
  • Placeholder text: Freeform text that will appear in the center of the placeholder. You can input HTML here to influence the styling.
  • Allow Skipping: Allow the user to skip the ad after “x” seconds.
  • Auto play: Ad will play as soon as the VAST has loaded, whether in view of the user or not.

InArticle Settings

4.0 | Display Settings

  • Controls visibility: By default, the control bar is hidden on play and on pause. You can also enable the control bar to always show or hide.
  • Show play/pause button: Enables play/pause button on the control bar.
  • Show mute/unmute button: Enables mute/unmute button.
  • Show progress bar: By default, the progress bar is enabled. You can use this setting to disable the control bar. If you do, previously enabled play/show and/or mute/unmute buttons will remain enabled.
  • Progress bar color: Change the color of the progress bar.
  • Text commercial time remaining: Displays text to announce the remaining time of the ad.
  • Text above player: To have text display above the player, type it here.
  • Text for player close button: To have text for the close button, type it here.

Display Settings

5.0 | In & Out View

  • Start Collapsed: Start the player collapsed (closed) and only expand it if media plays. Leave unchecked if you would like the player to always start open.
  • Collapse on end: Collapse (close) the player when content is completed. Leave this box unchecked to have the player remain open when the ad finishes playing. The endscreen will show an image or the placeholder design depending on how your placeholder settings.
  • In View Action: Determine what action the player takes when the player enters the view of the user.
  • Out View Action: When the player exits view, determine what action the player will take.

In & out view

6.0 | Mouse

  • Mouse In Action: When the user hovers their mouse cursor over the player, determine what action the player will take.
  • Mouse out Action: When the user hovers their mouse cursor out of the player, determine what action the player will take.

Mouse

7.0 | Placement Options

  • Distance from Top: Adjusts how far from the top of the screen the player can display.
  • Distance from Bottom: Adjusts how far from the bottom of the screen the player can display.
  • Placement Option: This section allows you to choose where on the page your script should display.  The default is “At Script Position”, meaning that the script displays exactly where it’s placed in the source of the page.  Additionally, you can choose to place the player elsewhere on the page by using dynamic targeting.  Read more about that here.
  • Add (css) clear:both to player wrapper: Add the css style ‘clear:both’ to the player wrapper.  This can be useful in situations where the player can’t detect the correct width to use.

Placement options

8.0 | Miscellaneous

  • Preload line items: Allows you to start calling all VAST URL’s in the line items at the first user interaction in order to enable faster playback once the user arrives at the player position. Without this option enabled, the first VAST call will be done when the player is “InView”. We recommend always checking this option to avoid any latency issues.
  • Custom Javascript Code: Custom javascript code that will be executed when the player is placed. You can use the references $$api (the player API) and $$wrapper (the player wrapper element) in your code.
  • Passback Code: Custom javascript code that will be executed when the player has finished playing an ad or no ad was found. Here you can pass back to either a display or video campaign.

Miscellaneous options

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