Understand the ingest and conditioned status

In order to serve ads to video on demand (VOD) content with DAI, the following processes need to successfully complete:

Ingestion of the MRSS feed
Ingestion of the video content
Conditioning of the video (if unconditioned)

You can see the ingestion and conditioned status on both the content list page and the details page. The details page also allows you to initiate a repeat of the content ingestion process for preconditioned content, or to condition unconditioned content. You can also condition in bulk from the list page, with the option to select multiple items.

Improvements to content ingest and conditioned status

You can now see a more accurate and actionable status when ingesting video content to help you troubleshoot any errors along the way.

Previously, Ad Manager displayed a status of "Conditioned" for both ingested content that was preconditioned, and for unconditioned content that was successfully conditioned.

For publishers using the external API, these new statuses are available beginning with the May 2023 release. Before this release, only the older versions of the status are available.

Any comparisons between the content ingest statuses exposed in the external API and the Ad Manager interface will only match after this API release.

Filter content by status

To filter your video content by status:

Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
Navigate to Video, and then Content to see the content list page.
Click Add new filter and select either DASH status or HLS status.
Select your filters and click Apply.

You can open the content details page to see details about ingestion or conditioning that resulted in a succes, warning, or failure.

Statuses by filter category

Filter	Includes statuses
Success	Ingested: Displayed for preconditioned content that has been successfully ingested. This is also shown for short form content (content with no cue points, which do not require conditioning). Conditioned: Displayed for unconditioned content that's successfully been conditioned.
Warning	Conditioned with warnings Ingested with warnings
Failure	Failed

Content list page

The video content status list page showing an ingested HLS status.

_{1. The content list page displays the status.}

Content details page

The video content status details page showing an ingest status and an option to ingest for DAI.

_{2. The content details page shows the ingest status and the preconditioned status.

3. From this page, you can initiate a repeat of the content ingestion process, or condition unconditioned content.}

Preconditioned content

Click Ingest for DAI on the details page to repeat the content ingestion process. This process includes things like:

Downloading and analyzing media segments to extract time signals for subtitles
Performing validations
Ad break tag processing
Removal of query parameters on Akamai URLs

Unconditioned content

Click Condition for DAI on the details page to initiate content conditioning.

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