Configure Mid-Roll VAST ads with FV Player VAST

When we first introduced FV Player VAST, it would only play the video ads in front of the videos. We call it the Pre-Roll ad placement.

Later on, we let the ads show after the video as well, using Post-Roll ads.

Along the way we added the Mid-Roll ad placements for individual videos. You had to specify the exact time in seconds at which the ad should show.

That was too much work, so we added the “Global Mid-Roll” setting.

But in both cases, this Mid-Roll ad placement would only repeat the Pre-Roll ad.

Improved Mid-Roll Ad Management

That’s why the new FV Player VAST 8.0.28 gives you full control over which VAST ads should load for the Mid-Roll placements.

If you are upgrading from an older FV Player VAST version, you get a popup in your WordPress Admin Dashboard. It tells you how your existing Pre-Roll ads were copied into the new Mid-Roll ad placements, if you used that “Global Mid-Roll” setting before:

Notes

FV Player VAST also lets your ad server take over the Mid-Roll placements by using the VMAP standard of the VAST ads. In that case, simply enter your VMAP-enabled VAST ad link as the Pre-Roll and it will integrate properly.

We are also exploring the possibility of serving VAST ads for FV Player videos playing via Chromecast.

Martin Viceník

Martin graduated as an engineer in Computer Science from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He grew up in Liptovský Mikuláš in northern Slovakia next to the beautiful Tatra mountains. He is the developer behind our FV Player.