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Setting up a channel and advertising

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Updated at July 23, 2025

Setting up a channel

  1. Open the Cloud Video home page.
  2. Select a channel.
  3. In the right-hand panel, select Channel settings.
  4. Under Advertising, specify the ad settings for all videos on your channel.
  5. Under Allowed domains, add the addresses of websites where videos from this channel can be played. Videos will not be played on other websites.
    1. Enable Check status.
    2. Click Add domain.
    3. Enter the address of a website or group of websites.
    4. Click Create
    5. Add other domains if required.
  6. To display videos on all websites, disable Check status. The domains you added will be saved.
  7. Click Save.

Use the create or update REST API method for the Channel resource, ChannelService/Create or ChannelService/Update gRPC API call. Provide your settings in the settings parameter.

Configuring ads

You can monetize your video content using the Yandex Advertising Network.

To configure ads:

  1. Review the requirements for placing video blocks.

  2. Sign up for the Yandex Advertising Network (YAN).

  3. Submit a request to support to add your video resource.

    For more details, see the Yandex documentation: New partners and Creating a video resource.

    After creating a video resource, the Video advertising section will appear in the Yandex Advertising Network interface, and the video resource itself will appear in the Video advertising → Video resources tab. It will be assigned a unique Page ID and get the New status.

  4. Add the Page ID to the Cloud Video channel settings.

  5. Wait until the moderation process is completed: the video resource status in YAN will change to Active. No statistics.

  6. Configure the display of ad blocks for your videos.

  7. View statistics on advertising and learn about technologies for increasing advertising efficiency.

Adding Page ID

  1. Open Channel settings.
  2. Under Advertising, specify:
    • Provider: Yandex Direct.
    • Page ID you got after creating your video resource.
    • Category (topic) of the videos on your channel.
  3. Click Save.

Use the create or update REST API method for the Channel resource, ChannelService/Create or ChannelService/Update gRPC API call.

Provide your advertising settings using the settings > advertisement parameter.

See also

Channels

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