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.
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.
so .......... every 5 minute will not work , if i remember correctly Roku has a min 7 minute gap requirement , and as @Baradanikto said you need to define ad breaks in your json feed , without those you will have ads only at the beginning of your videos.
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?
you dont have to do anything with the feed , you need to ad the ad breaks into the feed , for every video you have in the feed and you want ads on.
i dont think that you can if you use the Vimeo feed.
i dont use that so i dont know , but what i know is that you cannot really do anything in / with a Vimeo feed. But you can ask Vimeo support about it , they might allow it and / or have a solution.
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
Thank you - I assume this needs to be added to every video in the feed?
that is correct
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).
you can find way better options than that wp plugin, @Baradanikto has a free software you can download
( i think the link is in his signature) or many other proper ways to build and manage a json feed ...