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CTV & Mobile App Specs and FAQs

CTV & mobile app support isn’t yet available to all publishers. Here are answers to FAQs from those who are eligible to be integrated, and requirements for doing so.

If you're unsure about what information to send to Sovrn, we suggest including as much information as possible. The more you can provide, in addition to the attributes below, the better you’ll likely be able to monetize.

At minimum you’ll need to include:

  • Parameters defined in the oRTB 2.6 spec as required.

  • Additional attributes required by Sovrn, indicated below.

Also listed below are recommended attributes for optimizing monetization with us.

Anything you decide to pass to Sovrn in addition to required and recommended attributes will also be passed along, however please see: Not Supported.

Object

Attribute

Description

App

id

required


name

required


bundle

required


storeurl

required

Device

ua

required


ip

required


os

recommended


make

recommended


devicetype

recommended


sua

recommended

Source

schain

required.

*note: requests with too many hops are blocked.

Imp

rwdd

required only if “rewarded”


ssai

recommended

Content

id

recommended


title

recommended


series

recommended


genre

recommended


url

recommended


cattax

recommended


context

recommended


contentrating

recommended


kwarray

recommended


len

recommended


langb

recommended


network

recommended


channel

recommended

User

consent

recommended


eids

recommended

Network

id

recommended


name

recommended


domain

recommended

Channel

id

recommended


name

recommended


domain

recommended

EID

source

recommended


uids

recommended

Other Features

Feature

Description

CTV video pods

supported

GZIP

supported and recommended. Learn more about GZIP here.

TCF string

not required. A request without a TCF string will be accepted.

Contextual Advertising

supported

SKAdNetwork, SKAD IDs

will be passed as per oRTB protocol

Not Supported

Object

Description

Audio

Sovrn does not support audio at this time.

Lurl

not supported.

Other FAQs

What integrations are supported?

CTV

  • oRTB

  • Publica

  • Vast Tag

  • SpringServe

  • Amazon TAM

Mobile App

  • oRTB

  • Prebid

  • Nimbus

  • Amazon TAM/UAM

Where can I access CTV and mobile app reporting?

You can see reporting in the Sovrn Platform under the Analytics tab. Make sure to use the Ad format filter to see CTV & mobile app traffic - this traffic won’t be included under the other filters (or if no filter is applied).

We offer an API as well: CTV & InApp API

Can Ad Quality blocks be applied?

Blocks can be applied in 2 ways:

  1. Sent from the publisher via the bcat or badv attributes in the BidRequest object, or

  2. Applied from the Sovrn side

The blocks that Sovrn can apply are:

  • Account level: category and CRIDs

  • Zone level: category and advertiser domain

What are the default expiry times?

Mobile App Display: 1hr

Mobile App Video: 2hrs

CTV: 2 hrs

Impressions are invalidated after 4 hours.

Which impression tracking method/s should be used?

bURL is our preferred method, however ADM and nURL are also supported.

What are the top performing geographies?

All geographies can perform, but the best performing are US and Canada.  For TAM mobile app, we are only accepting US, Canada and Mexico at this time.

Does Sovrn enforce a ceiling for tmax?

The limit is 500ms.