2023-05-16

Ad breaks for Virtual Channels

You can now create ad break slots in Virtual Channel services.

This is very similar to live ad replacement for Ad Insertion services, except that ad breaks are explicitly created through slots, rather than through SCTE-35 markers detected in the live source.

You first need to configure Ad Insertion for your Virtal Channel service, by selecting an Ad Server and an optional Gap Filler.

You may select a transcoding profile, which may be used for transcoding the inserted ads and/or the Gap Filler.

Server-Side Ad Tracking (SSAT) is supported and may be enabled, as well as the ad media segments availability check.

You can then create slots of type ad-break, which are identical to content slots, except that they do not need a replacement source.

For more details please check our Knowledge Center, and our API reference for Virtual Channel services and for Virtual Channel slots.