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VAST - the Video Ad Serving Template, is an Interactive Advertising Bureau specification for inserting advertisements into Flash, HTML5 and native video players.

VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a specification released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) that sets a standard for communication requirements between ad servers and video players.

It is a data structure declared using XML.

VAST has 6 versions: 1.0 (deprecated), 1.1 (deprecated),2.0, 3.0 and current version is 4.0.

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Example of ad using VPAID JavaScript API

I'm struggling to find an example of an HTML5 VAST/VPAID ad. IAB's VPAID spec doesn't include a good example on how to use the JavaScript VPAID APIs.
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Difference between VAST, VPAID and VMAP

For some reason I need to know difference between VAST,VPAID and VMAP. I know both are video ad deliver tags, these are following IAB standard, but I need to know clear difference between these three. Any help is appreciated.
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Run VAST without (a standard) Player?

An answer to this question will hugely be appreciated! Anyway, it is the first time I see a VAST tag. Now, the idea is to run/implement it without having or using a regular player. Is this possible to do just with using JavaScript events? And how…
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VAST 3.0 Video Ad Server Examples?

There are alot of Vast 2.0 Players and a few 3.0 complaint players, but in the iab documentation for vast 3.0, there are not alot of direct definitions or examples on sendind ad data as an ad server. Are there any website with solid examples for…
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How to display VAST ads in my android app?

I would like to display video Ads in my app based on VAST. Can anybody please guide me on how to do that ?
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Attribute 'xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation' is not allowed to appear in element 'VAST'

I have VAST XML and validating it against vast 2.0.1 xsd. It throws following error:- Attribute 'xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation' is not allowed to appear in element 'VAST' My VAST XML:-
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Is there a plugin for VPAID support for video.js?

Is there a plugin for VPAID support for video.js? I tried the video.js VAST plugin, but it doesn't support netsonic or Liverail VPAID into the VAST wrapper.
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VPAID ad unit in javascript

Does anyone have an example of a VPAID ad unit built in javascript?
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using VideoJS VAST plugin without video content

I want to display ads with VAST ad tag and with a HTML5 player. I'm currently trying to use videoJS with Vast Ads Plugin and I'm noticing I can't get the videoJS player to work without having a video content (video element with a src attribute for…
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Building Kaltura HTML5 Video Player with AdSupport for VAST/VPAID

I want to use the Kaltura standalone HTML5 player with the VAST/VPAID ad support modules, but I'm at a loss. I'm not at all familiar with the Kaltura architecture, and thought I've found lots of detail and discussion in the Kaltura support…
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GoogleIMA: 1009 The VAST response document is empty

THE SITUATION: I am trying to display preroll ads videos on my app. I have two different adTagUrl. One works fine and the preroll ad is displayed. The other doesn't, and I get an empty VAST response instead. I thought there may be something wrong…
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Is there a way to call javascript in VAST before playing video?

I have a requirement to call an API to my server from the device before playing the media file in VAST Tag. I am able to load the javascript with
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What are the VAST versions used

I am seeing following VAST versions are available VAST 1.0 (deprecated) VAST 1.1 (deprecated) VAST 2.0 - http://www.iab.com/guidelines/digital-video-ad-serving-template-vast-2-0/ VAST 2.0.1 VAST 3.0 -…
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Pre-roll on YouTube video using video.js

I'm trying to use pre-roll ads on youtube videos on the website I'm working on using the latest (4.11.4) version of video.js. Youtube vidoes are played thanks to the videojs-youtube plugin I found on github https://github.com/eXon/videojs-youtube ,…
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JW Player: What edition do I need to show ads?

I am not sure with what version of JW Player I can serve ads. When I go to pricing: http://www.jwplayer.com/pricing/ only the Entreprise edition has the Ads feature listed. Does that mean to serve ads through JW Player you need an Enterprise…
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