Video Ad Serving Template

Video Ad Serving Template is a specification released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) that sets a standard for communication requirements between ad servers and video players.

It is a data structure declared using XML.

VAST has 6 versions: 1.0 (deprecated), 1.1 (deprecated),[1] 2.0, 2.0.1, 3.0[2] and 4.0[3]

Request

In order to play a video ad in a video player, the video player sends a request to a VAST ad server.

It is a simple HTTP based URL that typically appears as follows: http://www.example.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=1331&LR_CAMPAIGN_ID=229&LR_SCHEMA=vast2-vpaid

Response

The ad server responds with a VAST data structure that declares these parameters:

For example, the above request returns the following response (trimmed):

 1  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 2  <VAST version="2.0">
 3  <Ad id="229">
 4     	<InLine>
 5     		<AdSystem version="4.9.0-10">LiveRail</AdSystem>
 6     		<AdTitle><![CDATA[LiveRail creative 1]]></AdTitle>
 7     		<Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
 8     		<Impression id="LR"><![CDATA [http://t4.liverail.com/?metric=impression&cofl=0&pos=0&coid=135&pid=1331&nid=1331&oid=229&olid=2291331&cid=331&tpcid=&vid=&amid=&cc=default&pp=&vv=&tt=&sg=&tsg=&pmu=0&pau=0&psz=0&ctx=&tctx=&coty=0&adt=0&scen=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.longtailvideo.com%2Fsupport%2Fopen-video-ads%2F23120%2Fwhat-is-vast%2F&cb=1259.192.118.68.5.0.690&ver=1&w=&wy=&x=121&y=121&xy=0b79&z2=0]></Impression>
 9  			.......
10  		<Creatives>
11  			<Creative sequence="1" id="331">
12             			<Linear>
13             				<Duration>00:00:09</Duration>
14  	                        <TrackingEvents>
15         	                    		<Tracking event="firstQuartile"><![CDATA [http://t4.liverail.com/?metric=view25&pos=0&coid=135&pid=1331&nid=1331&oid=229&olid=2291331&cid=331&tpcid=&vid=&amid=&cc=default&pp=&vv=&tt=&sg=&tsg=&pmu=0&pau=0&psz=0&ctx=&tctx=&coty=0&adt=0&scen=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.longtailvideo.com%2Fsupport%2Fopen-video-ads%2F23120%2Fwhat-is-vast%2F&cb=1259.192.118.68.5.0.690&ver=1&w=&wy=&x=&y=&xy=]></Tracking>
16                             		<Tracking event="midpoint"><![CDATA [http://t4.liverail.com/?metric=view50&pos=0&coid=135&pid=1331&nid=1331&oid=229&olid=2291331&cid=331&tpcid=&vid=&amid=&cc=default&pp=&vv=&tt=&sg=&tsg=&pmu=0&pau=0&psz=0&ctx=&tctx=&coty=0&adt=0&scen=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.longtailvideo.com%2Fsupport%2Fopen-video-ads%2F23120%2Fwhat-is-vast%2F&cb=1259.192.118.68.5.0.690&ver=1&w=&wy=&x=&y=&xy=]></Tracking>
17                            		.......
18                         		</TrackingEvents>         
19                         		<VideoClicks>
20             		     		<ClickThrough><![CDATA [http://t4.liverail.com/?metric=clickthru&pos=0&coid=135&pid=1331&nid=1331&oid=229&olid=2291331&cid=331&tpcid=&vid=&amid=&cc=default&pp=&vv=&tt=&sg=&tsg=&pmu=0&pau=0&psz=0&ctx=&tctx=&coty=0&adt=0&scen=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.longtailvideo.com%2Fsupport%2Fopen-video-ads%2F23120%2Fwhat-is-vast%2F&cb=1259.192.118.68.5.0.690&ver=1&w=&wy=&x=&y=&xy=&redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fliverail.com%2F]></ClickThrough>
21             			</VideoClicks>
22                         		<MediaFiles>
23         					<MediaFile delivery="progressive" bitrate="256" width="480" height="352" type="video/x-flv"><![CDATA [http://cdn.liverail.com/adasset4/1331/229/331/lo.flv]></MediaFile>
24         					......
25     				</MediaFiles>
26     				</Linear>
27     			</Creative>
28     		</Creatives>
29     	</InLine>
30     </Ad>
31  </VAST>

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