Placements are entities representing “real-estate spaces” on screen, i.e. HTML elements into which we render ads. Placement entities connect channels to custom placements on any site utilizing CSS selectors and allow customization of the placement’s behavior when showing AniView instream or outstream players.
Placement Element
The player is created on an element id specified by placementConfig.position
:
<div id="aniplayer"></div>
Placement Configuration
The configuration of the placement is a configuration object with properties that instruct the placement on how to handle the placement element and render the correct ad.
For example:
var placementConfig = { publisherId: '[Publisher_ID]', channelId: '[Channel_ID]', ref1: '', width: 300, height: 250, errorLimit: 5, position : 'aniplayer' };
Placement Javascript
The player code is located at https://player.aniview.com/webm/aniview-display.js
Placement Instantiation
myPlacement = new avDisplay(placementConfig); myPlacement.play();
Putting it all together
<div id="aniplayer"></div> <script type="text/javascript" id="aniviewJS"> (function() { var myPlacement; var placementConfig = { publisherId: '[Publisher_ID]', channelId: '[Channel_ID]', ref1: '', width: 300, height: 250, errorLimit: 5, position : 'aniplayer' }; (new Image).src = "https://track1.aniview.com/track?pid="+placementConfig.publisherId+"&cid="+placementConfig.channelId+"&e=playerLoaded"+"&cb="+Date.now(); var placementUrl = 'https://player.aniview.com/webm/aniview-display.js'+'?v=1&type=s&pid='+placementConfig.publisherId; function downloadScript(src,adData) { var scp = document.createElement('script'); scp.src = src; scp.onload = function() { myPlacement = new avDisplay(placementConfig); myPlacement.play(); }; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scp); }; downloadScript(placementUrl,placementConfig); })(); </script>
placementConfig Configuration Options
Name | Mandatory | Default Value | Values | Description |
publisherId | Yes | String | Aniview publisher id | |
channelId | Yes | String | Aniview channel id from the same account of the publisher id used | |
position | Yes | String | the div id where the player should be created | |
width | yes | Number | The player width in pixels If width = 100 and height = 0, width is auto detected based on containing element | |
height | yes | Number | The player height in pixels If width = 100 and height = 0, height is auto detected based on containing element and is calculated as width / 1.777 | |
minHeight | No | Number | Minimum player height - Used with width/height of 100/0 | |
minWidth | No | Number | Minimum player width - Used with width/height of 100/0 | |
maxRun | No | Number | Maximum number of waterfall runs in the player session | |
maxImp | No | Number | Maximum number of impressions per player session | |
errorLimit | No | Number | Maximum number of (1 + vastRetry) runs of the waterfall that do not generate impression. This means (1 + vastRetry) * (1 + errorLimit) - max number of consecutive waterfall runs that do not generate impression If there is an impression the counter reset to 0 | |
ref1 | No | String | Macro list ref1: “AV_MACRO1=value1&AV_MACRO2=value2“ Values should be URL encoded | |
clickthrough | String Array | Clickthrough url when clicking on the content. Not relevant in js If preloader is Content, can also be an array of clickthrough urls per video in the content array | ||
Skip | No | false | Boolean | Show or not the skip button |
skipTimer | No | Number | Time to wait before showing the skip button. Required to be > 0 for skip button functionality | |
skipText | No | String | Text to show in skip button | |
passback | No | object | config for showing passback for placement | |
| No | object | allows setting overriding configs to the placement in case of desktop | |
| No | number | ||
height | No | number | ||
| No | [{ w:Number, h: Number }] | ||
| No | object | just like desktop settings but for mobile, with 2 extra fields | |
| string | different position to the placement if needed | ||
| string | |||
| boolean | |||
| object | as per refresh config | ||
| {width: Number, height: Number} | |||
| {width: Number, height: Number} | |||
hideControls | No | false | Boolean | Hide player controls or not |
refresh | No | object | refresh policy config | |
strategy | string | AutoStart, Interval, None | ||
interval | No | number | 30/60/90 seconds |
Placement API
avDisplay(placementConfig)
Instantiate the placement object with the placementConfig configuration
start()
Start/resume the placement instance, including ad flow.
stop()
Stop the placement, including ad flow.
close() / destroy()
Close the placement and stop its functionality completely.
getWidth()
Returns the player width in pixels
getHeight()
Returns the player height in pixels
on(evt, func, context)
Register an event listener for placement events
hasNext()
Returns whether we have a ready ad to render for this placement.
show()
Shows the placement, resuming it and the ad flow (no re-construction).
hide()
Hides the placement, stopping it and the ad flow (no destruction).
startInRead()
Applies in-read appearance to the placement.
startInFloat(FloatingConfig
)
Applies floating appearance to the placement, as specific in FloatingConfig:
startInSticky(StickyConfig
)
Applies floating appearance to the placement, as specific in StickyConfig:
resetAppearance()
Applies appearance to the placement, as specified in the original placementConfig
.
Placement Events
The player on() function can be used to subscribe to events. Multiple listeners can be set for each event
In addition, callback on functions are supported to the events
Note: With vpaid ad sources, the player relies on events triggered by the vpaid. In some cases, some events are not supported by vpaids so those events might not be called sometimes.
The supported events are:
Event name | Description |
---|---|
AdImpression | Called when there is an impression, regardless of creative type. { "asid": "Ad source id", "clickThrough": "Ad click url if available", "videoUrl": "Url of media file if available", "mt": "Media type, vast or vpaid", "tagInfo" : { "url": "Actual ad source meta data, template of url", "bidCpm": Actual bid cpm (prebid, rtb) or floor if vast/platform link, "pubCpm": Publisher CPM after rev share, "floorCpm": floor price used "bidCode": "Bidder code from prebid", "vast": Array of vast chain } } |
AdError | Called by the player every time it finish running 1 + vastRetry waterfall runs without impression Called also whenever the player decides that it should stop running, for example when maxImp or maxRun is reached, in this case the event will pass a parameter: {errorlimit: true} to indicate the player is stopping calls for ads |
Inventory | Called when the player is initialized |
InventoryRequest | Called every time the player starts a waterfall run |
Sample Events
Player Initialized Event
The player is initialized on the inventory event
player.on("Inventory", function(){ //Player is initialized });
Impression Event
player.on("AdImpression", function(){ //Ad impression occured });
Identify when the Player Finished Calls
An AdError event is called every time a set of calls to the waterfall finished without impression or when at least one limit of the player configuration is reached (maxRun, maxImp, errorLimit)
When the player finished calls and will not continue anymore, it calls AdError event and passes an errorlimit parameter
player.on("AdError", function(res){ if(res && res.errorlimit) { //Player stopped } });
Placement Behavior
The player support advanced behaviors such as In Article, Floating, Sticky and many customizations.
Aniview provides a tool for managing templates configuration. this section describes the configuration flags available for templates configuration
In order to activate the template, its is required to wrap the player element in additional elements and call the startTemplate API passing the element of the parent of the player position element
Template Position Wrapper
The player position (<div id="aniplayer_aniviewJS562811134">) is wrapped with an aniBox div and another wrapper
<div style="width: 100%; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"> <div id="aniBox" style="height: 1px;"> <div id="aniplayer_aniviewJS562811134"> </div> </div> </div>
The player template generator automatically build this structure
The player is created inside the position div with a unique id
Starting Template
In order to start running a template with the below configuration options, it is required to call startTemplate passing the element of the parent of the position passed in position. In this case it will be the aniBox element
player.startTemplate(document.getElementById(placementConfig.position).parentNode)
Templates Configuration
The templates configuration ads additional configurations to placementConfig
Those configurations are used only if startTemplate is called
Name | Mandatory | Default Value | Values | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
playOnView | false | Boolean | If set to true, the player will automatically check viewability and will call startAd only when in view. | |
startOnView | false | Boolean | If set to true, the player will start only when in view. This means that inventory will be sent only when in view and the player loads | |
reqOnView | false | Boolean | If set to true, the player will run the waterfall and call ad sources only when in view. When out of view, when its time to call the ad sources, the player will verify that its in view and if not it will wait till the player is in view | |
vitab | false | Boolean | If set to true, tab viewability is taken into account when checking viewability | |
pauseOnUnseen | false | Boolean | If set to true, the player will pause when its out of view | |
pauseOnBlur | false | Boolean | Pause when browser window lose focus | |
openAnim | false | Boolean | If true, player opens in animation | |
hideInitPreloader | false | Boolean | Hide player when searching for ads | |
showPlayer | Boolean | Force showing the player | ||
scriptId | Yes | String | Id of script used to position the player if no pos defined | |
posId | String | Position id If defined the player will be located on the element with the specified id | ||
posTag | String | Position tag If defined the player will be located on the element with the specified tag name | ||
posClass | String | Position class If defined the player will be located on the first element with the specified class | ||
posSelector | String | Position selector If defined, the player position will use querySelector with the given string | ||
Sticky/Floating | Object | A sticky player is always sticking i a fixed position on the screen, typically in one of the screen corners | ||
size | Number | The size of the sticky player will be the size of the original placement x size Set to 1 for easy configuration | ||
position | String | Defines the position of the sticky player. Can be one of: Bottom-Right Bottom-Left Top-Right Top-Left | ||
right | Number | Create a margin of the defined number from the right side of the window | ||
left | Number | Create a margin of the defined number from the left side of the window | ||
top | Number | Create a margin of the defined number from the top side of the window | ||
bottom | Number | Create a margin of the defined number from the bottom side of the window | ||
creativeDimensions | [{ w:Number, h: Number }] | Specific dimensions for the creatives to be rendered to this placement. |