Need to know the expiration of an ads video

[fahad1k]

I have accountid 18ce54alr9g, and video id 13_1062174089803030528.

How do I know how long this video will be available in Twitter ads?

Is there an expiration for this video?

{
“tweeted”: false,
“ready_to_tweet”: true,
“duration”: 6167,
“reasons_not_servable”: ,
“description”: null,
“preview_url”: “https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1062174089803030528/vid/1280x720/Y6zzxsG_-1lBpSjq.mp4?tag=8”,
“id”: “13_1062174089803030528”,
“poster_url”: “https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1062174089803030528/img/WVRytpMthsF2X7Ux.jpg”,
“media_key”: “13_1062174089803030528”,
“created_at”: “2018-11-13T02:43:31Z”,
“title”: null,
“aspect_ratio”: “16:9”,
“updated_at”: “2018-11-13T02:43:59Z”,
“deleted”: false
}

If I were to query upload.twitter.com for media_id 1062174089803030528, it will give me expiry as per below.

{
“media_id”:1062174089803030528,
“media_id_string”:“1062174089803030528”,
“media_key”:“13_1062174089803030528”,
“size”:4558442,
“expires_after_secs”:1292603,
“video”:{
“video_type”:“video/mp4”
},
“processing_info”:{
“state”:“succeeded”,
“progres
s_percent”:100
}
}

But I dont think the expiry for upload.twitter.com and ads.twitter.com relate to each other.

So, can someone explain what is the expiry of this video_id 13_1062174089803030528?

[jrsyo]

Hi,

To answer your question:

How do I know how long this video will be available in Twitter ads?
Is there an expiration for this video?

+

But I dont think the expiry for upload.twitter.com and ads.twitter.com relate to each other.

Usually, the value (sec) of expires_after_secs means how long the media asset is available before being used. Once the media is used (e.g., in a Tweet), it becomes a permanent asset. Otherwise, if you don’t link this media asset (a video file in this case) then it will be expired after expires_after_secs seconds.

Does this make sense to you?

Also, there’s a case that expires_after_secs can be another indicator:

Upload media - POST media/upload (INIT)

The entire file must be uploaded before expires_after_secs seconds.

So in this case, you must complete your upload session before you hit expires_after_secs seconds. Once you completed sending FINALIZE command, expires_after_secs means just as usual that I mentioned originally above.

Thanks!
Shohei

[fahad1k]

If the campaign used with the video media (which is used via video websitecard of the ads.twitter.com api) has either of below condition, will it permanently never expire?

1. Campaign that is never having Campaign and Line Item Entity Status ACTIVE,
2. Campaign that is having IsServable False,
3. Campaign that is having IsDeleted True

As we know that for 2) once, the campaignendate is in the past, the campaign becomes IsServable False, so in this case will the media will still become permanent?

3. is particularly important because campaign and lineitem has a limit in Twitter, and we have many campaign that we have a process to make a campaign to IsDeleted: True.

Could you point out to any documentation on this issue?

[jrsyo]

Hi @fahad1k,

Just to be clear, “Campaign”, “Line Item”, “card” and “media”, those are all different objects.

Campaign > Line Item > card (tweet) > media
(e.g., Let’s say Campaign is a parent object)

So if you create a video/website card with a video/image then it will create a card object, and the media you link will not be deleted as I mentioned (it becomes permanent). Even if you delete a Campaign that is associated with a card that has the media (or finished the Campaign period), it can still be survived unless if you explicitly delete a card/media itself.

Best,
Shohei