Getting Started
Flipkart Commerce Cloud’s Ad monetisation service (FCC AdMon Service) enables you to monetise your properties such as website, MSite, and Apps (Android and iOS) by selling ad spaces. Presently, the supported advertising content includes ‘Display ads’ on your properties (websites, mobile apps) across geographies and across publishers.
Who can integrate with Ad-Tech Services?
- You’re a Flipkart Commerce Cloud Customer
- You have subscription or trial access to FCC Ad Monetization product
- You own one or more consumer properties – website, mobile app (Android/iOS), mSite
How can I integrate with FCC AdMon Service?
OpenRTB is the main integration process for working with the FCC AdMon Service.
Details required to be onboarded on FCC AdMon Service
Network Details
Each network, an aggregation of demand from advertisers and supply from publishers, has to be onboarded on the FCC AdMon Service. The details required for network onboarding have to be shared offline.
Inventory Details
The monetizable ad inventory available on the web/app has to be onboarded as supply constructs on the FCC AdMon Service. The ad inventory needs to be defined according to the guidelines mentioned in this document.
Creative format Specifications
Specifications for the creative formats that need to be supported and integrated into the FCC AdMon service have to be shared offline. These include:
- Channels supported for given Creative Format (Desktop, Msite, IOS, Android, Tablet)
- Image Dimensions supported for given Creative Format ( Height and Width of the image)
Advertiser Account Details
For an advertiser who wants to advertise on the Publisher, there will be an advertiser account, the details can be shared offline and the account admin will onboard the account. The details required for the advertiser account onboarding can be found in this document itself.
Key-Value Pair User Segments for Targeting (Optional)
Key-value pair targeting will be provided as a feature to the publishers to define custom targeting criteria such as demographics, behaviour etc. When an Ad request will come from a publisher that has key-values in the request, demand that targets those key-values will be eligible to serve for that Ad request.
Defining Key-Value pairs
Pre-defined list of key-values has to be shared by the publisher for segment definition and to be used for targeting in demand creation in ad serving. All the possible values for a particular key will have to be shared by the publisher. For example:
- Age
- 18-32
- 33-60
- Gender
- Male
- Female
- Unknown
The publisher will pass the same “key-value” pair in the ad request against which the applicable campaigns based on the targeting criteria will be selected.
CDN Details
Each network, an aggregation of demand from advertisers and supply from publishers, will provide access to their CDN to upload the creatives so that Ads can be served efficiently.
Fallback Banner
Each publisher needs to have a fallback mechanism where if an Ad banner is not served due to any reason, then a default banner can be shown for that slot. The dimensions of the fallback banner should be defined as per the dimensions of the slot.
Getting Started with OpenRTB
FCC Ad Monetisation service supports the integration specifications for OpenRTB 2.5. We have also provided example requests and responses to make it easier for you to understand the integration process.
Introduction to OpenRTB
OpenRTB project provides open industry standards for communication between buyers of advertising and sellers of publisher inventory. The overall goal of OpenRTB is and has been to create a lingua franca for communicating between buyers and sellers.
The following figure illustrates the OpenRTB interactions between an exchange and its bidders. Ad requests originate at publisher sites or applications. For each inbound ad request, bid requests are broadcast to bidders, responses are evaluated under prevailing auction rules, and a winner is selected. The winning bidder is notified of the auction win via a win notice. Ad markup can either be included in the bid prospectively or in response to the win notice.
A separate billing notice is also available to accommodate varying policies enacted by exchanges that are beyond the scope of the OpenRTB specification (e.g., billing on device delivery, viewability, etc.). The win notice informs the bidder’s pricing algorithms of a success, whereas the billing notice indicates that spend should actually be applied. A loss notification is also available to inform the bidder of the reason their bid did not win.
The URLs for win, billing, and loss notices and the ad markup itself can contain any of several standard macros that enable the exchange to communicate critical data to the bidder (e.g., clearing price).
For the purpose of integration with the FCC AdMon Service, only Bid Request and Bid Response are relevant.
Supported Ad Formats
FCC AdMon Service supports Native display ads format.
API Integration Guidelines
Introduction
The FCC AdMon Server to Server API spec allows publishers to integrate with FCC AdMon Service directly from their server. This document lays out the Ad request, response structures and the parameters included in each of them to enable publishers to integrate with FCC AdMon Service .
API Endpoint
Publishers can use the following endpoints to integrate with the FCC AdMon Service:
v1/dsp/getBids?client=publisherId
HEADER PARAM:
X-AUTH-TOKEN: This is the unique Authentication Key generated on FCC’s end and shared with the client. Inorder to get the response successfully, passing this header in the request will be crucial
X-PERF-TEST: true, for non-production & performance testing flows and false, for production flows
Publisher ID will be shared after the network is onboarded
Request Method
Ad requests must be sent using the HTTPS Post method. All request parameters must be sent within a JSON object within the POST body.
Required HTTP Headers
Header Name | Description | Values |
Content-Type | The MIME type of the body of the request | application/json |
Request Object
The top-level ad request object contains the entire JSON payload with the request. The child objects and parameters under the Request object are described in the following table:
Object/Parameter | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Required | Unique id of the bid request for each advertisement batch request from the external publisher. |
imp | Object Array | Required | Array of imp objects representing the supply metadata for each monetizable impression entity . At least one impression object is required. |
device | Object | Required | Device object containing the details of the user’s device to which the impression needs to be delivered. |
app / site | Object Array | Optional | Details of the application calling for the impression. Only one object to be passed in an Ad request (either app object or site object). |
wlang | String Array | Optional (english = “en”) | White list of languages for creatives using ISO-639-1-alpha-2. |
user | Object | Conditionally Mandatory | Human user of the device; audience for advertising. |
Imp Object
The imp object defines the type and number of ad impressions desired by the publisher. A single bid request can include multiple imp objects with unique ID values so the bids can reference them individually.
This is a mandatory object in the ad request and must contain the parameters described in the table below.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Required | A unique identifier for this impression within the context of the bid request (typically, starts with 1 and increments). |
banner | Object | Required | To denote the banner dimensions. |
ext | Object | Required | Extension to the impression object for sending supply metadata in context of the impression. |
Imp.banner.format Object
This object represents an allowed size (i.e. width and height combination) or Flex Ad parameters for a banner impression. These are typically used in an array where multiple sizes are permitted.
Attributes | Type | Requires / Optional | Description |
w | Integer | Required | Width in device independent pixels (DIPS). |
h | Integer | Required | Height in device independent pixels (DIPS). |
Imp.ext Object
This object denotes extension to the impression object for sending supply metadata in context of the impression.
Attributes | Type | Requires / Optional | Description |
slotId | String | Required | A unique identifier for the slot in the ad space within the context of the impression. |
Device Object
This object provides information pertaining to the device through which the user is interacting. Device information includes its hardware, platform, location, and carrier data.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
ua | String | Recommended | User Agent of the device. This must be the original user agent without any modifications. |
ip | String | Recommended | IP Address of the device in IPv4 format. Required if the ipv6 field is absent. |
os | String | Recommended | Name of the Operating System currently installed on the device. |
osv | String | Recommended | Version of the Operating System currently installed on the device. |
ifa | String | Conditionally Mandatory | Identifiers for Advertisers on the iOS platform. Mandatory if the app object is present in the request. If app object is present but request does not contain ifa (for iOS only) the request will be invalidated. |
App Object
This object should be included if the ad supported content is a non-browser application (typically in mobile) as opposed to a website. A bid request must not contain both an App and a Site object.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Recommended | publisher specific app ID. |
name | String | Optional | App name (may be aliased at the publisher’s request). |
domain | String | Optional | Domain of the app (e.g., “mygame.foo.com”) |
Site Object
This object should be included if the ad supported content is a website as opposed to a non-browser application. A bid request must not contain both a Site and an App object.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Recommended | publisher specific site ID. |
name | String | Optional | site name (may be aliased at the publisher’s request). |
domain | String | Optional | Domain of the site (e.g., “mygame.foo.com”) |
User Object
This object contains information known or derived about the human user of the device (i.e., the audience for advertising). The user id is an exchange artifact and may be subject to rotation or other privacy policies. However, this user ID must be stable long enough to serve reasonably as the basis for frequency capping and retargeting.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Recommended | Publisher specific ID for the user. At least one of id is recommended. |
data | Object Array | Optional | Additional user data. Each data object represents a different data source. |
User.data Object
The data and segment objects together allow publishers to define custom targeting criteria such as demographics, behaviour etc. to target different set of audience. When an Ad request will come from a publisher that has key-values in the request, demand that targets those key-values will be eligible to serve for that ad request.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
name | String | Conditionally Mandatory | Pass user_targeting in this field for custom targeting. |
segment | Object Array | Conditionally Mandatory | Array of Segment objects that contain the actual data values. |
User.data.segment Object
Segment objects are essentially key-value pairs that convey specific units of data. The parent Data object is a collection of such values from a given data provider. The specific segment names and value options must be published by the publisher a priori to its FCC AdMon service.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
name | String | Conditionally Mandatory | Name of the data segment specific to the FCC AdMon service. |
value | string | Conditionally Mandatory | String representation of the data segment value. |
Limits on Name-Value Pair in Segment Object
Limits defined below are for active names and values, any name or value deleted by the user will not be counted to calculate the system limit.
Parameter | Limit |
Maximum number of active names supported per publisher | 100 |
Maximum number of active values per key | 100,000 |
Characters per name | 30 |
Characters per value | 50 |
- Following characters will not be allowed in key names or values:
- , (comma)
Ad Request Sample
Native Ads
Response Object
Top level ad response object contains JSON for payload with the response. A bid response may contain bids from one or more seats (entities representing the advertisers or brands). The bid response consists of a Bid Response id and a Seatbid object as mandatory attributes.
Attribute | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | string | Required | Id of the bid request to which this is a response. This is a reflection of the bid request ID for logging purposes. |
seatbid | Object array | Required | Array of seatbid objects with a minimum of one seatbid object. |
Seatbid (seatbid)
A bid response can contain multiple Seatbid objects, each on behalf of a different bidder seat and each containing one or more individual bids.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
bid | Object array | Required | Array of Bid objects each related to an impression. Multiple bids can relate to the same impression. |
Bid (bid )
A SeatBid object contains one or more Bid objects, each of which identified by an id, relates to a specific impression in the bid request via the impid attribute and constitutes an offer to buy that impression.
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
id | String | Required | Bidder generated bid ID to assist with logging/tracking. It will be generated on the FCC end. Client need not understand it. |
impId | String | Required | ID of the Imp object in the related bid request. |
adm | String | Required | Ad markup containing the ad that will be rendered on the publisher property and meta information of the creative. |
nurl | String | Optional | Win notice URL called by the exchange if the bid wins (not necessarily indicative of a delivered, viewed, or billable ad); optional means of serving ad markup. |
lurl | String | Optional | Loss notice URL called by the exchange when a bid is known to have been lost. |
cid | String | Required | Campaign ID for the given creative |
price | Float | Optional | It is only useful for bidding scenarios. For FCC integration, this field will be 0.0, because we are assuming 100% Bid win |
ext | Object | Required | Placeholder for bidder-specific extensions to OpenRTB |
bid.adm (Ad markup)
FCC AdMon Service passes the ad markup as part of the bid response. JSON is used to pass the ad markup. Following are the attributes that are passed as part of adm:
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
version | String | Optional | Version of the native template |
assets | Object Array | Required | List of assets to be rendered by the client |
impUrls | String Array | Required | List of impression URLs to be fired by the client. Details [here](#recording-events-on-the-ads). |
viewUrls | String Array | Required | List of view URLs to be fired by the client. Details [here](#recording-events-on-the-ads) |
clickUrls | String Array | Required | List of click URLs to be fired by the client. Details [here](#recording-events-on-the-ads) |
bid.ext (Bid Extension)
FCC AdMon Service passes the Bid Extension in order to send FCC customized response objects. Following are the attributes that are passed as part of adm:
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
slot_id | String | Required | Slot ID for which this Bid is being Served. This can be used in the demand & supply matching when are the multiple impressions requested which will lead to multiple Bids in the response object |
ad_group_id | String | Required | AD group ID for the provided Banner |
rich_media_payload | Object | Optional | If the creative is a Rich Banner, additional attributes will be part of this Object |
bid.ext.rich_media_payload (Rich Banner Attributes)
FCC AdMon Service passes the Rich Banner Attributes in order to support client with Rich Banner. It will contain all the attributes of Rich Banner which are configured in the AD while AD creation FCC customized response objects. All the below fields will be conditionally present i.e. If the Advertiser has configured the field it will be present in the response, else it won’t be present. Following are the attributes that are passed as part of adm:
Attributes | Type | Required / Optional | Description |
ad_title | String | Optional | Contains Ad Title as per Rich Media requirements |
ad_subtitle | String | Optional | Contains Ad Subtitles |
ad_description | String | Optional | Contains Ad Description |
cta_text | String | Optional | Contains CTA Text |
cta_bg_color | String | Optional | Contains Hexadecimal Code for CTA Background Color |
ad_logo_image | String | Optional | Contains Logo Image URL [Dimensions won’t be modified by FCC, It will be equal to the image uploaded] |
image_bg_color | String | Optional | Contains Hexadecimal Code of Image Background color |
adm.assets Object
Attributes | Type | Description |
id | Integer | Unique Id of the asset |
img | Object | Image Object |
native | Object | Native Data |
assets.img Object
Attributes | Type | Description |
url | String | Image Url |
width | int | Height of the Image |
height | int | Width of the Image |
assets.native Object
Attributes | Type | Description |
value | String | Custom asset value |
type | String | Type of the custom asset. Example : LP (Landing Page) and the value across this object will be Landing Page url for given Banner |
Ad Response Sample
Native Ads
{
"id": "DCADJHFABHB12447VNAJDN",
"imp": [
{
"id": "DFGB3567DVBNSJ5FBN6",
"banner": {
"format": [ {"h": 12, "w": 12}, {"h": 12, "w": 12}]
},
"ext": {
"slotid": "HOME-PAGE-DAILY"
}
}
],
// only one object to be passed in an ad request (either site object or app object)
"app": {
"id": "1",
"name": "CompanyName",
"domain": "companyname.com"
},
"site": {
"id": "1",
"name": "CompanyName",
"domain": "companyname.com"
},
"device": {
"ua": "Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 7.0; SM-J701F Build/NRD90M)",
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"ifa": "kjsdnf",
"os": "Android",
"osv": "7.0"
},
"user": {
"id": "C785902B8150944B",
"data": [ {
"name": "user_targeting", // This should be exact Match
"segment": [ {
"name": "key1",
"value": "value1,value2"
},
{
"name": "key2",
"value": "10-20,30-40,50-60"
}]
}]
},
"wlang": ["en"],
"content": {
"keywords": "keyword-a"
}
}
{
"id": "DCADJHFABHB12447VNAJDN",
"seatbid": [
{
"bid": [
{
"id": "AL2PPRCAAAAAGIAAB_1_DF456GF5GD",
"impid": "SDFGHJ356AGDBN3",
"price": 0.0,
"nurl": "http://abc.com/bidWin?pl=sgZUyf1P5jiFimOVV0hqmcm0sljwUuJBPIRFpFyVIqShpstMGcpzV4LIEKOjY72bSQOTwRwZ0EbrZRJX73x7LVznhj0cknhVjvpwHDfXfoI1tNxgzpIau4b5xJfyqoCfcyQaKfCcLZ6koVEQLE2I3T7_0At4SQWiGybANN7e1L_X9lXc2D7s3MvYT9N85-hv&p=${AUCTION_PRICE}&cur=${AUCTION_CURRENCY}",
"lurl": "http://abc.com/bidLoss?pl=sgZUyf1P5jiFimOVV0hqmcm0sljwUuJBPIRFpFyVIqShpstMGcpzV4LIEKOjY72bSQOTwRwZ0EbrZRJX73x7LVznhj0cknhVjvpwHDfXfoI1tNxgzpIau4b5xJfyqoCfcyQaKfCcLZ6koVEQLE2I3T7_0At4SQWiGybANN7e1L_X9lXc2D7s3MvYT9N85-hv&p=${AUCTION_PRICE}&cur=${AUCTION_CURRENCY}&l=${AUCTION_LOSS}",
"adm": "{\"version\":\"1.0\",\"assets\":[{\"id\":-1156179165,\"img\":{\"type\":0,\"url\":\"http://abc.com/flap-image/96d2660f51d748bf.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":1440},"native":{"value":"http://xyz.com","type":"LP"}}}],\"impUrls\":[\"http://abc.com/adImpression?pl=sgZUyf1P5jiFimOVV0hqmcm0sljwUuJBPIRFpFyVIqShpstMGcpzV4LIEKOjY72bSQOTwRwZ0EbrZRJX73x7LQQcvgV5TfCGeFgFSBdkLCMLTjiMQs3Lo4cVyS6vkrfGREzz3n6yrmAFwhbb68CQsnOsyYfdTe6WcjFJxqJUh08\"],\"viewUrls\":[\"http://abc.com/adView?pl=sgZUyf1P5jiFimOVV0hqmcm0sljwUuJBPIRFpFyVIqShpstMGcpzV4LIEKOjY72bSQOTwRwZ0EbrZRJX73x7LQQcvgV5TfCGeFgFSBdkLCMLTjiMQs3Lo4cVyS6vkrfGREzz3n6yrmAFwhbb68CQsnOsyYfdTe6WcjFJxqJUh08&vst=[STARTTIME]&vet=[ENDTIME]\"],\"clickUrls\":[\"http://abc.com/adClick?pl=sgZUyf1P5jiFimOVV0hqmcm0sljwUuJBPIRFpFyVIqShpstMGcpzV4LIEKOjY72bSQOTwRwZ0EbrZRJX73x7LQQcvgV5TfCGeFgFSBdkLCMLTjiMQs3Lo4cVyS6vkrfGREzz3n6yrmAFwhbb68CQsnOsyYfdTe6WcjFJxqJUh08&cet=[EVENTTIME]\"]}",
"adomain": [
"www.flipkart.com"
],
"cat": [
"IAB19-2"
],
"exp": 3600,
"cid": "7NPOTBTCO6YU",
"ext": {
"creative_duration": 0,
"slot_id": "WCALHB0VR6IDE",
"ad_group_id": "14ASD523DV0A",
"rich_media_payload": {
"ad_title": "Rich Media Title",
"ad_subtitle": "Rich Media Subtitle",
"ad_description": "Rich Media Description",
"cta_text": "Click Here for details",
"cta_bg_color": "#5499C7",
"ad_logo_image": "https://fcc.flipkart.com/imageurl.png",
"image_bg_color": "#17202A"
}
}
}
]
}
],
"bidid": "AL2PPRCAAAAAGIAAB",
"cur": "INR"
}
Recording events on the Ads
The FCC AdMon service tracks the ad interaction events only when the trackers are fired. The events that are tracked are:
- Impression: This event has to be fired when the ad is loaded on the client (app/site)
- View: This event has to be fired when the ad is in the viewable port for the user. Viewability can be defined by the publisher. (Recommended: IAB guidelines – ad which appears at least 50% on screen for more than one second.)
- Click: This event has to be fired when the user clicks on the advertisement.
To record impression/ view /click on the ad, follow these steps:
- Get the list of URLs for that event for the ad from the ad markup.
- For each tracker url, do the following:
- Send a GET request to the urls, with an http client.
- Retry up to 5 times if the url fails, with an exponential backoff defined by retryTime * Uniform[0, 1], and retryTime doubled for every failure with start retry time as 1 second.
The tracker events have to be fired in real time so that the budget and frequency capping systems can work.
Impression Tracker
This event is to be fired when the tenant ( website / Mobile App SDK receives the Ad Bid response). This event helps in calculating the efficiency of serving Ads.
Type: GET
Sample: https://host:port/adImpression?pl=encryptedPayload
Query Params |
Description |
pl |
This will contain the encrypted data generated while serving. |
View Tracker
This event is to be fired when the Ads become visible on the viewport of the user. This event helps in calculating the performance of serving Ads.
Type: GET
Sample: https://host:port/adView?pl=encryptedPayload&vst=[STARTTIME]&vet=[ENDTIME]
Query Params |
Description |
pl |
This will contain the encrypted data generated while serving. |
vst |
This is the start time of the view event i.e the instance when the banner comes into the view port for the first time. |
vet |
This is the end time of the view event i.e the instance when the banner comes out of the view port. |
Click Tracker
This event is to be fired when the Ads are clicked by the user. This event helps in calculating the performance of serving Ads.
Type: GET
Sample: https://host:port/adClick?pl=encryptedPayload&et=[EVENTTIME]
Query Params |
Description |
pl |
This will contain the encrypted data generated while serving. |
et |
This is the event time i.e when the click event is triggered. |
Error Responses
Error Code |
Description |
204 |
Validation Errors If Any |
Appendix
Supply Definition Guidelines
Supply constructs and Hierarchy:
**Entity** |
**Definition** |
Network |
An aggregation of demand from advertisers and supply from publishers. |
Publisher Group |
A group of publishers. |
Publisher |
A website/app that provides monetisable ad inventory to the advertisers. |
Page |
A publisher website/app consists of many web pages linked together. Each is referred to as a page. For example, Home Page, Product Page etc. |
Slot |
Each page on a website can be divided into monetisable spaces where an ad can load. |
Creative Format |
A unique collection of asset types that will be required to create an ad. For example, Banner ad (landing page, image), Rich Banner (landing page, image, Logo, CTA text) etc. |
Advertiser Account Onboarding
Details required for Onboarding an advertiser account:
- Advertiser / Brand Account Name
- Email Address
- Company Phone Number
- Company website URL
- Communication address
- Top-level domain
- Billing Name
- VAT Registration Number (or any other document equivalent for that country)
- Billing Address
- Service Tax Number equivalent for that country
- Upload Documents (Agreement/Cancelled cheque etc – these will differ with each country)