{"id":154624,"date":"2016-02-10T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T05:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154624"},"modified":"2016-02-10T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T05:34:29","slug":"google-to-kill-flash-ads-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154624-google-to-kill-flash-ads-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to kill Flash ads this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+GoogleAds\/posts\/dYSJRrrgNjk\" target=\"_blank\">Google has announced<\/a><\/strong> that the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are going 100% HTML5 to enhance the online browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few years we\u2019ve rolled out tools to encourage advertisers to use HTML5, so you can reach the widest possible audience across screens,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now given a timeline which it will use to kill Flash ads on its platforms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting June 30th, 2016, display ads built in Flash can no longer be uploaded into AdWords and DoubleClick Digital Marketing.<\/li>\n<li>Starting January 2nd, 2017, display ads in the Flash format can no longer run on the Google Display Network or through DoubleClick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to update your display ads to HTML5 before these dates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Flash<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/148243-stop-using-flash-says-adobe.html\">Stop using Flash, says Adobe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136866-chrome-will-stop-flash-auto-playing-certain-content.html\"><strong>Chrome will stop Flash auto-playing certain content<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/132062-kill-flash.html\">Kill Flash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google plans to go 100% HTML5 and kill all ads built in Flash in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,10382,35364,167,33250],"class_list":["post-154624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-adwords","tag-doubleclick-digital-marketing","tag-google","tag-google-display-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154632,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154624\/revisions\/154632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}