DAI Pod Serving is a beta intended for advanced Ad Manager publishers and video technology partners who either have an in-house manifest manipulation service or are currently using third-party manifest manipulation that's already integrated with DAI. Contact your account manager for details.
Set up a live/linear channel and share the DAI ad tag
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Identify where to enable DAI Pod Serving or have a new channel created.
Your in-house or third-party partner should update the channel configuration utilizing the DAI Pod Serving integration .
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Provide the DAI ad tag for the live channel to the in-house or third-party partner who should then:
- Implement the ad tag
- Create playback profiles and corresponding live stream events in Ad Manager
- Create DAI authentication keys
and associate them with the
LiveStreamEventobject
- By default, the channel uses the default slate specified in your Ad Manager network. You can manually change the slate using the Live Streams page in Ad Manager or API .
Implement the IMA SDK on the player
Stream content
Once the IMA SDK is implemented on the player :
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Perform a stream create request via the SDK, supplying:
- Your Ad Manager network code
- You Ad Manager asset key
The SDK then returns a
stream_id. -
Configure the initial playback request to the application and include the following:
- The
stream_idreturned from the SDK - The ad configuration containing the Ad Manager network code
- The
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When the application generates a live stream session:
- Ad breaks are filled with ads selected by Ad Manager
- Ad beacons are sent by Ad Manager
- Ad debug data is available in Ad Manager
