VAST-VPAID Test Ad Tag Example

Sample VAST-Video ad tags from Freewheel, Google IMA, TremorVideo, SizMek, Youtube, MediaMath, Below you will find the individual ad tags, always along with an example video.

Most of the times we stuck in the situation where we want to test the video player configuration with vast tag. We want to make sure that Video Player that we are using is compatible to run most of the VAST tags present in the market from different third party.

Though IAB have made generalize guidelines for the player developers called as VPAID (Video Player-Ad Interface Design), Still from Ad operation perceptive we want to make sure that the ad that we are trying to run is compatible to run on our players.

You can check all of the vast tag in various VAST Ad Tag tester, Few of the them are listed in my other article

VAST-VPaid-Video Ads Inspector

Google IMA Sample Tags

Use the following tags to test your IMA implementation on HTML5 player, Its provided by Google and will work on player which are IMA SDK integrated. IMA SDK integration of the player is most important in case

1. Running Google Adx Demands
2. Running DFP Campaign and track the impressions/clicks Correctly.
3. Record Correct numbers for Viewability
4. Send the Additional Information such as video content type, Page url, Publisher details etc to Buyers/Bidders in Ad Exchange

• Single Inline Linear
• Single Skippable Inline
• Single Redirect Linear
• Single VPAID 2.0 Linear
• Single VPAID 2.0 Non-Linear
• Single Non-linear Inline

For More VAST IMA Tag Example Visit 

MediaMath VAST Tag

https://vast.mathtag.com/?debug=1&exch=brx&id=asfasf&sid=111&cid=53&price=12&protocol_version=1&aid=13&adverid=1

FreeWheel Video – VAST Test Tag

http://vi.freewheel.tv/static/creatives/vast_vpaid.xml

Youtube Video VAST Tag Example

https://ytvastqa.appspot.com/static/sampletag/vast.xml

Spotx VAST Tag Examples

• Spotx Sample Connected TV VAST Tag for Testing – MP4 Ads Only

http://search.spotxchange.com/vast/2.00/85394?VPI=MP4&app[bundle]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[name]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[cat]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[domain]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[privacypolicy]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[storeurl]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[ver]=[REPLACE_ME]&cb=[REPLACE_ME]&device[devicetype]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[ifa]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[make]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[model]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[dnt]=[REPLACE_ME]&player_height=[REPLACE_ME]&player_width=[REPLACE_ME]&ip_addr=[REPLACE_ME]&device[ua]=[REPLACE_ME]

• Spotx Sample Mobile Application VAST Macros Tag for Testing

http://search.spotxchange.com/vast/2.00/85394?VPAID=js&app[name]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[domain]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[cat]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[ver]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[bundle]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[privacypolicy]=[REPLACE_ME]&app[storeurl]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[ifa]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[dnt]=[REPLACE_ME]&ip_addr=[REPLACE_ME]&device[ua]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[geo][lat]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[geo][lon]=[REPLACE_ME]&cb=[REPLACE_ME]&

• Spotx Sample Mobile Web Tag for Testing

http://search.spotxchange.com/vast/2.00/85394?VPAID=js&content_page_url=[REPLACE_ME]&site[cat]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[dnt]=[REPLACE_ME]&ip_addr=[REPLACE_ME]&device[ua]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[geo][lat]=[REPLACE_ME]&device[geo][lon]=[REPLACE_ME]&cb=[REPLACE_ME]

• Example of a properly formatted and complete connected TV ad request to SpotX

Tremor Video Examples-VAST 2.0 XML sample

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_inline_nonlinear.xml
http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_inline_linear.xml
http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_wrapper_linear_1.xml
http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_wrapper_linear_2.xml
http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_wrapper_nonlinear_1.xml
http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_wrapper_nonlinear_2.xml

• VAST 1.0 Regular Linear:

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast1RegularLinear.xml

• VAST 1.0 VPAID Linear:

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast1VPAIDLinear.xml

• VAST 1.0 Non-Linear:

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast1Nonlinear.xml

• VAST 2.0 Regular Linear:

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast2RegularLinear.xml

• VAST 2.0 VPAID Linear

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast2VPAIDLinear.xml

• VAST 2.0 Non-Linear:

http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast2Nonlinear.xml

Sizmek Vast Tag

https://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=is&c=23&pl=VAST&pli=14432293&PluID=0&pos=8834&ord=%5Btimestamp%5D&cim=1

JW Player VAST Tag Sample

https://playertest.longtailvideo.com/vast-30s-ad.xml

References

• Google IMA Tag
• IAB Tremor Video Tags
• Spotx VAST Tags
• Spotx Video VAST Tag Generator
• Openx Documentations