How to use Stream Banner Advertisement using Image Upload

CASTNEST recognises that advertisements are essential components for live streams. It helps the publisher generates revenue from the published content. Publishers have always desired easily adaptable options for this integration. CASTNEST provides several options for adding integrations. This document focuses on banner ad placement.

Let's take a look at the document below.

Open the CASTNEST portal and navigate to the "Live Streams" section from the main menu. You'll see your newly created stream list.

Please refer to the document if you have not yet created a stream.

"How to Create a Stream using a Webcam."

"How to Create a Stream using PUSH."

"How to Create a Stream using PULL."

"How to Create a Stream using SRT."

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

• Video Upload
• Upload Image
• Make use of a custom ad server URL.

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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Image Upload

In the image upload option, you can upload an image you want to display as a "banner" at the bottom of the player before the stream 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 an image, press Select, and click the Upload button on the file manager. This naming convention to upload the file from the file manager will depend on your operating system. The uploader will save images to your account's storage space.

Publishers can delete the image uploaded using the "Red" circular icon at the top right corner of the uploaded image. Now re-upload another image using the same procedure used in the earlier step.

Now it's time to test your stream and see your ad in action Click on the "Sharing" option of the stream control panel and click on the player share button. A new browser window will open with the player displaying the "Banner" ad with a cross button at the top right corner of the image to remove it from the display.

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