The following ad units are created for most sites. You can request additional ad units and changes to the size mapping during onboarding or at any time you choose. However, most sites will include:
| Ad Unit Type | Sizes |
| Banner | Desktop: 970x90, 728x90, 970x250 Tablet: 728x90 (landscape only), 320x50 or 300x50 (portrait) Mobile: 320x50, 300x50 Note: Pencil Pushdown can run to this position as well
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| Rectangle | Desktop: 300x250 Tablet: 300x250 Mobile: 300x250 Note: the Desktop can be set up to also include a 300x600 if desired |
| Half Page | Desktop: 300x600 Tablet: 300x250 Mobile: Not recommended for mobile |
| In Gallery Ad | Desktop:300x250 Tablet: 300x250 Mobile: 300x250 |
| In Article Ad | Desktop: 300x250 Tablet: 300x250 Mobile: 300x250 |
| Rich Media | Desktop: 1x1 Tablet: 1x1 Mobile: 1x1 |
Note: Mobile is typically defined as any device under 768, tablet is 768px and 1024px, and desktop anything above 1024px.
That said, the implementations team will often refine these calculations depending on the location of the ad and the size changes to maximize the devices that can display the larger ad units.
DFP ad units can have up to five levels of hierarchy in DFP Premium accounts and up to three levels of hierarchy in a DFP Small Business Account.
The base path of all ad units begin with your DFP account number.
However, if you share a small business account, the account number will be appended with your call letters or site name to identify which site is using the ad unit.
For sites using Premium, it is recommended that the site name or call letters be included as a level of hierarchy incase you ever have alternate sites you will need to run ads on.
| Account Type | Base Path | Ad Path Example |
| DFP SB (single site) | /12345/ | news/national-news |
| DFP SB (multi site) | /12345/wkrp- | news/national-news |
| DFP Premium | /12345/wkrp/ | news/national-news/ |
Landing Page Targeting
All ad units on a page dynamically pass the path of the page (after the domain name) into the ad unit.
For example, a site with DFP Premium as on www.wkrp.com/news/ would get the following ad path for all the ads on that landing page:
/12345/wkrp/news/
To target ads to that page, you would simply select the news ad unit
Sub-pages of main section pages can be targeted by expanding the ad unit folder(s).
For example:
www.wkrp.com/news/national-news would get the following ad path for all the ads on that landing page:
/12345/wkrp/news/national-news
www.wkrp.com/news/national-news/trump would get the following ad path for all the ads on that landing page:
/12345/wkrp/news/national-news/trump
In all base path set ups, up to three levels of content hierarchy will pass into the ad path. Pages with four levels of parenting is very rare (most modern websites have a flatter page hierarchy for SEO reasons).
However, if you did have four levels, only the first three would pass into the ad positions. You would need to use key value targeting to target a page with four levels of hierarchy.
Article page ad units are driven by the primary category selected by the website editorial staff when creating the article.
For more information about the primary category selection process review the configure content targeting guide.
Each category in WordPress can be configured to match a landing page ad unit path so that the landing page and the articles on that page can be targeted together.
For example, for a site with the landing page called "Foodie Friday":
You could set the category "Foodie Friday" to pass the same /12345/wkrp/foodie-friday ad unit so that the sponsor of Foodie Friday would get exclusive ads on both the articles and the landing page simply by selecting the Foodie Friday Ad Unit.
Note: about new category set up
The following information is passed to DFP via the Rayos Advertisements Plugin
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Passed with
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Keyword Name
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Data Passed
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| Page | URL | The url of the page the ad is on minus the domain. for example /entertainment-news/ |
| Page | Post ID | The Post ID that WordPress assigns to all content types. This is generated by WordPress automatically and is unique - no other page will have the same ID |
| Page | WordPress Categories | This is a list of all the editorial categories the editor assigns to content in the system. This is primarily used for targeting article content. |
| Ad Slot | Size Mapping | This is the ad sizes configured in the advertisement plugin for that ad |
| Ad Slot | Ad Zone | This is an arbitrary grouping that WordPress users can use to group certain ads together for targeting purposes |
| Ad Slot | Position | Indicates a unique number for each ad on the page |
| Ad Slot | Placement | this is automatically generated if the same ad slot is put on the page more than once |
The following information is passed to DFP by default, by having the DFP code enabled on the site
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Passed with
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Keyword/Type
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Data Passed
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| Ad Slot | Ad Slot Name | The name of the ad slot on the page |
| Page | Geography | Countries, regions, US metro areas (DMA), UK TV regions, cities, and US ZIP codes or Canadian postal code prefixes. |
| Page | Browser | Android, Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc. |
| Page | Browser Language | Chinese, English, Italian, German, etc. |
| Page | Device Category | Desktop, Feature Phone, Smartphone, Tablet |
| Page | Manufacturer | Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, HTC, Xiaomi, and many others. |
| Page | Operating System | Android, Apple iOS, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, etc. |
| Page | Bandwidth | Cable, DSL, etc. |
| Page | Mobile carriers | AT&T, 02, etc. |
| Page | User domains | IP addresses for Charter, Comcast etc |
Gallery Ads
In-Article Ad
Rayos uses DFP's Google Publisher Tags (GPT) asynchronous single request method. This will make a single request for all the ads on the page and load them asynchronously from the page's content helping to make pages load faster. Following the Internet Advertising Bureau's standard ad specifications will help your advertisers ads load quicker and have a better chance for them to be viewed.
| Ad dimension | Initial file size k-weight kb |
| Billboard 970x250 | 250 |
| Leaderboard 728x90 | 150 |
| Banner 300x50, 320x50 | 50 |
| Super Leaderboard/ Pushdown 970x90 | 200 |
| 300x600 | 200 |
| Medium Rectangle 300x250 | 150 |
| App interstitial | 200-300 |
| Skyscraper 160x600 | 150 |
Other display ad guidelines
Video pre-roll
For Cross-Screen Portability with MP4 IAB recommends using an MPEG-4 (MP4) format with H.264 codec because this file format is more widely supported across devices. Using a Baseline profile for the H.264 codec ensures that the file will play on devices and bandwidths that range from a cellular connection on a mobile screen to connected TVs with high-speed cable connection. AAC audio is recommend because most players support AAC audio encoding. (Flash players don’t support PCM audio, so MP4 ads encoded with PCM audio will play without sound in a Flash player.) While the MP4/H.264 file format is recommended, other formats, such as WebM and VP8, may be submitted in addition.
Duration recommended is :15, :30 is supported but not recommended, shorter video ads of :06-:08 seconds are more effective on mobile.
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