Hello,
I'm new to longtailvideo. I use youtube videos on my website and I would like to know if it's possible to use longtailvideo in order to use this kind of preroll:
The advertiser gave me just this simple url, that is what I should use to load a preroll video to my videos: http://www.utarget.co.uk/utpod/chooseAd.aspx?cid=814&pick=true&geo=true
When you paste this url into a browser it will return a long line of
alpha-numerics. If you right click on the page and select "View Source" you should see the XML it returns, encoded in a base64 format.
I've been told that the video player should call the pick tag (as above) and decode the XML that it returns. The most important being the <LoadAdURL> which will return a url to the path of the pre-roll video.
Here is a breakdown of what the fields returned by XML are and how they
should be used :
<CampaignID> = This is simply a unique identifier of this particular
Pre-Roll campaign.
<LoadAdURL> = This returns a URL of the physical location of the video on
Utarget's streaming server
<impTag> = This is the tag(url) to call when the user clicks on the play
button of your player.
(which will allow us to track how many times the
pre-roll has been called)
<ClickTag> = This should be used when the user clicks on the video.
(It's the url which the user should be redirected to)When I used your pick tag, here are the results I was returned:
At the moment my pick tag gives this information:
<utargetpreroll>
<campaignID>857</campaignID>
<loadAdURL>aHR0cDovL3V0YXJnZXQuaHR0cHN2Yy52aXRhbHN0cmVhbWNkbi5jb20vdXRhcmdld
F92aXRhbHN0cmVhbV9jb20vUHJlcm9sbF9WaWRlb3NfUFJPRy9Ob2tpYV8xNXNlY19vbl9haXJfR
kxWLTQ4MFgzNjAuZmx2</loadAdURL>
** This decodes to
:http://utarget.httpsvc.vitalstreamcdn.com/utarget_vitalstream_com/Preroll_V
ideos_PROG/Nokia_15sec_on_air_FLV-480X360.flv
<impTag>aHR0cDovL3d3dy51dGFyZ2V0LmNvLnVrL3V0cG9kL2Nob29zZWFkLmFzcHg/Y2lkPTg1
Nw==</impTag>
** This decodes to : http://www.utarget.co.uk/utpod/choosead.aspx?cid=857
<clickTag>aHR0cDovL3d3dy51dGFyZ2V0LmNvLnVrL3V0cG9kL2Nob29zZWFkLmFzcHg/Y2lkX2
NsaWNrPTg1Nw==</clickTag>
** This decodes to :
http://www.utarget.co.uk/utpod/choosead.aspx?cid_click=857
</utargetpreroll>
I have NO IDEA how to start with this thing. Any help would be VERY appreciated
I'm looking to figure out the same thing. We were given a URL as well and I'm not sure where to place it so it calls the XML.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.