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.

[AaronMSpelling]

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.

[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?

[AaronMSpelling]

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.

[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?

[AaronMSpelling]

that is correct 

[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).

[AaronMSpelling]

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 ...