has anyone added a close button to the companion ad section?

[tedK]

This is in regards to our out-of-the-box player selection for one of our magazines...

www.self.com/video 

we are using a compact tabbed navigation template.

there is a 300x250 companion ad that goes along with the pre-roll.

we want to be able to give the user the option to close the companion ad & broswe the playlist while the pre-roll is playing.

Anyone have any ideas?  is there a command to invoke? 

Thanks,

Ted 

[BC-BrianD · Accepted solution]

Hi Ted, we have no built-in functionality to show a close button on a ExpandingBanner companion ad when a video/overlay ad is showing.  But we do have a contract() API for the ExpandingBanner component:

http://docs.brightcove.com/en/player/com/brightcove/api/components/ExpandingBanner.html

I've never used this function before, but I assume you could call this when the main ad is playing.  Then you would need to create your own close button, perhaps with a custom player component:

http://support.brightcove.com/en/docs/creating-custom-player-components

The only thing I'm not sure about in this approach is whether the close button in a custom player component could actually be shown over the ad (as it may always display below the ad in the display).  If that looks like it's happening, I can try to provide some alternatives for displaying a custom close button.

[tedK]

thanks - will give it a shot & let you know what happens ;-)

Ted