Review SDK support and compatibility

Page Summary

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• The Google IMA SDKs support HTML5, iOS, Android, and tvOS platforms with specific version requirements for iOS, Android, and tvOS.

• Various ad types including linear, non-linear, and companion ads are supported across different platforms.

• The IMA SDKs support a wide range of IAB Video Suite and Ad Manager/Ad Exchange video features, with some feature availability varying by platform.

• Some features, like VAST 4 and VMAP, have specific limitations or require custom implementations on certain platforms.

• Several older SDK versions, including Flash v2 and Google Cast v2, are obsolete, and alternatives for serving client-side ads on Google Cast are available.

Supported video player platforms

The Google IMA SDKs are supported on the following platforms:

Video features and SDK versions

To learn more about the following features, read video advertising overview .

HTML5 v3

iOS v3

Android v3

tvOS

IAB Video Suite

VAST 4

9

9

9

9

VAST 3

1

1

1

VAST 2

SIMID 1.0

VPAID 2 (HTML5)

VMAP 1.0.1

2 3

2

2

2

OM SDK 1.3

Ad Manager Video features

Linear ads

YouTube-hosted assets

4

Non-linear ads (Overlays)

5

Companions

VAST 3 alternate companion ad resources

Active View viewability

Audio ads

VAST Redirects

Companion backfill with display request

Google Publisher Tag (GPT) compatibility

Content awareness

Ad rules

3

Manual ad breaks in ad rules

Frequency caps 6

Competitive exclusions (stream)

Competitive exclusions (pod)

Competitive exclusions (whole page)

Podding

3

Bumpers

Reporting on multi-event tracking (MET)

Dynamic allocation (AdSense for video, Ad Manager Ad Exchange)

Skippable (non-TrueView) 8

5

InStream Select

Asset Preloading

7

AdSense for Video features

TrueView InStream

5

InStream Select

Standard InStream

Full-slot

Companions

Companion backfill

Overlays

5

Asset Preloading

7

Ad Manager Ad Exchange features

TrueView InStream

5

InStream Select

Standard InStream

Full-slot

Companions

Companion backfill

Overlays

5

Active View viewability

Asset Preloading

7

Why This Ad?

¹ The following VAST 3.0 features are not yet supported in the non-HTML5 SDKs:

• Companion adSlotId
• Companion delivery options
• Icons

² The following VMAP features are not yet supported:

• VMAP-specific tracking events
• VMAP-specific error codes
• Overlay ads
• Time offsets other than hh:mm:ss or "start" and "end"
• Display breakType attribute
• repeatAfter attribute

³ Support for VMAP and ad rules on iPhone requires custom ad playback.

⁴ YouTube-hosted creatives are supported on the desktop but not on mobile web.

⁵ Non-linear ads (Overlays), Skippable (non-TrueView), and TrueView InStream ads are supported on HTML5 mobile web on iOS 10+ when playsinline is used .

⁶ Ad rules frequency caps and competitive exclusions require cookies or PPID.

⁷ Native asset preload does not work with the following:

• Mobile web on iOS devices
• Mobile web on Android pre-4.0
• YouTube-hosted ads, including TrueView formats
• IMA manual break playback feature (any implementation that relies on the AD_BREAK_READY event)

⁸ The SDK does not support skippable ads that are less than 8 seconds long. When ads shorter than the minimum length are played, the Skip button is not displayed.

⁹ Of the VAST 4 features supported by Google Ad Manager , IMA support the following features:

• VAST 4.2
  • Support for Secure Interactive Media Interface Definition (SIMID)
  • Allowance of multiple UniversalAdID nodes
• VAST 4.0
  • AdID
  • Mezzanine file
  • New VAST error codes
  • AdVerifications support

Deprecated SDKs

Flash v2

HTML5 v1

iOS v1

Android v1

Google Cast v2

Ad Manager Video features

Linear ads

Non-linear ads

Interactive (VPAID 1.0) ads

Redirects (VAST 2.0)

Companion backfill (AdSense for video, Ad Manager Ad Exchange)

Audio ads

Google Publisher Tag (GPT) compatibility

Frequency caps

Competitive exclusions (stream)

Competitive exclusions (pod)

Competitive exclusions (whole page)

Content awareness

Ad Rules and Manual ad breaks in ad rules

Podding

Bumpers

Multi-event tracking (MET) for reporting

Dynamic allocation

Skippable

InStream Select

AdSense for Video features

Text ads

AdSense VAST InStream

AdSense overlay

Skippable

InStream Select

User Choice (YouTube)

F2F ads in Ad Manager

Ad Manager Ad Exchange features

Linear ads