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@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak commented Jan 26, 2026

What does this change?

Looks like the Youtube API has moved on - breakPositions seems to be being ignored and not setting prerolls, and we've been asked to turn on postrolls too. Move to the adBreaks setting, setting pre and postrolls, and let Youtube set the midrolls when it adds the autogenerated breaks.

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Tested on CODE - uploaded an over 8min video, turned it on and published with monetisation on and checked that all the settings we wanted to be enabled were enabled.

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How can we measure success?

Less manual fiddling with monetisation settings for video uploaders.

@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak added the maintenance Departmental tracking: maintenance work, not a fix or a feature label Jan 26, 2026
@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak force-pushed the an/update-ads-settings branch 2 times, most recently from 57adc5e to 1ecd006 Compare January 26, 2026 15:23
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@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak force-pushed the an/update-ads-settings branch from 1ecd006 to 5d2c076 Compare January 26, 2026 16:01
Looks like yt api has moved on - breakPositions seems to be being ignored
and not setting prerolls, and weve been asked to turn on postrolls too. Move
to the adBreaks setting, setting pre and postrolls, and let yt set the
midrolls when it adds the autogenerated breaks. Hopefully this helps
@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak force-pushed the an/update-ads-settings branch from 5d2c076 to 689da62 Compare January 26, 2026 16:48
@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak marked this pull request as ready for review January 26, 2026 17:02
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@andrew-nowak andrew-nowak merged commit e3450d5 into main Jan 27, 2026
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Seen on PROD (merged by @andrew-nowak 7 minutes and 46 seconds ago) Please check your changes!

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