Record your ad breaks

List the pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll and bumper slots on each channel. Your VMAP playlist schedules them.

The Ad Breaks page lists the ad slots each channel has: where they sit, how long they run and how many ads each holds. Your VMAP playlist schedules exactly these breaks. The list is also one of the steps in your getting-started checklist.

Steps

1. Open Ad Breaks and select Add Break.
2. Choose the Channel. Only your own channels can be chosen.
3. Choose the Break Type: pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll or bumper.
4. For a mid-roll, set Starts at (seconds): how far into the content the break plays. Pre-rolls and bumpers play at the start and post-rolls at the end, so the field is off for them.
5. Optionally set Length (s), the longest the break can run, up to 600 seconds, and Pod Size, the number of ads in it, from 1 to 10.
6. For linear TV, enter the SCTE-35 Cue ID that matches the signal in your stream.
7. Save the break.

The four boxes at the top count your breaks by type. The channel menu above the list filters it.

What the list is used for

• Your VMAP playlist. A channel with breaks on this list gets those breaks in its playlist: pre-rolls and bumpers at the start, each mid-roll at its start time, post-rolls at the end. A mid-roll that starts at or after the end of the content length you give the playlist is left out. Each break asks for an ad no longer than its length. A pod size above 1 asks for a pod of up to that many ads within the length. A channel with no breaks gets the default playlist: a pre-roll, one mid-roll halfway through and a post-roll.
• It completes the Configure an ad break step of your getting-started checklist.
• Operators that carry your channel can see its break plan in their linear schedule. That view reads the start time, length and pod size.

What it does not do

• It does not change which ads are chosen for a break. A bumper break only gets LtvAdx advertiser ads if the channel has Bumper Ads (≤6s) ticked on Channels & Apps.
• It does not limit how often your player asks for ads.

If you want to tell buyers how many breaks an hour to expect, use Ad breaks an hour on Inventory. That is a statement to buyers and is not tied to this list.

Edit or remove a break

Select a row to edit it. You can change everything except the channel. The bin deletes the break; your VMAP playlist stops scheduling it within a minute.

Owner, admin and manager seats can add, edit and delete breaks. Other seats see the list only.