VAST tracking events / Linear

VAST fullscreen tracking event

Short answer: Removed in VAST 4.0. Use playerExpand on 4.x tags. Removed in VAST 4.0.

Replacement: use playerExpand on VAST 4.0 and later. A 4.x player that sees fullscreen has no handler for it.

When it fires

Old name for the player entering a larger playback surface. VAST 4.0 replaced it with playerExpand because fullscreen described a browser state that does not exist on a television. Ad servers still emit fullscreen on 4.1 documents when the template was never updated.

Where it is valid

Legal containers: Linear. An event in the wrong container is not a player error. It is a URL nobody calls.

Using it in a tag

<TrackingEvents>
  <Tracking event="fullscreen">
    <![CDATA[https://track.example.com/fullscreen]]>
  </Tracking>
</TrackingEvents>

<TrackingEvents>
  <Tracking event="fullscreen">
    <![CDATA[https://track.example.com/fullscreen]]>
  </Tracking>
</TrackingEvents>

Related vastlint rules

• VAST-4.0-tracking-event-removed: fullscreen/exitFullscreen tracking events were removed in VAST 4.0
• VAST-4.1-tracking-event-value: Tracking event attribute not in the valid set for this VAST version

Related events

• playerExpand: Fires when the player grows (4.0+ replacement for fullscreen).
• exitFullscreen: Removed in VAST 4.0. Use playerCollapse on 4.x tags.
• playerCollapse: Fires when the player leaves the expanded surface (4.0+).

Further reading

• All VAST tracking events
• VAST macros inside tracking URLs
• VAST error codes