HTML5 assets - what good looks like, what bad looks like

HTML5 assets - what good looks like, what bad looks like

The static backup file cannot be included in the zip ifile for the HTML5 file.  You can receive a zip file with a static in it that also has an HTML5 zip in it.

If you try to import the zip file and you get an error, it's because there are files inside of the HTML5 zip that shouldn't be there.

BAD HTML5 asset:



GOOD zip file:
example of the inside of the actual good file.  it includes only the files needed to make the HTML5 work and there is no backup banner included:



example of the HTML5 zipped asset with it's separate static backup, zipped together (allowed)


you can receive a zip file that has an HTML5 zip AND a static included, like the sample in the GOOD zip above.  However, if the static is inside of the HTML5 zip, that is bad.

PRO TIP
Files sent to AdOps do not have to be in individual folders by concept.  Sending over creatives that are nested in folders upon folders slows the team down quite a bit.  Please do not send creatives to adops nested in folders.  Just one is perfect.

The ideal way of sending over creatives is in 1 folder like this:


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