Slideshow
Overview
Formerly named "Mobile Slideshow". The "Slideshow" creative template displays an ad with an infinite number of image/video slides. Users can view the slides by swiping or tapping the arrow button.
Demo
Compliancy
| Criterion | Compliancy |
|---|---|
| Creative rotation & creative targeting | ❌ |
| Friendly iFrame | ✅ |
| IFrame buster | ❌ |
| Multi-instance | ✅ |
| Responsive web design | ❌ |
| RTB | ❌ |
Creatives
- Ratio: any ratio is accepted, remember that all creatives should have the same ratio
- Dimensions: all sizes are accepted, remember that all creatives should have the same size
- Minimum number of slides (creatives): 2
- Maximum number of slides (creatives): no maximum
- Supported file formats: image and video (.mp4 h264)
Parameters
| Name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| Animation type | Specifies the animation type. | slide |
| Arrows color | Specifies the color of the arrows. | #ffffff |
| Auto play | The number of seconds between automatically proceeding to the next slide; disabled when set to 0. | 5 |
| Border line color | Specifies the color of the border line. | #cccccc |
| Creative background color | Specifies the creative background color which will be visible between slides. | #000000 |
| Label text | Specifies the label displayed above the ad. | Advertisement |
| Label text font color | Specifies the label text color. | #cccccc |
| Label text font size | Specifies the label font size. | 12 |
| Loop | Sets the loop mode. | true |
| Show border line | Specifies if a border line should appear around the ad. | true |
| Tracking url | Make sure you add [timestamp] to the URL for cache busting. |
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| Transparent background | Sets the creative background to transparent - this will override the "Creative background color" parameter. | false |
Features
Formerly named "Mobile Slideshow". The "Slideshow" creative template displays an ad with an infinite number of image/video slides. Users can view the slides by swiping or tapping the arrow button.
Metrics
This ad format supports interaction tracking. Each change of slide is logged in reports (metric name: "adslidecount"). In case of video slides, the interaction event is fired upon click on the play button.
Limitations
n/a
Known issues
Swiping and the arrows do not work on the video element in iOS 8 or earlier.
Release notes
March 5, 2025
- Updated the generation of action pixels.
April 16, 2024
- Fixed rendering in a friendly iframe.
January 24, 2024
- Removed support for obsolete macros.
January 3, 2024
- Added support for viewability.
May 4, 2023
- Fixed the position of control arrows.
April 17, 2023
- Updated the
sas-libsversion to 1.1 and removeddocument.writefrom the EMP creative template.
January 3, 2023
- Fixed rendering of more than one ad on a page.
October 18, 2022
- Removed the "app" environment from the template.
August 16, 2022
- Fixed the video preview image on iOS devices.
July 21, 2022
- Added redirect by click for video creatives.