Watterwall ad loading not working

Hi songsrpeople,

the site is overflowing with ads and debug messages on the JavaScript console. Could you please enable the FV Player VAST debugging mode (Settings -> FV Player VAST -> Debug), so that we can see the events of our plugin?

Thanks,
Martin

Hi songsrpeople,

unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be on. Could you please double-check? It’s a checkbox labeled “Debug” in Settings -> FV Player VAST which has a description: “Turn on to examine VAST events, loading and tracking.”

Is there any cache on the site which could prevent me from seeing the option enabled? I’m checking it in the HTML source of the page.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello songsrpeople,

so we had a careful look and found some issues:

Your ads are (I removed the sensitive information like your ad unit ID or URLs):

1) http://search.spotxchange.com/vast/2.00/YOUR-ID-HERE?VPAID=1&content_page_url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F2014%2F11%2Fpost-name-3%2F&cb=__random-number__&player_width=__player-width__&player_height=__player-height__

2) http://ads.us.e-planning.net/eb/4/YOUR-ID-HERE/CPM_MediumPlayerVideo490300_IMN_PUB_109/490x300_CPM_MediumPlayerVideo490300_IMN_PUB_109?o=v&ma=1&vv=2

3) http://v.admedia.com/?id=YOUR_ID_HERE&page_url=[ENCODED_PAGE_URL]&autoplay=[0,1]&content=[CONTENT_CODE]&title=[VIDEO_TITLE]&video_id=[VIDEO_ID]

In this one, it appears you didn’t replaced the URL parameters with the ones supported by our plugin. Please check our documentation here: https://foliovision.com/player/vast/player-vast-use

The step 4 tells you way URL tags are supported, so you can put these in to make sure your ad provider gets all the variables. You may need to ask them about [CONTENT_CODE] as it’s not clear what this variable should represent.

It’s obvious, that [ENCODED_PAGE_URL] needs to be replaced with [permalink] and [0,1] with [LR_AUTOPLAY]. [CONTENT_CODE] could be replaced with [post_id], [VIDEO_TITLE] should be [post_title] and [VIDEO_ID] can be [post_id] as well.

4) http://ima3vpaid.appspot.com/?adTagUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleads.g.doubleclick.net%2Fpagead%2Fads%3Fclient%3Dca-video-pub-SOME-ID-HERE%26slotname%3DSOME-ID-HERE%26ad_type%3Dstandardvideo%26description_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fsome-other-domain-here.com%26max_ad_duration%3D15000%26videoad_start_delay%3D0%26hl%3Den

In this one, I can see that description_url is not set to your domain. Is that already? Perhaps you need to put in [permalink] instead of the link which is currently there.

5) http://ad4.liverail.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=YOUR_ID_HERE&LR_SCHEMA=vast2-vpaid&LR_CONTENT=&LR_TITLE=Your Title&LR_VIDEO_ID=1189&LR_AUTOPLAY=[LR_AUTOPLAY]

I’m attaching a screenshot of Chromium developer tools in which I highlighted the ad loading for each of the ads. Green color is the ad loading, pink color is the parsed URL being requested by the Flash VPAID engine and red is the result of the ad loading.

Click to get a full-sized version: https://foliovision.com/images/support/vast-debug.png

I’m noticing that the last ad is not loaded at all. That’s because we didn’t counted on more than 4 ads in waterfall loading. Please download the FV Player VAST from your https://foliovision.com/edit account to get a fixed version. We are working on a bigger improvements right now, which make it harder for me to release a quick updated version.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello songsrpeople,

I can see that the loading works, but the first ad gets stuck trying to load over and over again.

Please check my previous message in this thread. I wrote you exactly what needs to be done about that VAST ad URL, it’s number 3. in the list. Perhaps that will help.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello songsrpeople,

so your VAST URL is like this (warning, I omitted the ?id= parameter to protect your privacy, you will have to put that one back in):

http://v.admedia.com/?id=YOUR_ID_HERE&page_url=[ENCODED_PAGE_URL]&autoplay=[0,1]&content=[CONTENT_CODE]&title=[VIDEO_TITLE]&video_id=[VIDEO_ID]

So [ENCODED_PAGE_URL] needs to be replaced with [permalink] and [0,1] with [LR_AUTOPLAY]. [CONTENT_CODE] could be replaced with [post_id], [VIDEO_TITLE] should be [post_title] and [VIDEO_ID] can be [post_id] as well.

That means it will become:

http://v.admedia.com/?id=YOUR_ID_HERE&page_url=[permalink]&autoplay=[LR_AUTOPLAY]&content=[post_id]&title=[post_title]&video_id=[post_id]

Thanks,
Martin

Hello songsrpeople,

I can see the following:

http://v.admedia.com/?id=your-ID&page_url=permalink&autoplay=LR_AUTOPLAY&content=post_id&title=post_title&video_id=post_id

Make sure you read this post in our forums, as the mail notifications seem to remove the [ and ] symbols. Check my last post to see what it should look like.

However even if I replaced all the URL tags properly, the ad appears to trigger some kind of endless loop. It happens even here https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/vastinspector_dual , so I supsect there is a problem with that specific ad unit and I recommend your report the issue to the ad provider.

Thanks,
Martin