Google creative status code 162: Creative filtered because it lacks a VPAID JavaScript file in the VAST

Google creative statusReturned in ${CREATIVE_STATUS_CODE}

What Google creative status says

Creative filtered because it lacks a VPAID JavaScript file in the VAST

Google returns this number in ${CREATIVE_STATUS_CODE} on the loss notice. It is not an ${AUCTION_LOSS} value. A search for Google creative status code 162 is this status.

What was checked

Google compared the creative on the bid with the constraint named in this status.

What to change

Status 162 names the constraint. It clears when that condition is gone. Bidding the same creative again returns 162.

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