Roku Direct Publisher

[Adventurist]

I am using Google Ads Manager to advertise on a Direct Publishing account. My VAST publisher tag works but only 1 video is playing at the beginning of each video. I want the ads to play every 5 minutes. I used "vpos=midroll&videoad_start_delay=300000" , but this has no effect. I am thinking there may be other errors in my tag. Can someone assist as I don't see how to create this in Google Ad Manager.

[Baradanikto]

If you're using Direct Publisher, and, you've developed a JSON feed file, you should be specifying ad breaks within the 'Content' object of the feed.

[Adventurist]

Do you have a source for how to break up the json feed?

I assume that cannot be done right through the Vimeo feed, but I will have to redirect it to a website and do that there?

[37mediagroup]

As stated the coding for the ad break times need to be included into the json feed, within the 'content' section, like so:

adBreaks: ["00:15:00", "00:30:00", "00:45:00"],

Otherwise by default I think Roku just makes pre-roll an ad break. Not sure if it can be added into a Vimeo feed or if you can manually adjust their feeds. Otherwise, could you just copy & paste the code and host it elsewhere, then simply add the code in.

You can read more about it here (also CTRL+F search for 'adbreaks' elsewhere) and yes they do need to be 7 minutes apart  https://developer.roku.com/docs/specs/direct-publisher-feed-specs/json-dp-spec.md#content-properties

[Adventurist]

Thank you - I assume this needs to be added to every video in the feed?

[Adventurist]

I think I will need to import the videos into the website from Vimeo:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smart-tv/

This way I can alter the feed (I believe) and add custom categories (which Vimeo does not seem to offer anymore).

[sattun]

Hi @Adventurist 

Our OTTfeed.com platform supports custom Ad breaks, and you can import your videos metadata from Vimeo pro account. Take a look at https://OTTfeed.com and let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers, 

[lidepeng139]

why my monetization settings is error state，

i can't set the right adserver url，can you give me a sample, ths

[sattun]

Which ad server are you using? 

On SpotX page you will find "Example of a properly formatted and complete connected TV ad request to SpotX":

https://developer.spotxchange.com/content/local/docs/integrations/VASTIntegrations.md

[lidepeng139]

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