1. Advertiser is responsible for any third party / rich media (ie: Eyeblasters) setup and serving fees.
2. Sound must not occur uninitiated on any browser using Flash 5+. Ads that play sound without user interaction will be removed. Mouse-Over is NOT considered interaction, a click is required.
3. Rich Media or Expandable ads require 5 days lead time. ANN will attempt to accommodate placements on shorter notice but there is no guarantee.
4. See remainder of this document:

Tracking Flash Banners (clickTag and other methods)

Traditionally the only way to track clickthrus on Flash banners has been to either hard-code a tracking url, or use something called clickTAG. clickTAG was great in theory, unfortunately it has a more than few technical drawbacks, As of November 2008 ANN will be able to track Flash banner clickthru rates by inserting our own hard-coded tracking url when the banner is uploaded. Therefore the recommended manner to submit Flash banners is with the ultimate destination hardcoded in this fashion:

On (release) {
GetURL(“http://www.domain.com”,”_blank”);
}

With our hardcoded insertion It is possible to have multiple clickthru vehicles in a single banner, all of which can point to different urls,and all of which will be tracked cumulatively. With clickTAG this was only possible with custom clickTAG solutions (clickTAG1; clickTAG2; etc...)

However we can still work with standard clickTAG banners. If clickTAG banners are provided we will not replace the clickTAG with a hardcoded tracking url.

If you are using clickTAG, we recommend you either use the standard, Adobe clickTAG, or the IAB Canada Universal clickTAG.

Standard clickTAG:

on (release) {
if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") {
getURL(clickTAG);
}
}

IAB Canada Universal clickTAG:

{
function cFcTg(t) {
return (t.substr(0, 7) == 'http://' || t.substr(0, 8) == 'https://');
}

var fcTg = ''; var fcTt = '_blank';
var cTgM = 'clicktag'; var cTtM = 'clicktarget';

for (prop in this) {
var p = prop.toLowerCase();
if (p == cTgM && cFcTg(this[prop])) fcTg = this[prop]; if (p == cTtM) fcTt = this[prop];
}
if(fcTg == '' || fcTt == '_blank')
for (prop in _root) {
var p = prop.toLowerCase();
if (p == cTgM && cFcTg(_root[prop]) && fcTg == '') fcTg = _root[prop];
if (p == cTtM && fcTt == '_blank') fcTt = _root[prop];
}
if(fcTg == '' || fcTt == '_blank')
for (prop in _level0) {
var p = prop.toLowerCase();
if (p == cTgM && cFcTg(_level0[prop]) && fcTg == '') fcTg = _level0[prop];
if (p == cTtM && fcTt == '_blank') fcTt = _level0[prop];
}
if (cFcTg(fcTg)) getURL(fcTg, fcTt);
else getURL("http://noclicktagfound", fcTt);
}

Be sure to also check our advertising policy, and recommendations.

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