Instant Video

Summary

Create a video ad from a YouTube URL, Vimeo URL, or URL to a raw video file. In some cases (such as Instagram), URLs to posts with videos may be entered. You may also supply text, a photo, and logo.

Event Tracking

In addition to core event tracking, this ad format also tracks these events:

  • Video Plays: If any posts contained video, how many times they were played in total

Setup / Inputs

These are the fields / inputs taken to generate this ad. In general, inputs are not required. That said, these inputs are how you customize the ad!

  • Video: A Vimeo URL, YouTube URL, URL to a raw video file, or in some cases, the URL to a page with a video
    Default value:
    https://vimeo.com/193674451

  • Placeholder Image: For video URLs only (not YouTube or Vimeo) — an optional image to use as a video placeholder (defaults to the first video frame)
    Default value:
    [empty]

  • Logo: A logo for this advertiser
    Default value:
    [empty]

  • Advertiser Name: A title for the photo/picture, or perhaps the advertiser's name
    Default value:
    Advertiser Title

  • Text: The description text to display below the photo
    Default value:
    [empty]

  • Destination: Where the user should be taken when they click the ad
    Default value:
    [empty]

  • Width: The maximum width of the ad
    Default value:
    300px

  • Autoplay on Mute?: Should the video autoplay? This is only supported in some browsers
    Default value:
    False

Embed An Example In Your Media Kit

Customers who wish to embed the example on some "Media Kit" page on their website can do so in one of two ways:

  • Option 1: If you have Wordpress and the Broadstreet plugin, you can use this shortcode anywhere in any post to render the example. 

    [broadstreet ad="103347"]

  • Option 2: If you do not have Wordpress, or choose not install the Broadstreet plugin, you can embed this javascript code snippet into your post: 

    <div street-address="103347"></div><script>
(function(d, s) {
  // CLICK MACRO AND CONFIGURATION SECTION
  var destination = '%%CLICK_URL_ESC%%';
  // DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
  var js, bjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  js = d.createElement(s); js.async = true;
  js.src = "//ad.broadstreetads.com/display/103347.js?sa=1&"
    + (window.broadstreet ? 'init=0' : '')
    + (destination.indexOf('CLICK_URL_ESC') >= 0
      ? '' : '&destination=' + destination);
  bjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, bjs);
}(document, 'script'));</script>