# Video Advertising

1. [Global Advertisements](#global-a-dvertisements)
2. [Custom Advertisements](#custom-a-dvertisements)
3. [Personal Advertisements](#personal-a-dvertisements)

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#### Global Advertisements

{% hint style="success" %}
Since version 2.7.2, if you’re seeking a straightforward method to display ads on all videos, you can set a global Ad Tag by navigating to **Customize > Theme Options > Advertising** section.
{% endhint %}

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#### Custom Advertisements

To enable the display of custom ads, it is essential that your WordPress website is equipped to support an HTTPS connection. Additionally, the activation of CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a prerequisite by adding the following rules to the beginning of the htaccess file.

```
# BEGIN Advertising
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN Advertising" and "END Advertising" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<ifmodule mod_headers.c="">
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true
</ifmodule>
# END Advertising
```

**OR:**&#x20;

```
# BEGIN Advertising
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN Advertising" and "END Advertising" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<ifmodule mod_headers.c="">
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://imasdk.googleapis.com"
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials true
</ifmodule>
# END Advertising
```

The display of ads might be influenced when an adblocker is activated.

#### Add AdTag

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Navigate to **Advertising > Ad Tags > Add New**

1. **Add Title**: Enter a custom title
2. **Ad Server**: Select the Ad server you want to run:
   1. **Self Ad**: run your own Ad, video and image media types are supported.
   2. **VAST-compliant Ad Server**: run Ads from another Ad server such as Google Ad Manager, Google AdSense network, or any VAST-compliant ad server.
3. **Target URL**: Set a custom target URL which will be opened when clicking on the Ad, this option only supports **Self Ad**
4. **Ad Type**: Linear or NonLinear
5. **Duration**: Duration of your video Ad
6. Upload your own video files from WordPress media, multiple resolutions are supported
7. **Skippable**: Allow viewers to skip ads after x seconds
8. Save changes

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You can create many ad tags as you wish with different content

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**Custom Image Ad**

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFU1IN4qk4o>" %}

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**Custom Image and Video Ad**

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2Utlg3eDc>" %}

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**Custom Video Ad**

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1VO-pREso>" %}

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**Import custom Vast Tag**

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuksFQoMJc>" %}

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#### Add Ad Schedule

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Navigate to **Advertising > Ad Schedules > Add New**

1. **Add Title**: Enter a custom title
2. **Enable this Schedule**: check on this option to enable Ad schedule, otherwise, Ad schedule won't work.
3. **Ad Tag URL**: your own Ad Tag URL, try to open this URL on browser, if you get an 404 error page, you will need to navigate **Settings > Permalinks** page and hit the **Save Changes** button to update permalinks, please note that you have to update the Ad Schedule before opening this URL
4. **Start Date**: Date to start the schedule, required
5. **End Date**: Date to stop the schedule, required
6. **New Ad**: Add the ad tags that you added earlier, you can also select Pre-roll, Mid-roll or Post-roll while adding Ad tag
7. Save changes

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{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gytXrD4IA4g>" %}

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#### Set Ads For Special Videos

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Edit the video you want to set Ads for

1. **Disable Advertising**: Don't run any Ads on this video content
2. **Ad Schedules**: Select the Ad Schedules you want to run on this video content

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#### Personal Advertisements

Navigate to your frontend Dashboard > Advertising and add your own Vast Tag URL

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{% hint style="info" %}
Members need the '**manage\_vast\_tag**' capability to add their own VAST tag.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
Advertisements will not appear if:

1. **CORS isn't enabled.**
2. **A browser adblocker is enabled.**
   {% endhint %}