iPhone: Video goal should open native player about adwhirl HOT 6 CLOSED

Yes, the ideal result of a Video ad is that on click, AdWhirl invokes the 
youtube player passing through the video 
path. Is there a way for this to happen?

Should be fixed now, let us know if this works for you.

I've just re-tested it; still opens the youtube website so not fixed. I'm using 
hosted Adwhirl; anything I need to 
refresh to see the change?

Hmm... we just tried it again as well and had no issues. 

Are you testing on the simulator or on a device? This will only work on the 
phone itself as the simulator doesn't 
have the YouTube app.

OK - it's now showing and the behaviour has changed. Might have been a delay in 
migrating or refreshing the 
code.

It now invokes the YouTube player as expected when the Video ad is clicked.  

One minor issue which I realise I may not have been too clear about. The player 
invoked is the YouTube App 
itself as opposed to a video window which layers on top of the app which has 
the ad.

It would be best if the player was invoked as a layer (in the way a website ad 
invokes a browser layer, but not 
Safari itself).  This means once the video has been watched, the layer can be 
closed and the referring app is 
still open.

Current functionality opens the YouTube app and closes the current app, so the 
user has left the ad 
environment and must close YouTube app, then re-open the app which had the ad 
on.

I realise my terminology above wasn't as precise as it should be; but hopefully 
this explains the issue more 
clearly.

Zac,

Yes, we understand that you want to keep the user within the app instead of 
yanking
them out of the app. We'll look into invoking the YouTube player in-app as a 
feature
addition. It's not a documented feature, but we've seen hacks that it could be 
done
somehow.

Meanwhile, if you can host a web page and the video file yourself, you can use 
click
to web as the goal and link to the video there.

And, since the code is all for you to see and hack, if you come up with a 
suitable
solution we'd love to hear from you. Look into AdWhirlAdapterCustom.m , adTapped
function as the starting point. The decision on what to do (openURL or create 
in-app
AdWhirlWebBrowserController) is in there.