Delivering OTT streaming services is an already complicated workflow across a diverse ABR network and DAI technology just adds to the complexity. At every step along the way, an error can occur that results in an ad failure. Without a comprehensive view of ad propagation, it is impossible to understand the quality of ads and fill rate, how many ad failures occur, the types of failures happening and their root causes.
Opportunity missing from contribution feed
Ad SCTE marker fails to reach downstream systems
Manifest decoration is incorrect/missing information
Media conditioning prior to ad break is not optimize
Ad creative is not accessible / poor streaming quality
Ad creative is of poor visual quality or has distorted audio
Duration of ads inconsistent with creative
Misaligned timing between variants
Misaligned resolution with main content