Video Advertising

1. Global Advertisements

2. Custom Advertisements

3. Personal Advertisements

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Global Advertisements

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.

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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:

# 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

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

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Custom Image Ad

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Custom Image and Video Ad

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Custom Video Ad

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Import custom Vast Tag

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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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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

Members need the 'manage_vast_tag' capability to add their own VAST tag.

Advertisements will not appear if:

1. CORS isn't enabled.

2. A browser adblocker is enabled.