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Custom (experimental)

Custom does not represent a specific network. Rather, it provides a way for a site to display simple ads on a self-service basis. You must provide your own ad server to deliver the ads in json format as shown below.

Each ad must contain a mustache template.

Each ad must contain the URL that will be used to fetch data from the server.

Usually, there will be multiple ads on a page. The best way of dealing with this is to give all the ads the same ad server URL and give each ad a different slot id: this will result in a single call to the ad server.

An alternative is to use a different URL for each ad, according to some format understood by the ad server(s) which you are calling.

Examples

Single ad with no slot specified

<amp-ad width=300 height=250
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="200" width="200" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<!-- The ad server will be called with the URL https://mysite/my-ad-server -->

Two ads with different slots

<amp-ad width=300 height=250
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server?someparam=somevalue"
    data-slot="1">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="300" width="250" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<amp-ad width=400 height=300
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server?someparam=somevalue"
    data-slot="2">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="400" width="300" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<!-- The ad server will be called with the URL https://mysite/my-ad-server?someparam=somevalue&ampslots=1,2 -->

Ads from different ad servers

<amp-ad width=300 height=250
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server"
    data-slot="slot-name-a">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="300" width="250" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<amp-ad width=400 height=300
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server"
    data-slot="slot-name-b">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="400" width="300" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<amp-ad width=300 height=250
    type="custom"
    data-url="https://my-other-site/my-other-ad-server"
    data-slot="123">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="amp-template-id">
      <a href="{{href}}">
        <amp-img layout='fixed' height="300" width="250" src="{{src}}" data-info="{{info}}"></amp-img>
      </a>
    </template>
</amp-ad>
<!-- Two ad server calls will be made: -->
<!-- The first:  https://mysite/my-ad-server?ampslots=slot-name-a,slot-name-b -->
<!-- The second: https://my-other-site/my-other-ad-server?ampslots=123 -->

Supported parameters

data-url (mandatory)

This must be starting with https://, and it must be the address of an ad server returning json in the format defined below.

data-slot (optional)

On the assumption that most pages have multiple ad slots, this is passed to the ad server to tell it which slot is being fetched. This can be any alphanumeric string.

If you have only a single ad for a given value of data-url, it's OK not to bother with the slot id. However, do not use two ads for the same data-url where one has a slot id specified and the other does not.

Ad server

The ad server will be called once for each value of data-url on the page: for the vast majority of applications, all your ads will be from a single server so it will be called only once.

A parameter like ?ampslots=1,2 will be appended to the URL specified by data-url in order to specify the slots being fetched. See the examples above for details.

The ad server should return a json object containing a record for each slot in the request, keyed by the slot id in data-slot. The record format is defined by your template. For the examples above, the record contains three fields:

  • src - string to go into the source parameter of the image to be displayed. This can be a web reference (in which case it must be https: or a data: URI including the base64-encoded image.
  • href - URL to which the user is to be directed when he clicks on the ad
  • info - A string with additional info about the ad that was served, mmaybe for use with analytics

Here is an example response, assuming two slots named simply 1 and 2:

{
    "1": {
        "src":"https://my-ad-server.com/my-advertisement.gif",
        "href":"https://bachtrack.com",
        "info":"Info1"
    },
    "2": {
        "src":"data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhyAAiALM...DfD0QAADs=",
        "href":"http://onestoparts.com",
        "info":"Info2"
    }
}

If no slot was specified, the server returns a single template rather than an array.

{
    "src":"https://my-ad-server.com/my-advertisement.gif",
    "href":"https://bachtrack.com",
    "info":"Info1"
}

The ad server must enforce AMP CORS. Here is an example set of the relevant response headers:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:https://cdn.ampproject.org
Access-Control-Expose-Headers:AMP-Access-Control-Allow-Source-Origin
AMP-Access-Control-Allow-Source-Origin:https://my-ad-server.com

Analytics

To get analytics of how your ads are performing, use the amp-analyics tag.

Here is an example of how to make it work with Google Analytics events. Note that the variables can be set either by the code that displays the page (as in eventAction) or in variables passed back by the ad server (as in eventCategory and eventLabel).

<amp-ad type="custom" layout="responsive" width="300" height="250" 
    data-url="https://mysite/my-ad-server">
    <template type="amp-mustache" id="my-amp-template-id">
        <a href="{{href}}" data-vars-event-label="{{evehtLabel}}" data-vars-event-category="{{category}}">
            <amp-img layout='responsive' width="300" height="250" src="{{artwork}}"></amp-img>
        </a>
    </template>  
</amp-ad>
<amp-analytics type='googleanalytics'>
<script type='application/json'>
{
    "requests": {
        "vars": {
            "account":"UA-9999999-9"
        },
        "triggers": {
            "trackAmpAd": {
            "on": "click",
            "selector": "amp-ad a",
            "request": "event",
            "vars":{
                "eventCategory": "${eventCategory}",
                "eventAction": "My Ad Click Action",
                "eventLabel": "${eventLabel}"
            }
        }
    }
}
</script>
</amp-analytics>

To do

Add support for json variables in the data-url - and perhaps other variable substitutions in the way amp-list does