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Jamie Poitra
Jamie Poitra

Reputation: 441

Google DFP safeframe/friendlyframe Issue

Recently ran into some trouble with Google DFP that I'm hoping others have had.

We have a site that's served via SSL and it contains some Google DFP ad tags. Google DFP's debugging console shows no errors in the tags or our implementation of them. (i.e. the tags themselves are fine)

However, the ads are getting served via different methods. Some of the iframes get served as FriendlyFrames and some get served as SafeFrames. The SafeFrame ads appear correctly. The FriendlyFrame ads don't show up.

It appears that the FriendlyFrame ads are running afoul of some sort of browser security measure (likely because the pages are served via SSL).

I looked into this in the DFP docs but haven't found anything that explains how to solve the issue. There is a setForceSafeFrame method available that I've tried to use but it doesn't actually seem to do anything when I try to use it:

https://developers.google.com/doubleclick-gpt/reference#googletag.PassbackSlot_setForceSafeFrame

I've setup a test page demonstrating the issue here:

https://methnen.com/ad-test

There should be 5 separate ads on the page. If you get all of them refresh the page until you get at least one ad that doesn't show. The broken ads are being served as a FriendlyFrames.

Really hoping someone knows what the heck is going on.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2542

Answers (2)

PayteR
PayteR

Reputation: 1757

Try to force render all ads in SafeFrame 

googletag.pubads().setForceSafeFrame(true);

More about it here https://developers.google.com/doubleclick-gpt/reference#googletag.PassbackSlot_setForceSafeFrame

Upvotes: 1

Jamie Poitra
Jamie Poitra

Reputation: 441

FYI and possibly helpful for anyone else who might run into this at a later date:

Turns out the Ad Ops person hadn't set things up on their end to have enough inventory to fill all of the slots and there was nothing wrong with the tagging at all. The empty FriendlyFrames are apparently what DFP serves up when it decides it doesn't have anything to fill a given slot.

Upvotes: 1

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