Logo / watermark Branding
Your logo in any corner, at the size and opacity you choose, optionally a link. It steps aside for captions and title cards, and hides during ads unless you want it there.
Ad formats
Every ad format, on one player.
Logo, pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll and full ad pods, played from standard VAST 4 and VMAP tags by the ViewStream Player itself. Press play on any example below. The ads here are our own short promos, served from this site.
Pre-roll Before
Plays before the content starts, on video on demand and on live channels. Skippable after 5 seconds, with a “Learn more” click-through.
Mid-roll During
A break inside the programme, here at 0:10. Cue points come from the VMAP, from markers on the asset, or every N minutes. Scrubbing past several cues plays one break, not all of them.
Post-roll After
Plays when the content ends: a natural place for the next episode, a sponsor message or a call to action.
Full schedule VMAP
Pre-roll, a mid-roll at 0:15 and a post-roll from one VMAP document, exactly as an ad server would send it.
Non-skippable pre-roll House ad
No skip button: for sponsorship spots and your own “house” promos. In Studio you can pick any video from your library as the pre-roll and rotate several of them.
Player skins
The ad break wears your skin.
The skip button, countdown and progress follow the player’s skin, so an ad never looks bolted on. Pick a look and press play: the pre-roll comes first.
Browse all 100 skins in the skin library → · See branded players →
Under the hood
Standard tags, careful playback.
VAST 4 and VMAP 1.0
Any compliant ad server: wrappers (up to 5 hops), ad pods, linear MP4 creatives, skip offsets, click-through, error codes and tracking pixels.
The content never breaks
Ads play in their own layer over the stage. Live edge, DVR position and the stream itself keep running underneath. A failing ad falls back to the content, never blocks it.
Frequency and consent
Caps per session and across pages, a minimum interval between breaks, and no ad request without consent where your site asks for it (TCF and our own banner).
Measured
Every request, impression, quartile, skip, click and error reaches your analytics as an ad event, next to the viewing data.
{
"ads": {
"enabled": true,
"positions": ["pre", "mid", "post"],
"default_tag": "https://ads.example.com/vmap?content=[CONTENT_ID]",
"skip_offset_s": 5,
"max_per_session": 3
},
"branding": { "logo": "https://cdn.example.com/logo.png", "logo_position": "top-right" }
}
Music in the demo ads: “Sunset Paradise [The 2026 Remixes]” by Sascha Ende (ende.app), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Want ads on your player?
Bring your ad server tag, or run your own house ads from Studio.