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.

1 Placement Element
- 1.1 Placement Configuration
- 1.2 Placement Javascript
- 1.3 Placement Instantiation
- 1.4 Putting it all together
- 1.5 placementConfig Configuration Options
- 1.6 Placement API
  - 1.6.1 avDisplay(placementConfig)
  - 1.6.2 width
  - 1.6.3 height
  - 1.6.4 hasLoadedAd
  - 1.6.5 adWidth
  - 1.6.6 adHeight
  - 1.6.7 next(force: boolean)
  - 1.6.8 stop()
  - 1.6.9 requestBids()
  - 1.6.10 renderAd()
  - 1.6.11 showAd()
  - 1.6.12 hideAd()
  - 1.6.13 on(evt, func)
  - 1.6.14 destroy()
- 1.7 Placement Events
- 1.8 Sample Events
  - 1.8.1 Player Initialized Event
  - 1.8.2 Impression Event
  - 1.8.3 Identify when the Player Finished Calls
- 1.9 Placement Behavior
  - 1.9.1 Template Position Wrapper
- 1.10 Templates Configuration

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/script/webm/ads.js

Placement Instantiation

myPlacement = new avDisplay(placementConfig);

Putting it all together

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
creativeDimensions	No		[{ w: Number, h: Number }]	Specific dimensions for the creatives to be rendered to this placement.
autoStart	No	true	Boolean	Immediately start showing an ad after the initialization
refresh	No		Object	Refresh policy config
strategy	No	interval	“interval”, “none”	Auto-refresh an ad or manually control it via API
minViewTime	No	5 000	Number	Minimum time in milliseconds an ad should be in view before the next refresh
minRenderTime (legacy name - interval)	No	30 000	Number	Minimum time in milliseconds (30 000 / 60 000 / 90 000) between refreshes
noNewInventory	No	false	Boolean	Don’t send inventory reporting
maxRun	No	9999	Number	Maximum number of waterfall runs in the player session
maxImp	No	9999	Number	Maximum number of impressions per player session
errorLimit	No	5	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	No		Object	Show or not the skip button
url	No		String	Clickthrough url when clicking on the ad

Placement API

avDisplay(placementConfig)

Instantiate the placement object with the placementConfig configuration.

width

Returns the placement width in pixels.

height

Returns the placement height in pixels.

hasLoadedAd

Returns whether we have a ready ad to render for this placement.

adWidth

Returns the ad width in pixels inside the placement.

adHeight

Returns the ad height in pixels inside the placement.

next(force: boolean)

Start/resume the placement instance, including ad flow. force flag means you want to kill the current refresh.minViewTime and refresh.minRenderTime timers and force the next ad to be requested instead of showing again the current ad if these timers didn’t pass yet.

stop()

Stop the placement, including ad flow.

requestBids()

Allows manually request bids if the refresh strategy is “none”.

renderAd()

Allows manually render the next winning bid’s HTML if the refresh strategy is “none”.

showAd()

Shows the ad inside the placement.

hideAd()

Hides the ad inside the placement.

on(evt, func)

Register an event listener for placement events.

destroy()

Close the placement and stop its functionality completely.

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

Event name	Description
AdImpression	Called when there is an impression, regardless of creative type. The AdImpression event passes a parameter with extra data that is used for 3rd party reporting:
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
AdShow	Will be triggered on each `showAd` API call
AdHide	Will be triggered on each `hideAd` API call

Sample Events

Player Initialized Event

The player is initialized on the inventory event

Impression Event

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

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

The player template generator automatically build this structure

The player is created inside the position div with a unique id

Templates Configuration

The templates configuration ads additional configurations to placementConfig.

Name	Mandatory	Default Value	Values	Description

Name	Default Value	Values	Description
reqOnView	true	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
startOnView	true	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
vitab	false	Boolean	If set to true, tab viewability is taken into account when checking viewability

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Placement API Implementation