VAST (Video Ad Serving Template)
VAST or Video Ad Serving Template is a general specification developed by the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) for serving video ads. Basically, it is a script which is providing constant instructions to your video player on how to manage an ad. It tells your video player where to find the ad (i.e. the ad server), how long it should display, what the click-thru URL should be, what the ad should do — how it should show up in the player…
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VPAID (Video Player-Ad Interface Definition)
VPAID or Video Player-Ad Interface Definition is a common specification developed by the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) for interaction between video players and ad units, focused on enabling a rich interactive in-stream ad experience. It is basically a script that instructs a video player on where to place the actions: play, pause, what ad to play, when to surface the ad and the length of the ad. This specification is particularly useful for live audio streaming service as it allows for…
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Content Delivery Network (CDN)
A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of global servers (network) that catches and delivers social networks, live streaming media, downloadable objects (documents, software, media files), web objects (scripts, graphics and text), on-demand streaming media and applications (portals, e-commerce) to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, irrespective of the origin of the content and a content delivery server. How CDN Works? The browser downloads every referenced asset from a single origin server, when a user…
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Live Streaming
Live streaming is the process of broadcasting real-time, video feed or live video footage to an audience over the internet. The viewer can access the video stream on a digital screen, smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. Live streaming requires a form of source media (e.g. an existing feed, a video camera, screen capture software, an audio interface), an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network (CDN) to distribute as well as deliver the content. …
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