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Simple (List of Sizes)
Detailed Specs (Table)
Simple (List of Sizes)
Ad Spec – Size List
  • Introduction
  • Select Campaign(s)
  • Ad Specs

Introduction

This will help you generate a list of simple ad sizes for WTHR.com, Premion, and TEGNA’s Audience Marketplace.

Required Ad Sizes

Below are the ad sizes and specs.

Display ads needed for Run of Site Display:

  • 300×600
  • 728×90
  • 300×250
  • 320×50

Display ads needed for Sponsorship:

  • 300×600
  • 728×90
  • 300×250
  • 320×50
  • 1140×250
  • 970×250
  • 320×107

Display ads needed for Sponsorship:

  • 300×600
  • 728×90
  • 300×250
  • 320×50
  • 1140×250
  • 970×250
  • 320×107
  • Logo as a transparent PNG file. Logo will appear on a white background.

Display ads needed for Universal High Impact:

  • 1140×250
  • 320×107

Display ads needed for News App Sponsor:

  • 728×90
  • 320×50
  • Logo as a transparent PNG file. Logo will appear on a dark background.

Display ads needed for Roadblock:

  • 300×600
  • 728×90
  • 300×250
  • 320×50
  • 1140×250
  • 970×250
  • 320×107

Adhesion ad requirement:

  • Adhesion ads are created by WTHR. Please provide the following:
    • High-resolution images/photos
    • Copy points
    • Any design guidance (colors, ad references, fonts, etc.)

Interscroller Display:

  • Interscroller ads are created by WTHR. Please provide the following:
    • High-resolution images/photos [minimum 750×570]
    • Copy points
    • Any design guidance (colors, ad references, fonts, etc.)
    • Destination URL

Interscroller Video:

  • Interscroller ads are created by WTHR. Please provide the following:
    • Background image (Optional)*: 2600x1000px psd or unflattened image
    • Copy
    • Logo
    • Video specs:
      • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9 (1024×768) for Desktop Landscape Video
      • 3:4 or 9:16 (720 x 1280) for Mobile Vertical Video
      • Video Codec: H.264 MP4
      • 6-30 seconds duration
      • Recommend at least 1080p resolution < 3MB, MP4

Premion Video Ad Campaign:

  • :15 or :30 video
    • 1920×1080 or larger

WTHR.com Pre-roll:

  • :15 or :30 video
    • 1920×1080 or larger 
    • Note: 15 seconds are non-skippable. 30 second videos are skippable after 15 seconds.

Audience Marketplace Pre-roll:

  • :15 or :30 video

Audience Marketplace Display:

  • 300×600
  • 160×600
  • 728×90
  • 300×250
  • 320×50
  • 300×50

Audience Marketplace Native:

  • Image: 1200×627, recommend for scaling
  • Headline: 25 character max (including spaces)
  • Body: 90 character max (including spaces)
  • CTA: 15 character max (including spaces)
  • Destination URL • Logo: 128×128
  •  

NBCOlympics.com:

  • :15 or :30 video file (no third-party tags allowed)
    • 1920×1080 or larger
  • 728×90
  • Deadlines:
    • 1/11/22 for opening ceremonies
    • 2/1/22 for first Monday of the games (2/7)
    • 2/2/22 – any campaigns submitted on or after this date will start five days after receiving.

 

NBC Sports:

  • :15 or :30 video file
    • no third-party tags allowed
    • 1920×1080 or larger
  • 300×250
  • 728×90

Creative swaps for NBC Sports are due every Wednesday.

Detailed Specs (Table)
Ad Spec – File Size Details
  • Introduction
  • Select Campaign(s)
  • Ad Specs

Introduction

This will help you generate detailed ad specs for WTHR.com, Premion, and TEGNA’s Audience Marketplace.

Required Ad Sizes

Below are the ad sizes and specs.

WTHR.com ROS Display Advertising

Ad Name Creative Size Format Max File Size Additional Specs & notes
Half Page 300×600 JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag** 100kb  
Leaderboard 728×90 JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag** 100kb  
Medium Rectangle 300×250 JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag** 100kb  
Mobile Banner 320×50 JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag** 40kb  

WTHR.com Section Sponsorship

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
Half Page300×600JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Leaderboard728×90JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Medium Rectangle300×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Mobile Banner320×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**40kb
Billboard970×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Desktop)1140×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Mobile Web)320×107JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb

WTHR.com Section Sponsorship w/ Logo

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
Half Page300×600JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Leaderboard728×90JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Medium Rectangle300×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Mobile Banner320×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**40kb
Billboard970×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Desktop)1140×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Mobile Web)320×107JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Masthead Logo112×38Transparent PNG in Proxima Nova Bold 12 size font, left aligned and “sponsored by” needs to be included in ad size above logo.40kb

WTHR.com Universal High Impact

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
Universal (Desktop)1140×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Mobile Web)320×107JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb

WTHR News App Sponsor

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
App Logo265×60PNG with transparent background. “Sponsored by” text formatting: Must be included in white, Proxima Nova Regular 12pt, and left-aligned in image. Logo: Must be a white or a color that will show against black background, no dark colors.40kb
Leaderboard728×90JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Mobile Banner320×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**40kb

WTHR.com Roadblock

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
Half Page300×600JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Leaderboard728×90JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Medium Rectangle300×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Mobile Banner320×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**40kb
Billboard970×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Desktop)1140×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Universal (Mobile Web)320×107JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb

WTHR.com Adhesion

Adhesion ads are created by WTHR. Please provide the following:
High-resolution images/photos/logo
Copy points
Any design guidance (colors, ad references, fonts, etc.)
Any reference ads

WTHR.com Interscroller Display

  • Interscroller ads are created by WTHR. Please provide the following:
    • High-resolution images/photos [minimum 750×570]
    • Copy points
    • Any design guidance (colors, ad references, fonts, etc.)
    • Destination URL

WTHR.com Interscroller Video

Ad NameFormatImage SpecsVideo Spec
Interscroller Video WTHR builds. Client provides components. Background image (Optional)*: 2600x1000px psd or unflattened image
Copy
Logo		 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9 (1024×768) for Desktop Landscape Video
3:4 or 9:16 (720 x 1280) for Mobile Vertical Video
Video Codec: H.264
MP4
6-30 seconds duration
Recommend at least 1080p resolution
under 3MB, MP4

Premion Video

Below are general specs for Premion. Please note that as long as the video is at least 1920×1080, you can send just about any video format and file and we’ll encode it to the exact spec.
Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
15 or 30 seconds1920×1080Must be exactly 15 or 30 seconds. We convert any video to the appropriate spec.

WTHR.com Pre-roll

Below are general specs for pre-roll. Please note that as long as the video is at least 1920×1080, you can send just about any video format and size and we’ll encode it to the exact spec.
Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
15 or 30 Seconds1920×1080MP48MBSkip button appears for videos over 15 seconds.

Audience Marketplace Pre-roll

Below are general specs for Audience Marketplace video. Please note that as long as the video is at least 1920×1080, you can send just about any video format and file and we’ll encode it to the exact spec.
Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
15 or 30 seconds1920×1080Must be exactly 15 or 30 seconds. We convert any video to the appropriate spec.

Audience Marketplace Display

Ad NameCreative SizeFormatMax File SizeAdditional Specs & notes
Half Page300×600JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Leaderboard728×90JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Medium Rectangle300×250JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Mobile Banner320×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**40kb
Mobile Banner300×50JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb
Tower160×600JPG,PNG,GIF,HTML5,third-party tag**100kb

Audience Marketplace Native

Component Size/Spec
Image JPG, 1200×627, recommended for scaling
Headline 25 character max (including spaces)
Body 90 character max (including spaces)
CTA 15 character max (including spaces)
Logo 128×128
Destination URL  

NBC Olympics

The below ad specs are for the 2024 Olympics. These may change for future Olympics. Ads are not clickable, so not clickthru urls or clicktags.

Deadlines:

July 2, 2024

Deadline to submit local digital sales campaigns for the Opening Ceremony (7/26) and first weekend of competition (7/27-28).

July 23, 2024

Deadline to submit local digital sales campaigns for the first Monday of the Games (7/29). Note that any campaigns submitted between July 4th and July 24th will start on Monday, July 29th at the earliest.

July 24, 2024

Campaigns or creative swaps submitted on this date or later will start five days after submission.

Example: A creative swap submitted on August 1 will go into effect on August 6.

Specs:

Ad Name Creative Size Format Max File Size Additional Specs & notes
Video – :15 or :30 1920×1080 MP4 No VAST tags allowed. We can do impression-tracking. WTHR converts all videos for NBC specs.
         
         

NBC Sports

Creative swaps for NBC Sports are due every Wednesday. Ads are not clickable, so not clickthru urls or clicktags.

Ad Name Creative Size Format Max File Size Additional Specs & notes
Video – :15 or :30 1920×1080 MP4 No VAST tags allowed. We can do impression-tracking. WTHR converts all videos for NBC specs.
         
         
  • **THIRD-PARTY TAG REQUIREMENTS:
    • Display: Max number of host-initiated file requests to not exceed 15 file requests during initial file load and host-initiated subload. Unlimited file requests allowed after user-initiated interaction.
    • Video/animated: Looping can be continuous, but must include stop, pause, play and audio buttons. Sound must be muted and user-initiated.