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SIMID-1.0-simid-url-empty

<InteractiveCreativeFile apiFramework="SIMID"> must contain a non-empty URL

ErrorLinearIAB SIMID 1.0 §3.1

The element's text content must be a URL that returns an HTML document (SIMID 1.0 §3.1: "The text within this element must be a url which returns an HTML document"). An empty or whitespace-only value gives the player no URL to load — the interactive layer will be silently absent.

The <InteractiveCreativeFile> element's text content must be a URL that returns an HTML document (SIMID 1.0 §3.1: "The text within this element must be a url which returns an HTML document"). An empty or whitespace-only value gives the player no URL to load — the interactive layer will be silently absent.

How to fix

Add the HTTPS URL of your SIMID creative HTML document inside the <InteractiveCreativeFile> element, wrapped in a CDATA section.

Invalid

<InteractiveCreativeFile type="text/html" apiFramework="SIMID">
  <![CDATA[  ]]>
</InteractiveCreativeFile>

Valid

<InteractiveCreativeFile type="text/html" apiFramework="SIMID">
  <![CDATA[https://example.com/creative.html]]>
</InteractiveCreativeFile>
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