Schedule FreeWheel ads

If you have an existing relationship with FreeWheel, you can configure JW Player's FreeWheel plugin to gain access to their video ad inventory. Be sure you have all the required items in the Requirements section.

Requirements

• JW Player advertising requirements
• All FreeWheel account information listed in the following table

If you do not know where to find the FreeWheel account values in the table, contact your FreeWheel account representative.

Add a single ad break for all playlist items

Use the following steps and code samples to add a pre-roll ad to an embedded player.

1. Within setup() of an embedded JW Player web player, define the fwassetid property as the name of your FreeWheel asset id.
2. Add an advertising object.
3. Define the client property within the advertising object as freewheel.
4. Add a freewheel object within the advertising object. Define the networkid, serverid, profileid, sectionid, and adManagerURL properties with your FreeWheel account settings.
5. (Optional) If you have custom key-value pairs that you want to send with your ad call, add a custom object and define each key-value pair.
6. Define the adscheduleid property within the advertising object. Assign a randomly-generated, eight character, alpha-numeric value to this property. This allows you to analyze performance data by ad schedule.
7. Add a schedule array within the advertising object. Assign fw-preroll to the tag property. This creates an ad tag placeholder.
   
   

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As a shortcut, you can define advertising.tag (String) to create a single pre-roll ad break. If you use this shortcut, you cannot add multiple ad breaks.


The advertising.tag property and advertising.schedule[] property cannot be used in the same advertising object.

jwplayer("myElement").setup({
  "playlist": "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/playlists/{playlist_id}", 
  "fwassetid": "freewheel_asset_id",
  "advertising": {
    "client": "freewheel",
    "freewheel": {
      "networkid": {freewheel_network_id},
      "serverid": "{freewheel_server_id}",
      "profileid": "{freewheel_profile_id}",
      "sectionid": "{freewheel_section_id}",
      "adManagerURL": "{freewheel_ad_manager_url}",
      "custom": {
        "key1": "val1",
        "key2": "val2"
      }  
    },
    "adscheduleid": "Az87bY12",
    "schedule": [
      {
        "tag": "fw-preroll"
      }
    ]
  }
});

You can build upon this basic implementation by adding multiple ad breaks or defining ad rules. Currently, Player Bidding cannot be configured when using FreeWheel.

Add multiple ad breaks for all playlist items

Use the following steps to add multiple ad breaks to the previous FreeWheel pre-roll example:

1. In the existing advertising.schedule index, define the offset property as pre. When setting multiple ad breaks, each index must have an explicitly defined offset.
2. Define an additional index within the advertising.schedule array.
3. Assign a placeholder to the tag property. Each ad break should have a different placeholder name (fw-midroll1, fw-midroll2, fw-postroll).
4. When defining the offset property, choose one of the following values to schedule a mid-roll ad. Post-roll ads are not currently supported for FreeWheel ad implementations.
   
   Mid-roll
     - {number}: (String) Ad plays after the specified number of seconds.
     - {timecode}: (String) Ad plays at a specific time, in hh:mm:ss:mmm format.
   
   

jwplayer("myElement").setup({
  "playlist": "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/playlists/{playlist_id}",
  "fwassetid": "{freewheel_asset_id}",
  "advertising": {
    "client": "freewheel",
    "freewheel": {
      "networkid": {freewheel_network_id},
      "serverid": "{freewheel_server_id}",
      "profileid": "{freewheel_profile_id}",
      "sectionid": "{freewheel_section_id}",
      "adManagerURL": "{freewheel_ad_manager_url}",
      "custom": {
        "key1": "val1",
        "key2": "val2"
      } 
    },
    "adscheduleid": "Az87bY12",
    "schedule": [
      {
        "offset": "pre",
        "tag": "fw-preroll"
      },
      {
        "offset": 10,
        "tag": "fw-midroll1"
      },
      {
        "offset": "00:00:15:000",
        "tag": "fw-midroll2"
      },
      {
        "offset": "25%",
        "tag": "fw-midroll3"
      }
    ]
  }
});

You can build upon this implementation by defining ad rules. Currently, Player Bidding cannot be configured when using FreeWheel.

Specify ad content for a specific playlist item

Use the following steps to specify advertising content for a specific playlist item. If you do not apply these steps to a playlist item, the default FreeWheel advertising content will play.

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To configure advertising for a specific playlist item, the playlist object must be organized as an array of objects.

1. For a specific array item within the playlist array, define the fwassetid property as the name of the FreeWheel asset id you want to use for this specific array item.
2. Add a freewheel object within the array item. Define the networkid, serverid, profileid, and sectionid properties with the FreeWheel account settings for the FreeWheel asset.
3. (Optional) If you have custom key-value pairs that you want to send with your ad call, add a custom object and define each key-value pair.

In the following example, {media_id1} will play {freewheel_asset_id1}. And, {media_id2} will play {freewheel_asset_id_default}.

jwplayer("myElement").setup({
  "playlist":  [
    {
      "file": "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/{media_id1}",
      "fwassetid": "{freewheel_asset_id1}",
      "freewheel": {
        "networkid": {freewheel_network_id},
        "serverid": "{freewheel_server_id}",
        "profileid": "{freewheel_profile_id}",
        "sectionid": "{freewheel_section_id}",
        "custom": {
          "key3": "val3",
          "key4": "val4"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "file": "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/{media_id2}"
    }    
  ]   
  "fwassetid": "{freewheel_asset_id_default}",
  "advertising": {
    "client": "freewheel",
    "freewheel": {
      "networkid": {freewheel_network_id},
      "serverid": "{freewheel_server_id}",
      "profileid": "{freewheel_profile_id}",
      "sectionid": "{freewheel_section_id}",
      "adManagerURL": "{freewheel_ad_manager_url}",
      "custom": {
        "key1": "val1",
        "key2": "val2"
      } 
    },
    "adscheduleid": "Az87bY12",
    "schedule": [
      {
        "offset": "pre",
        "tag": "fw-preroll"
      },
      {
        "offset": 10,
        "tag": "fw-midroll1"
      },
      {
        "offset": "00:00:15:000",
        "tag": "fw-midroll2"
      },
      {
        "offset": "25%",
        "tag": "fw-midroll3"
      }
    ]
  }
});