The next episode

Create the next episode’s VideoAds while the current one plays, prefetch its ads, and destroy the current one when the viewer leaves. Any number can be alive at once; the SDK keeps at most one ad on screen in the whole app.

let next = VideoAds(content: nextEpisode)
Task { nextLinear = try? await next.format(.linear); try? await nextLinear?.load() }

// When the viewer moves on:
ads.destroy()
ads = next
ads.track(player)     // the player now plays the next episode

Call track(_:) when the episode actually starts in the player, not at creation: before that the player’s time belongs to the previous episode. For a post-roll, show this episode’s linear ad when it finishes, and move on only from its didEnd: destroy() ends the ad on screen too, a linear ad included.

func episodeFinished() {
    do {
        guard let postRoll else { return nextEpisode() }
        try postRoll.show()                  // destroy() now would end it
    } catch {
        nextEpisode()                        // not shown
    }
}

func videoAd(_ ad: VideoAd, didEnd reason: VideoAd.EndReason) {
    if ad === postRoll { nextEpisode() }
}

func nextEpisode() {
    ads.destroy()                            // after the post-roll's didEnd, never before
    ads = next
    ads.track(player)
}

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