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Google Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI)

Google DAI is a Server-Side Ad-Insertion solution offered by Goggle where THEOplayer is pre-integrated and offers playback for HLS and DASH Streams. A demo can be found at https://demo.theoplayer.com/google-dai.

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SDKs

Web SDK Android SDK iOS SDK tvOS SDK Android TV SDK Chromecast SDK
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Prerequisites

Web SDK

  1. Your THEOplayer SDK needs to have the Google-dai module enabled.
  2. You need to include the Google-dai JavaScript SDK as this is a dependency.

Android SDK

  1. Your THEOplayer SDK needs to have the Google-dai module enabled.
  2. You need to include the Google-dai Dependancy library in your Android project.

iOS SDK

  1. Your THEOplayer SDK needs to have the Google-dai module enabled.
  2. You need to include the Google-dai (Interactive Media Ads SDK) framework.

Starting Template

Web SDK

The first thing you need is a valid THEOplayer set-up. If you have no experience with setting up our player, we have an excellent getting started guide.

To get THEOplayer to work, you only need to do three things:

  1. Reference the THEOplayer JavaScript library (and optionally the default CSS styles).
  2. Add a container which can hold your video player with HTML.
  3. Create your player through JavaScript using our API.

A basic HTML page with a working THEOplayer could like the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>THEOplayer 3.X: Getting Started</title>
        <metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href='/path/to/ui.css'><!-- ads THEOplayer CSS -->
    </head>
    <body>
    
        <div class="theoplayer-container video-js theoplayer-skin theo-seekbar-above-controls"></div>
        
        <script type='text/javascript'src='/path/to/THEOplayer.js'></script><!-- ads THEOplayer library -->
        <script>
        
            var element = document.querySelector('.theoplayer-container'); 
            var player = new THEOplayer.Player(element);
            
            player.source = {
                sources : [{
                    src : 'your.m3u8',
                    type : 'application/x-mpegurl'
                }]
            };
        
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href='/path/to/ui.css'>
<script type='text/javascript'src='/path/to/THEOplayer.js'></script>

The two snippets above are the references to the JS and CSS library.

<div class="theoplayer-container video-js theoplayer-skin theo-seekbar-above-controls"></div>

The snippet above is your HTML container.

<script>

var element = document.querySelector('.theoplayer-container'); 
var player = new THEOplayer.Player(element);

player.source = {
    sources : [{
        src : 'your.mpd',
        type : 'application/dash+xml'
    }]
};

</script>

The snippet above initializes your player, including a HLS source.

Integrating Google-DAI

Web SDK

Add a Google DAI javascript library.

 <script type="text/javascript" src="//imasdk.googleapis.com/js/sdkloader/ima3_dai.js"></script>

Add a Google DAI ad configuration to the sources.

const TYPES = {
        hls: 'application/vnd.apple.mpegurl',
        dash: 'application/dash+xml'
};

// example and reference tester at https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/dai/vastinspector
    const SOURCES = {
        dash: {
            vod: {
                integration: 'google-dai',
                availabilityType: 'vod',
                apiKey: null,
                contentSourceID: '<contentSourceID>',
                videoID: '<videoID>',
            },
            live: {
                integration: 'google-dai',
                availabilityType: 'live',
                apiKey: null,
                assetKey: '<assetKey>',
            }
        },
        hls: {
            vod: {
                integration: 'google-dai',
                availabilityType: 'vod',
                apiKey: null,
                contentSourceID: '<contentSourceID>',
                videoID: '<videoID>'
            },
            live: {
                integration: 'google-dai',
                availabilityType: 'live',
                apiKey: null,
                assetKey: '<assetKey>',
            }
        }
    };
    // Configure THEOplayer Source
    const MANIFEST_TYPE = 'hls'; // 'hls' / 'dash'
    const AVAILABILITY_TYPE = 'vod'; // 'vod' or 'live'

    player.source = {
        sources: {
            type: TYPES[MANIFEST_TYPE],
            ssai: SOURCES[MANIFEST_TYPE][AVAILABILITY_TYPE]
        }
    };

Android SDK

Add a Google DAI dependancy in the build.gradle file of your project.

//Google Dai library
implementation 'com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3:interactivemedia:3.19.0'

Add a Google DAI ad configuration to the sources.

//Dash Vod
SourceDescription sourceVod = sourceDescription(
                daiTypedSource(
                        new GoogleDaiVodConfiguration.Builder("api_key", "content_source_id", "video_id").build()
                ).type(SourceType.DASH).build()
        ).build();

 //HLS Vod       
SourceDescription sourceVod = sourceDescription(
                daiTypedSource(
                         new GoogleDaiVodConfiguration.Builder("api_key", "content_source_id", "video_id").build()
                ).type(SourceType.HLS).build()
        ).build();
//HLS Live
SourceDescription sourceLive = sourceDescription(
                daiTypedSource(
                         new GoogleDaiLiveConfiguration.Builder("api_key", "asset_key").build()
                ).type(SourceType.HLS).build()
        ).build();
//DASH Live       
SourceDescription sourceLive = sourceDescription(
                daiTypedSource(
                         new GoogleDaiLiveConfiguration.Builder("api_key", "asset_key").build()
                ).type(SourceType.DASH).build()
        ).build();     
// Configuring THEOplayer with defined SourceDescription object.
        theoPlayer.setSource(sourceVod);      //VOD Source
      //theoPlayer.setSource(sourceLive);     //Live Source

iOS SDK

Add a Google-dai (Interactive Media Ads SDK) framework to your project.

Step 1. Download Google-dai (Interactive Media Ads SDK) framework

Step 2. Check How to Configure Framework Section to add Googel-dai Framework

Add a Google DAI ad configuration to the sources.

//Google DAI HLS VOD Stream
private var GoogleDAIVOD: SourceDescription {
           let daiConfig = GoogleDAIVodConfiguration(videoID: "tears-of-steel", contentSourceID: "19463", apiKey: "", authToken: nil, streamActivityMonitorID: nil, adTagParameters: nil)
           let typedSource = GoogleDAITypedSource(ssai: daiConfig)
           return SourceDescription(source: typedSource)
    }
//Google DAI HLS VOD Stream
private var GoogleDAILIVE: SourceDescription {
           let daiConfig = GoogleDAILiveConfiguration(assetKey: "sN_IYUG8STe1ZzhIIE_ksA", apiKey: "", authToken: nil, streamActivityMonitorID: nil, adTagParameters: nil)
           let typedSource = GoogleDAITypedSource(ssai: daiConfig)
           return SourceDescription(source: typedSource)
       }
// Configure the player's source to initilaise playback
theoplayer.source = GoogleDAIVOD  //VOD Source    
theoplayer.source = GoogleDAILIVE  //Live Source

Conclusion

THEOplayer SDK and Google-DAI are fully pre-integrate to deliver Server-Side Ad Insertion solution, allowing customers to play streams in a breeze.

Extra resources:

  1. Google DAI Pre-Integration API
  2. THEOplayer Getting Started Guide
  3. Google DAI website

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