Ad Breaks

Ad breaks let you insert ads at specific points within a video. Breaks are configured per video, from that video's detail page — not on the content nodes that reference it.

Ads must be enabled in Admin → Platform Config for ad breaks to run.

Configuring ad breaks

Go to Admin → Videos, open a video, and use the Ad Breaks section.

Each break has:

Field	Description
Time Offset	When in the video the ad plays — expressed as a duration (e.g. 00:05:00 for 5 minutes in)
Position	Optional. Which slot in the ad pod this break occupies. Leave empty to assign randomly

Ad pods

A break's pod size (how many ads play back-to-back at that point) comes from the platform-wide Ad Pod Size setting. Each slot in the pod requests a fresh ad from your configured VAST/VMAP tag.

Default breaks

If a video has no ad breaks configured, the platform generates a default schedule automatically using the platform-wide Ad Break Interval and Ad Pod Size settings — evenly spaced breaks for the video's duration. Add breaks manually only when you need placements that differ from that default.

Multiple breaks

You can add multiple breaks to a single video. Each break plays when the viewer reaches its time offset.