Slideshow
Overview
Formerly named "Mobile Slideshow". The "Slideshow" creative template displays an ad with an infinite number of image/video slides. Users can view the slides by swiping or tapping the arrow button.
Demo
Compliancy
| Criterion | Compliancy |
|---|---|
| Creative rotation | ❌ |
| Friendly iFrame | ✅ |
| IFrame buster | ❌ |
| Multi-instance | ✅ |
| Responsive web design | ❌ |
| RTB | ❌ |
Creatives
- Ratio: any ratio is accepted, remember that all creatives should have the same ratio
- Dimensions: all sizes are accepted, remember that all creatives should have the same size
- Minimum number of slides (creatives): 2
- Maximum number of slides (creatives): no maximum
- Supported file formats: image and video (.mp4 h264)
Parameters
| Name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| Animation type | Specifies the animation type. | slide |
| Arrows color | Specifies the color of the arrows. | #ffffff |
| Auto play | The number of seconds between automatically proceeding to the next slide; disabled when set to 0. | 5 |
| Border line color | Specifies the color of the border line. | #cccccc |
| Creative background color | Specifies the creative background color which will be visible between slides. | #000000 |
| Label text | Specifies the label displayed above the ad. | Advertisement |
| Label text font color | Specifies the label text color. | #cccccc |
| Label text font size | Specifies the label font size. | 12 |
| Loop | Sets the loop mode. | true |
| Show border line | Specifies if a border line should appear around the ad. | true |
| Tracking url | Make sure you add [timestamp] to the URL for cache busting. |
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| Transparent background | Sets the creative background to transparent - this will override the "Creative background color" parameter. | false |
Features
Formerly named "Mobile Slideshow". The "Slideshow" creative template displays an ad with an infinite number of image/video slides. Users can view the slides by swiping or tapping the arrow button.
Metrics
This ad format supports interaction tracking. Each change of slide is logged in reports (metric name: "adslidecount"). In case of video slides, the interaction event is fired upon click on the play button.
Limitations
n/a
Known issues
Swiping and the arrows do not work on the video element in iOS 8 or earlier.
Release notes
- 05-03-2025 - Update for action pixels generation
- 16-04-2024 - Fix rendering in friendly iframe
- 24-01-2024 - Removed support for obsolete macros
- 03-01-2024 - Added support for viewability
- 04-05-2023 - Fix position of control arrows
- 17-04-2023 - Update sas-libs version to 1.1 and remove document.write from the EMP creative template
- 03-01-2023 - Fix rendering more than one ad on page
- 18-10-2022 - Remove "app" environment from the template
- 16-08-2022 - Fix video preview image on the iOS devices
- 21-07-2022 - Add redirect by click for video creatives
- 30-07-2018 - Async impression & creative tracking
- 14-06-2018 - Support for more formats on impression
- 24-10-2017 - Support for tags POST One call
- 16-08-2017 - Support for standalone tag
- 25-05-2017 - Allow to scroll page by touching the ad