Publisher ID for Android

This article describes the publisher_id parameter of the Universal Tag service.  

Overview

The Publisher ID parameter enables publishers to indicate what action should occur when an ad request fails at the placement level. Previously, if the request failed, the Member ID would be used to determine which default creative to return with the request. With the addition of the Publisher ID parameter publishers now have two options for resolving default placements when the request fails, the publisher and the member default placement.

How it works

When an invalid placement code is called:

• If a publisher_id is present in the JSON request, the request will be rerouted to the publisher level default placement.
• When there is no publisher_id in the JSON request, the request will be rerouted to the member level default placement.

Ad unit methods for publisher ID

The AdUnit class has two methods for setting and retrieving publisherId.

Setter method

public void setPublisherId(int publisherId)

Getter method

public int getPublisherId() 

Multi ad request changes

Users can select from one of three initialization methods. All require a memberId and a delegate object as arguments in order for ANMultiAdRequest be initialized, publisherId is an optional setting. The memberId, delegate and publisherId may only be set during initialization. All AdUnits must contain the same memberId as the one passed in the initialization process. See ANMultiAdRequest for more details.

public ANMultiAdRequest(Context context, int memberId, int publisherId, MultiAdRequestListener multiAdRequestListener, boolean loadOnInit, Ad... ads)
public ANMultiAdRequest(Context context, int memberId, int publisherId, MultiAdRequestListener multiAdRequestListener)

Note

The addAdUnit method of the ANMultiAdRequest will read the attached publisher_id of the AdUnit. If that value does not match the publisherId set to the ANMultiAdRequest instance, the ANMultiAdRequest instance will reject the AdUnit.