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THIRD PARTY RICH MEDIA ADS: Unicast Homepage and Sport Index Standard + OPA    


STANDARD    

    Dimensions:
300x250

    File Size:
40K or less, Flash
40K or less, Gif/JPG
For Vendor served assets only, Polite download file sizes allowed:
- Initial download: 40k
- Secondary user-initiated: 500k
- Secondary Auto-load: 500k; auto loading additional files must use Polite technology ("What is Polite Download").

    Audio:
Accepted: Yes.
Must be user-initiated, on click.
Must include a "Mute" button.

    Video:
Accepted: Yes.
Must be user-initiated.
Video file must include "Play", "Pause", and "Mute" buttons.
File size cannot exceed 500K (vendor served assets only).

    Accepted File Types:
Gif, Animated Gif, JPG, Flash (see General Flash Guidelines).

    Looping:
Accepted: Yes (limited to 20 seconds and no more than three loops of animation)

    Lead Time:
Allow five business days for testing and review.

    Third Party Ad Serving Requirements:
Accepted: Yes, from Unicast

    Alt Text:
30 characters max

    Additional Details:
No expandable rich media allowed within 300x250.
Looping is limited to 20 seconds, and no more than three loops of animation
Any use of additional third party tracking, including survey or research scripts must be approved previous to start


OPA    


    Dimensions:
970x418 (full expand size)
970x66 Strip (non-expanding and back-up file required)

    File Size:
970x418 Strip Expand
- 55K or less, Flash
- 55K or less, Gif/JPG
970x66 back-up Strip
- 40K or less, Flash
- 40K or less, Gif/JPG
For Vendor served assets only, Polite download file sizes allowed:
- Initial download: 55K
- Secondary user-initiated: 250K
- Secondary auto-play: 250K; auto loading additional files must use Polite technology (see What is Polite Download)

    Audio:
Accepted: Yes
Must be user-initiated, on click
Must include a "Mute" button
Note: Audio initiation must be its own action, if user 'clicks to expand' ad there must be a second control to initiate audio

    Video:
Accepted: No

    Controls:
Expand must include a "Close" button (vendor served assets only, does not apply to site-served assets - see additional details below)
Re-Expansion of 970x66 must be user-initiated, on-click

    Accepted File Types:
Gif, Animated Gif, JPG, Flash (see General Flash Guidelines)

    Looping:
Accepted: Yes

    Looping:
Accepted: Yes (limited to 20 seconds and no more than three loops of animation)

    Lead Time:
Allow five business days for testing and review

    Third Party Ad Serving Requirements:
Accepted: Yes, from Unicast

    Alt Text:
30 characters max

    Additional Details:
The top-Right 35x35 pixel area should not have text or graphics, this area needs to include the expand/close button for all units, click here for information on adding the expand/close button
Auto expand experience is limited to 8 seconds – on 9th second ad must ‘retract’
970x66 backup non-expanding strip required
Looping is limited to 20 seconds, and no more than three loops of animation
Any use of additional third party tracking, including survey or research scripts must be approved previous to start