Hello all, We have a library of video content that we would like to deliver in an embedded player. Currently the content is available for download only in various formats. For familiarities sake, as well preference and other reasons, I would like to begin delivering this content using embedded flash using the control / button bar in MX. An test example is here - http://retroblast.com/Namco%20Ridge%20Racer%20Mobile.html What I cannot figure out is how to precede each clip requested by a user, with a short ad from a sponsor, selected from a pool of sponsor ads. So at time 1 I select the video and it plays an add for cheezy poofs, but at time 2 it plays an ad for blended bass etc. Of course I would like to do this in such a way that I have control over what ads from the pool are displayed with the usual conditions, time, frequency, date, impressions, etc. We use PHP Adserver right now for our ad delivery, and I can't see how to do this in that application. Any assistance or direction is greatly appreciated and I am open to all suggestions regardless. James
James, Everyone is trying to figure this one out. We publish several sites that include licensed video stories from a supplier as well as our own shows. The supplier is using wmv files for the stories (lotsa Mac people cut out of viewership) and playlists to call the ad files first. It works - kinda. We offer sponsors a chance to run "in" the file at the head on some of our own shows. Not a perfect solution.
Yep, we have done something similar, but it just isn't scaleable. I have been playing with PHP Adsnew tring to figure out a workaround to pull it off but so far no luck.
I've got PAN too. Thought about this a bunch... Could the first call to the page load the ad code in an iframe... ? Then a timed meta refresh to the media player of choice in the same size spot? Wait - the on-page code (PAN zone tag) contains the refresh time delay so the video content would get bumped along after the same duration as the first ad... Or am I wrong?
Think theres a market here target at other webmasters? if someone developed a player that let you put ads in a playlist to run random before videos? Also ad custom skins for the player and have it stream from any location? In the meanwhile if anyone is looking for this kind of integration drop me a message, im already working on this development for my own sites and considering selling scripts or creating a site to administrate this.