Compansion Overlay for Video

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Posted: Mon, 2011-06-20 08:03 Neil

We have been try to impliement a flowplayer solution through openx and have come to a brick wall. I think i just would like to know if the following is possible and if anyone has a working example of this.

We have got the flowplayer work and openx seem to be delivering the content fine. It is delivering videos and overlay banners.

What we can't make it do is run a video with a specific overlay. So if we had say 2 campaigns running on openx one for coke and one for pepsi we would like to assign the coke overlay to the coke video and the pepsi overlay to the pepsi video.

Is this possible.

Many thanks

Neil

Posted: Mon, 2011-06-20 12:08 Paul Schulz

Hi Neil,

Are both campaigns attached to the same zone or different OpenX zones?

Paul

Posted: Mon, 2011-06-20 12:09 Paul Schulz

Also, just to check - are you running the OpenX community edition or the hosted edition? (or the new Enterprise V3 edition?)

Paul

Posted: Tue, 2011-06-21 05:41 Neil

Hi Paul

Thanks for getting back.

This is the version of openx that we are running at the moment.

You are currently using OpenX v2.8.7 running on Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.2.14 and MySQL 5.0.77-.

We host the solution ourselves.

You are right about attaching both campaigns to the zone. In our case we will be adding multiple campaigns to the video zone.

We have got the video running currently without an overlay banner.

Do you know if the Enterprise V3 edition allows companion overlays?

Many thanks

Neil

Posted: Tue, 2011-06-21 05:57 Paul Schulz

Hi,

(keeping in mind that I really don't know a lot about OpenX) - my guess is that the best way to do this is to use the OpenX "site variables" for targeting to so that you can pull out a specific ad for a specific set of criteria.

Here's an OpenX blog on it for standard banners:

http://blog.openx.org/10/targeting-banners-using-site-variable-targeting/

But in terms of the Video side of things, I have an example that actually does this. Here it is:

http://static.openvideoads.org/qa/rc3-31/ova.flowplayer/examples/custom-delivery/example03.html

In this example, I want to pull back a specifically "targeted" ad from Zone 5 based on some "site variables" called "category and gender".

So in the Video Banner that I've setup on my OpenX instance I added two site variables to it - category and gender.

Then in the OVA configuration, I've specified the additional "site variables" that I want to add to the end of the OpenX query so that it specifies "category=food&gender=male". I do that using the OVA OpenX custom config property called "target" - e.g.

...
"servers": [
      {
           "type": "OpenX",
           "apiAddress": "http://openx.openvideoads.org/openx/www/delivery/fc.php",
           "customProperties": { 
                 "target": [ "category=food", "gender=male" ] 
           }
      }

So the resulting OpenX Ad Tag looks like this:

http://openx.openvideoads.org/openx/www/delivery/fc.php?script=bannerTypeHtml:vastInlineBannerTypeHtml:vastInlineHtml&zones=pre-roll0-0%3D5&nz=1&source=&r=R0.057170582469552755&block=1&format=vast&charset=UTF-8&category=food&gender=male

Notice the end of that URL - the two custom site variables are added to it "category=food&gender=male"

I haven't explain this well, but hopefully you get the idea.

There is a bit more doc on this here:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/open-video-ads/13058/openx-ova-configuration-guide

Not 100% sure this is what you are looking for but I hope it helps..

Paul

Posted: Tue, 2011-06-21 06:19 Neil

Thanks very much for your help Paul.
Cheers

Neil

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