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IMA SDK Plugin for Video.js
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Early post-roll calls #991

Closed skullhole closed 3 years ago

skullhole commented 3 years ago

Hello team,

I have been inspecting the advanced example here https://googleads.github.io/videojs-ima/examples/advanced/ with "VMAP Pre-, Mid-, and Post-rolls, Single Ads" tag from https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/client-side/tags#vmap-pre-,-mid-,-and-post-rolls,-single-ads

https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x480&iu=/124319096/external/ad_rule_samples&ciu_szs=300x250&ad_rule=1&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vmap&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=deployment%3Ddevsite%26sample_ar%3Dpremidpost&cmsid=496&vid=short_onecue&correlator=

and i am seeing that the call to https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?slotname=... with vpos=postroll is being made shortly after the midroll ends which is long before the video completion.

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That call look to happen very early considering that potentially significant amount of the users might not be getting to the video completion making that call a wasted one.

Is this by the design? Are there ways to control when these calls are made and make them at the later time?

Thanks.

Kiro705 commented 3 years ago

Hello @skullhole ,

This is by design, IMA will load the post-roll following the last midroll ad. Because this is not specific to the VideoJS-IMA plugin but the behavior of the IMA SDK in general, I would ask you to raise the request to change this behavior on the IMA SDK forum. The request will be properly routed to the team from there.

Thank you, Jackson IMA SDK Team