How to use Pre-Roll ADVERTISEMENT using Video Clip Upload on Videos

CASTNEST is aware that videos must include adverts to make money through the content. Publishers have always wished for this connection to have flexible options. There are several ways to add integrations in CASTNEST. We'll concentrate on pre-roll video ad insertion in this article.

Let's read through the following document.

Open the CASTNEST portal, then choose "Videos" from the drop-down menu. Your uploaded videos will be listed there.

Please read the paper to learn "How to Upload Videos." if you haven't already. 

When you click on a video uploaded, the video control panel's "General" section will open up for editing.

From the video control panel, choose "Advertisement".

Here you have multiple options for pre-roll ad insertion.

• Video Upload
• Upload Image
• Make use of a custom ad server URL.
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We will focus on the video ad upload in this document. By default, pre-roll configuration options will be visible with the Upload Video radio button selected.

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Video Upload

• In the video upload option, you can upload a video clip you want to play before the video starts. Click on the grey box with the white box that has a cloud and an animated up arrow, and your local system file manager window will pop up. Choose the directory where the ads are. Choose a video clip and press the Select or Upload button on the file manager. This naming convention to upload the file will depend on your operating system. The uploaded videos get saved in the storage area of your account.

The uploaded ad video will appear in the player by replacing the grey box.

At the bottom of the player, the option to set the "Skip Timer" is available. In this case, if the publisher does not want to allow the viewer to skip the advertisement, the "Skippable-ad" toggle button will remove the skip ad option for the viewer, and the ad must play before playing the video. Let's switch off the "skippable-ad" and press the "save" button. The setting will be updated with a success alert at the top left corner of the screen with the title "Success" and the message "Successfully Updated."

Now it's time to test your video and see your ad in action Click on the After playing the ad, the published video will start auto-playing in the player. option of the video control panel and click on the player share button. A new browser window will open with the player playing the ad and will not have the option to skip the ad.

After playing the ad, the published video will start auto-playing in the player.

Let's implement the "Skippable Ad." Go back to the "Advertisement" option from the video control panel and turn on the "Skippable Ad" by clicking the toggle button. Set the seconds after which the viewer can skip the ad and press the save button. Again, the setting will update with a success alert at the top left corner of the screen with the title "Success" and the message "Successfully Updated."

Now go back to the "Sharing" option of the video control panel and click on the player share button. A new browser window will open with the player playing the ad. Now the viewer will have the option to skip the ad in 3 seconds.

After 3 seconds, the viewer will have the "Click to Skip" button to view the video.

Click on the button "Click to Skip," and the published ad disappears immediately, and the video will start playing automatically in the player.

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