Some video and audio features and settings might not be enabled for your network. See which Video Solutions features are available to you or contact your account manager.
Ad Manager supports four types of video creatives: video, overlay, redirect, and set-top box; and two types of audio creatives: audio, and audio redirect.
Media files uploaded to Ad Manager must be a minimum of 0.3 seconds.
Add a new creative from a line item
To add a video or audio creative independent of a line item:
Click Delivery Creatives
VAST creatives
New creative.
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Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
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Click Delivery
Line items.
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Open your video and audio line item.
You can optionally click Video and audio in the "Line items" menu to see only video and audio line items. You may have to click More in the "Line items" menu to choose "Video and audio".
- Click Creatives
- Select the size of the creative and choose from the available creative types.
- Configure the settings. For audio creatives, choose Audio as the size.
- Click Save.
Once you've added a VAST creative to a line item, you can reuse the creative in other line items.
Settings for video and audio creatives
Some of these settings are optional, and not all settings are available for all creative types.
Skippable video
The "Skippable video" setting is available for video creative types. This setting allows the user to skip the video ad after 5 seconds. If you're using VAST 3 or 4, the network-level skip time can be changed in the "Skippable skip time" setting in the "Video and audio" section of the "Admin" tab.
While any video ad can be set to skippable, use caution for video ads with shorter durations. For example, you may want to deactivate this setting for a 7-second creative serving to a bumper position.
Ad Manager hosted or externally hosted video
Video creatives that use Ad Manager hosted or externally hosted video files can set the "Skippable video" setting to either Enabled or Disabled.
YouTube hosted video
Publishers that use Cross-sell for YouTube and video creatives that use YouTube hosted video files should set the "Skippable video" setting to In-stream select (rather than "Enabled").
In-stream select is a YouTube skippable creative format used in Ad Manager reservation (guaranteed) campaigns and sold on a CPM basis. There is a 30 second maximum duration for in‑stream select creatives.
In-stream select shouldn't be confused with TrueView in-stream ads, which are used in auction (non-guaranteed) campaigns and sold on a CPV (cost per completed view) basis. TrueView ads have no maximum duration. Only in-stream select is trafficked in Ad Manager; the auction for TrueView is handled by YouTube.
Skippable tracking
The "Skippable tracking" setting is available for redirect creative types. If activated, and a skippable ad is returned from the VAST redirect, Ad Manager allows VAST skippable tracking on the line item and creative. If deactivated, and a skippable ad is returned, Ad Manager does not allow VAST skippable tracking.
This setting does not force a VAST redirect to be skippable. The skip time of a redirect creative cannot be controlled by Ad Manager.
Ad ID
Ad Manager currently supports the ad-id.org and clearcast.co.uk registries.
- The ad-id.org identifiers must be four letters followed by seven or eight numbers or letters (for example,
ABCD1234567orABCD123456EF. - The clearcast.co.uk clock numbers should have three letters followed by a slash ("
/"), four letter and three numbers followed by a slash ("/") and three numbers (for example,AAA/BBBB123/456).
SSL compatible
The "SSL compatible" setting determines whether the creative is compatible with SSL pages, which begin with https://. By default, Ad Manager detects the SSL status automatically and serves to secure pages where compatible. You can select Manual to set the compatibility status manually. If set to Not compatible, it's not served to secure pages.
Labels
The "Labels" setting allows you to group objects.
Learn more about labels.
Custom parameters
The "Custom parameters" appear in the VAST AdParameters field and are used by the SDK.
- Custom parameters are not available for redirect creatives.
- For all except VPAID creatives, enter custom parameters as key-value pairs, separated by commas (for example,
key=value,key=value). - For VPAID creatives, custom parameters are a string (not key-value pairs) passed to the creative from the SDK.
Third-party tracking URLs
Both "Third-party tracking URLs" and "Third-party impression tracking URLs" are used to measure ad metrics (not content metrics). These can provides details on user interaction with creatives for reporting and analytics purposes. You can enter multiple URLs for each type of tracking (except survey, custom click and click tracking, which only support one URL each). Redirects are not supported for survey URLs.
Internal redirect to Google Campaign Manager 360
When selected, Ad Manager calls the Display & Video 360 tag internally within the same server, rather than passing a VAST redirect to be executed by the client.
Allow multiple impressions from trusted server-side ad insertion (SSAI) (Beta) : Available in the advanced settings of redirect creative types, you can allow trusted SSAI partners to accurately count and report all valid ad impressions to Ad Manager, for single video redirects returned by Ad Manager.
All impressions from the redirect have the same position in pod as the redirect. Multiple ads in the redirect are treated as a single position.
This feature is only for MRC-accredited SSAIs, which is currently limited to Google Ad Manager DAI. A non-accredited SSAI will continue to count only 1 impression per redirect.
Custom field
These optional custom fields can be used to organize objects in reports. They're created in the Admin tab. They don't affect ad serving or delivery.
