Pugpig Knowledge Base

Third party embeds - security

Published March 7th, 2023 by Hughie Molloy

Pugpig apps embed all sorts of content from polls to comments, videos to tweets. HTML content in apps are displayed in a webview. This means embeds will work in a similar way to how they operate on a website and a SDK will not be required. Some providers, however, restrict who is allowed to embed their content - often by whitelisting domains. Here a

Video Ads

Published May 23rd, 2024 by Hughie Molloy

Pugpig supports preroll video adverts, in article, on direct video files (mp4, m3u8). These are video adverts that play before the video, but after the user clicks the play button. On completion, or when skipped, the video will automatically start. The type of adverts served are Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) adverts. VAST ads can be set up in you

Ad Sizes

Published October 15th, 2024 by Hughie Molloy

Article Page The in article Top Banner advert is response depending on screen size. Desktop: 970x250 or 728x90 Tablet: 728x90 Phone: 320x50 or 300x50 In article MPUs are fixed at all screen sizes to 300x250. Timeline Google Ad Card advert is response depending on screen size. Desktop & Tablet: 728x90 Phone: 300x250 or 320x250 Native While on t

Viafoura and Pugpig Bolt

Published November 8th, 2022 by Hughie Molloy

What is Viafoura Viafoura is a digital platform that helps with increasing user engagement within your content via the use of interactive tools such as comments on articles. In order to implement this, we assume you already have the comments integrated and working on your live website. If a user comments on an article on your app, those comments are

Comments on Bolt

Published March 2nd, 2023 by Hughie Molloy

It is common for our apps to include a comment module at the bottom of each article. We include these in the same HTML Webview at the content to ensure the scrolling is smooth. Native SDKs Note that we currently do not support Native SDKs for comments. We only support comments in a webview. We will be supporting the Viafoura SDK in a forthcoming pr

Content URL

Published October 14th, 2024 by Hughie Molloy

The content URL is a parameter passed by Google's Mobile Ads SDK to Google Ads. Content mapping helps deliver contextually relevant ads to your users and helps ensure ads are placed near content that’s suitable for your advertisers. This enables more advertisers to bid safely on your inventory, which may help to maximize your revenue. Article Page W

App Visibility

Published April 17th, 2023 by Hughie Molloy

One has the option to mark a collection or a piece of content in a collection as public, marketing or private. Public piece of content is always visible. Content is public by default. Marketing content will only be visible to signed out or inactive users. If the user signs in and has access this will disappear. This can be good if you want to have f

Audio Meta Data

Published October 9th, 2024 by Hughie Molloy

The meta data of audio files are primarily from the ID3tags in mp3. However there are overrides and fallback fields to ensure the correct information is displayed in the in app audio player. The priority of fields are set as follows: Title Audio Cards Hosted Audio “Audio Player Title” field in CMS (pugpig_widgets_audio_meta_title) "title" ID3tag in

Page URL

Published October 14th, 2024 by Hughie Molloy

The page URL is a parameter passed by Google's Publisher Tag (formerly Doubleclick for Publish) to Google Ads. Since adverts are rendered in an iframe, GPT may not be able to determine the URL of the page. If you are using Ad Exchange or AdSense to fill impressions, these systems can't send contextual information about the page to buyers without a p