The Floating Element must:
- not larger than 300x300 or 90,000 pixels into, and taking shape of the object;
- be fly out of or into an in-page rectangle 350x200;
- "Fly" across the page within the max. area of 790x410, pausing for max one sec. over any content.
- not cover the Yahoo! Logo and Search box at any time. General
- The 790x410 floating area must be transparented for the entire animation duration;
- There is a 10 second maximum play time for the floating element;
- There is a one second maximum pause time over any given content;
- Yahoo! specified CLOSE button must appear for entire duration of animation play Downlad CLOSE button Flash file.
FREQUENCY CAPPING:
Daily Exclusive booking: once every 6 hours
Impression based booking: once every 7 days
REQUIRED FILES:
File Requirement
- All creaive (.SWF) and source (.FLA) files must be submitted to Yahoo
- All fonts in flash file must be converted into image. In-page Rectangle 350x200:
- 350(w) x 200(h) .swf & .fla, file size 40k In-page Rectangle 430x80:
- 430(w) x 80(h) .swf & .fla, file size 30k Floating Creative File
- Transparent 790(w) x 410(h).swf & .fla. file size 50k BackUp GIF
- 350x200 .gif 30k
- 430x80 .gif 15k
USER EXPERIENCE:
Floating unit can animate within an allowable area for up to 10 seconds, after which it will reside into the banner units. All subsequent page views can be a choice of flash banner or static image.
FLASH GUIDELINES:
Source File: All SWF file should be submitted with the source file (fla) for testing and scheduling
The clickTAG must be attached to a button object and called on Release. (refer to Click Command Rule)
Button layer should be added on visible floating object and regular banner area only
Flash banners must be published in flash version 5, 6, 7 or 8
Recommendation: Using Actionscript for your animations can keep the file size down. Learn more about it from Macromedia
Recommendation: Do not base on the scene color as the flash background color. Adding graphic as the background ensure the correctness of the creative
HTML:
HTML code cannot exceed 3k.
2 images maximum, total file size of images cannot exceed 20k.
Client-side imagemaps are acceptable and must be provided by the client.
Forms tags in HTML code must use "get" in the method.
CGIs referenced in the HTML code must be active at the time of ad submission for validating/testing the ad HTML code, and able to handle the traffic load. Ads with CGIs which are not active and/or cannot handle the projected traffic will not be accepted.
LINKING URL:
Linking URLs must be domain name based and cannot be the IP address (i.e., http://207.123.456.78 )
Please visit our Policies page to read our guidelines on Submission, Advertisement Policy, Rescheduling and Personal Information Collection.
