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    Video parallax (redirect)

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    Overview Demo Compliancy Creatives Creative template parameters Features Player behavior Limitations Known issues Release notes

    Overview

    The "Video parallax (redirect)" creative template displays a piece of a background video ad while the user is scrolling. Video playback starts as soon as 50% of the ad's surface is visible.

    Demo

    Video parallax demo

    Compliancy

    Criterion Compliancy
    Creative rotation

    ✅
    RTB

    ✅
    SIMID

    ❌
    Viewability counting (MRC standard)

    ✅
    VPAID

    ❌

    Creatives

    This section applies for the direct template version only.

    Supported creatives:

    • VAST URL (pasted into the VAST URL field – see creative template parameters below)
    • supported creative files contained in the VAST: MP4, MOV, 3GP
    • no VPAID supported

    The ad is automatically adapted to the width of the screen and the height is adjusted to preserve the aspect ratio.

    Creative template parameters

    Parameter Description
    Parallax window aspect ratio

    Window aspect ratio through which the parallax banner will be visible. Possible values:

    • 1:1 (square)
    • 2:3
    • 9:16 (fullscreen)

    Default value: 1:1 (square)
    VAST URL  The URL of the VAST file that will be used by the insertion.

    Features

    Ads from insertions using this creative template must be displayed in a specially integrated banner view. This banner view must be in a cell of the app table view at least in a bottom position and react properly to the table view scroll events. To enable the parallax effect, the banner should be able to scroll from the bottom to the top of the app.

    Read the technical documentation for more details on how to integrate banner views for this template.

    Player behavior

    The creative behaves as follows:

    • auto-play
    • loop playback
    • audio muted by default
    • volume button displayed to mute/unmute the ad
    • when the app’s table view is scrolled:
      • the video ad starts/pauses when at least 50% of the ad's surface is visible/invisible
      • a blurred background is added to fill the empty space

    Limitations

    • requires SDK version 8.1 or later
    • VPAID creatives not supported

    Known issues

    n/a

    Release notes

    • 2024-08-19 - Removed unused template parameters
    • 2024-06-27 - Release of the creative template

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