Prebid.js
This article explains how you can connect THEOplayer with Prebid.js. Prebid.js is an open-source header bidding solution. On the client-side, you can request bids from multiple ad networks, take a winning bid and select its associated advertisement. You want to configure and play this selected advertisement in THEOplayer.
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SDKs
| Web SDK | Android SDK | iOS SDK | tvOS SDK | Android TV SDK | Chromecast SDK | Roku SDK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A was selected because Prebid.js is a separate library. You can connect Prebid.js with THEOplayer on any platform that supports both Prebid.js and THEOplayer.
Connecting Prebid.js and THEOplayer
Prebid.js allows you to request bids. This request will respond with bids through a callback function. In this callback function, you have to select a winning bid, extract the ad tag URL. You can configure this URL as THEOplayer's ad source.
Code Examples
The code example below is based on the documentation offered by Prebid.org at http://prebid.org/dev-docs/examples/instream-banner-mix.html.
Web SDK
The sample application at https://jsfiddle.net/thijsl/hjcegyuw/ is an example of implementing Prebid.js on top of the THEOplayer Web SDK.
The example above schedules advertisements as pre-rolls (or mid-rolls or post-rolls). You can also dynamically schedule advertisements with the Ads API, as explained in "How to set up VAST and VMAP".
Android SDK
Refer to http://prebid.org/prebid-mobile/pbm-api/android/code-integration-android.html. The same THEOplayer API to configure advertisements is available on the Android SDK.
iOS/tvOS SDK and Legacy iOS/tvOS SDK (4.12.x)
Refer to http://prebid.org/prebid-mobile/pbm-api/ios/code-integration-ios.html. The same THEOplayer API to configure advertisements is available on the iOS SDK.
Resources
The following resources provide more information:
- https://prebid.org/overview/intro.html: What is Prebid?
- https://prebid.org/prebid-video/video-overview.html: Prebid.js for Video Overview
- https://prebid.org/prebid-video/video-getting-started.html: Getting started with Prebid.js for Video
- https://github.com/prebid/Prebid.js/tree/57c666626c269cdabb9aac6944a889f2b944f0c0/modules: Adapters on Github.
- https://github.com/prebid/Prebid.js/tree/master/modules: Information on how to connect with different bidders.
- Some adapters might provide test data. (e.g. https://github.com/prebid/Prebid.js/blob/57c666626c269cdabb9aac6944a889f2b944f0c0/modules/spotxBidAdapter.md)
