In this week's Flex Templates release, we have improved the functionality of AMP ads to automatically place new ads on longer stories and allow multiple sizes if available. We are also making a few other improvements and fixes.
NEW FEATURES
The new Advanced Automatic Ads functionality has been extended to place automatic ads in articles on AMP pages. The default ad position is "fixed-automatic-ad-amp[#]" unless over-ridden by the "AMP Ad Unit (Override)" page customization. (FLEXBLOX-6911)
AMP Ad units now support the following ad sizes: 336x280, 300x250, 320x50, 300x50, 320x100, and 300x100.  (FLEXBLOX-7076)
We have added media:subtitles for Field59 remote video assets in RSS feeds. (FLEXBLOX-7083)
There is now a new URL property in the advertising panel in page customizations that accepts a comma-separated list of Lotame audience IDs. Fixed in-story and Advanced Automatic ads will be disabled for those audiences when the field is used. (FLEXBLOX-7355)
We are adding a light graphical box around the Tribute Store link on obituary pages using this feature. This box will help separate out the gift store link versus the obituary content. (FLEXBLOX-7410)
CHANGES
New icons have been added for desktop, mobile and tablet images in our Font Awesome library. (FLEXBLOX-6847)
Some settings passed through the BLOX video asset now work better with the BitCentral player. (FLEXBLOX-7392)
We have updated the code that runs the radar map on the weather pages. (FLEXBLOX-7398)
BUG FIXES
The creative template for "PAW" (Pencil And Wallpaper) ads will now open a new tab or window when a user clicks on the background image ad. (FLEXBLOX-7406)
In some edge cases, the author hover card was not properly displaying content. This has been fixed. (FLEXBLOX-7408)
If an asset in a paging gallery doesn't have a preview, the carousel will no longer break. (FLEXBLOX-7412)
The json LD output for "VideoObject" has now been encoded so that certain characters no longer cause parsing errors. (FLEXBLOX-7443)
There was an issue related to custom site messages that caused web push notifications to have problems in some edge cases. This has been resolved. (FLEXBLOX-7471)
TEMPLATE DEVELOPERS
Two new "opt" insertion points have been added to the asset_share macro, allowing for more customization. They are "opt_shareBottom()" and "opt_shareTop()". (FLEXBLOX-7405)
