CBSi Hosted Pushdown FAQ
This FAQ answers a variety of common questions regarding CBSi Hosted Pushdowns
General
1. Where can I find the specs?
2. Where can I see a fully functional version of a CBSi hosted Pushdown?
3. What are the required deliverable assets for a pushdown?
4. Do you have any templates or example FLAs I can use?
5.Is there a tool I can use to help me see how the pushdown I'm building will look on a CBSi property?
6. What versions of flash do you accept?
8. Should I create separate SWFs for the expand and collapsed state?
9. Do I need to write my own timer to activate the pushdown and collapse animations?
10. Do I need to create my own pushdown / collapse animations in the SWF?
11. Will I be able to see the Pushdown effect locally in the SWF?
12. Do you support Age Gates?
13. Do I need to use the CBS tracking component for set up if this is going be trafficked to a 3rd party?
14. Where can I find more information about building pushdowns?
15. When should I use a 3rd party rather than the CBSi Hosted Pushdown?
16. I have more questions who can I contact?
Animation
17. Can I animate the transition between the collapsed and expanded state?18. How much time does the transition take to animate between the collapsed and expanded state?
19. What aspects of the pushdown are controlled on the hosting end?
20. Should my collapse animation and "pushup" frame label need to start on frame 1?
ActionScript
21. How do I add exit links?22. How do I add subloads?
23. Is there a "pushup" function?
24. Can I use an event listening to track a video ending playback and trigger collapse?
25. I'd like to create new functionality that I can't find any documentation on, will it work?
26. I'd like to use separate auto and user expand states.
Video
27. How do I implement Video? Do I need to use my own Video Player?28. Where do I find the CBSi Video Component?
29. Do I embed the video in directly in the SWF?
30. Do you support streaming video?
31. Can I have multiple videos?
32. What Video Controls are supported?
33. Will I be able to view my video playing back in my ad locally?
34. I've set up the Video component correctly but the video is not appearing. What should I do?
35. How does audio muting and unmuting work?
Frequently Asked Questions
If you do not see your question here, please send all technical help inquiries to Richmediaconsulting@cbsinteractive.com.
General
1. Where can I find the specs?
http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertise/ad_specs.php
2. Where can I see a fully functional version of a CBSi hosted Pushdown?
http://reports.madison.cnet.com/cmi/screenShot.cgi?segmentId=483201&URL=www.cnet.com
3. What are the required deliverable assets for a pushdown?
4. Do you have any templates or example FLAs I can use?
A template is available for the 970x66 creative size at the following link:
http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertise/templates/Template_OPA_970x66.zip
Yes. You can use the pushdown preview tool linked below to upload you creative, video, and view your creative before and after the frequency cap. http://adreports.zen.cnet.com/cmi/cgi-bin/madison/pushdownQa/pushdownQa.cgi
Contact your sales rep for the login and password.
6. What versions of flash and action script do you accept?
We accept flash versions 7, 8, 9 and 10 with Actionscript 2 for pushdowns. Action Script 3 is not supported for CBSi Hosted Rich Media at this time.
7. Are there templates for other sizes besides 970x66?
At this time we only provide a template for the 970x66 standard but the template can be resized for other creative sizes.
8. Should I create separate SWFs for the expand and collapsed state?
No. Expand and collapse states for CBSI hosted pushdowns are contained within a single SWF.
9. Do I need to write my own timer to activate the pushdown and collapse animations?
CBSi controls the timing of the transition between collapsed and expanded states. Additional timers do not need to be added to the flash file and will cause errors if added.
10. Do I need to create my own pushdown / collapse animations in the SWF?
No pushdown animation is required. By default a snap open and snap close animation will be added after asset delivery for the CBSi hosted pushdown.
11. Will I be able to see the Pushdown effect locally in the SWF?
You'll be able to move between the expand and collapsed states in the SWF but auto expand and pushdown animations will not be viewable.
At this time age gates are not supported for our in-house product. If you have content that requires an age gate please work with an approved 3rd party vendor. Current approved 3rd party vendors are Pointroll, Unicast, Eyewonder, & Eyeblaster.
No. 3rd party pushdowns should follow the requirements of the respective 3rd party.
14. Where can I find more information about building pushdowns?
15. When should I use a 3rd party rather than the CBSi Hosted Pushdown?
A 3rd party vendor should be used if any of the following are creative requirements:
16. I have more questions who can I contact?
richmediaconsulting@cbsinteractive.com
17. Can I animate the transition between the collapsed and expanded state?
No animation between transitions is needed.
18. How much time does the transition take to animate between the collapsed and expanded state?
By default the expand and collapse animation takes 1/10 of a second. However this can be adjusted as needed to suit the creative on request. Contact richmediaconsulting@cbsinteractive.com for more information.
19. What aspects of the pushdown are controlled on the hosting end rather than in Flash directly?
20. Should my collapse animation and "pushup" frame label start on frame 1?
Yes. The "pushup" frame label is not always called as the starting point for the collapsed animation of the ad. More often frame 1 is called so best practice is to place the "pushup" frame label on frame 1.
Exit links should be set up using the following format:
cbsi.exit ( exitNumber , " description " , [ target, [ url ] ] )
Subloads are not supported for CBSi hosted Pushdowns. All content must fit in the single SWF, except for FLVs, and meet our size requirements.
23. Is there a "pushup" function?
No, the correct function to collapse the ad is
cbsi.collapse ( )
24. Can I use an event listening to track a video ending playback and trigger collapse?
No, CBSi video event listeners are no longer supported due to unresolved bugs.
25. I'd like to create new functionality that I can't find any documentation on, will it work?
Probably not. We can set up a test page to try out any undocumented functionality but cannot provide resources to help troubleshoot any issues encountered.
26. I'd like to use separate auto and user expand states.
This functionality is not supported in our in-house product. You should work with a 3rd party if this is a requirement of the creative execution.
Video
27. How do I implement Video? Do I need to use my own Video Player?
Video for CBSi hosted pushdowns is implemented using the CBSi Video Component. This component works in conjunction with the CBSi tracking component to provide trackable video playback.
28. Where do I find the CBSi Video Component?
The CBSi Video Component is downloaded with the CBSi Tracking component which can be found here: http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertise/tracking_component_instructions_1.php?tag=content;margin-right
29. Do I embed the video in directly in the SWF?
No. Separate FLVs should be included with the other assets delivered.
30. Do you support streaming video?
Yes. With approval we can support streaming video. Please contact richmediaconsulting@cbs.com for more information about approval. Set up for streaming video is the same setting up progressive download video in the CBSi tracking component.
31. Can I have multiple videos?
Multiple videos, though allowed, are not recommended. At this time we cannot provide separate tracking information per video. Video impressions and interactions will be reported as an aggregate total for all videos.
32. What Video Controls are supported?
Once the Video component is loaded in you will find the following pre-made control buttons loaded into the Library:
33. Will I be able to view my video playing back in my ad locally?
Yes if set up correctly video will appear in the local SWF file.
34. I've set up the Video component correctly but the video is not appearing. What should I do?
For best performance the Video Component should not be nested in a movie clip and should have it's own layer. If your set up follows those guidelines and you continue to see issues please e-mail richmediaconsulting@cbsinteractive.com
35. How does audio muting and unmuting work?
The CBSi Tracking component will handle the behavior of mute and unmute for video files. By default audio will be muted during playback of the ad when it auto expands. Audio will be unmated during user expand or if they select the unmute button.