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Stories Creative Specs

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Written by Siva Balan
Updated over 3 months ago

Stories appear as standard Nativo In-feed Units on mobile web publishers. An indicator is added to the top-left corner of the preview image to indicate that this is a story experience. Stories is easier to execute with simple images and videos and is fully immersive, with no content landing page (CLP).

Creative Assets


Stories require at least 1 video or image.

Images


Images remain on screen for 6 seconds. Animated Gifs are supported (up to 6s).

  • Aspect Ratio: The default asset requirement is a vertical 9:16 asset. Assets that don’t fill the screen on a given device will be resized with the empty space filled in with black, to keep the focus on the asset.

  • File Size: 3MB Max

  • Image Format: PNG, JPG, GIF

Video


All raw video files are supported (YouTube is not supported).

  • Video Ratio: 9:16 to 16:9 to 4:5

  • Video File Size: 2GB Max

  • Video Format: MP4, WEBM and MOV (Apple ProRes not supported)

  • Video Length Minimum: 1 second

  • Video Length Maximum: none

  • Resolution: Upload the highest resolution video available that meets file size and ratio limits

  • Video Captions: Optional but recommended

  • Video Sound: Optional but recommended (enabled by default)

In-feed Unit

  • Preview images and headlines are required for the In-feed unit.

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