A Slate encapsulates all the information necessary to represent a Slate entity, the video
creative used by Dynamic Ad Insertion to fill vacant ad slots.
Namespace
https://www.google.com/apis/ads/publisher/v202505
Field
id
xsd:long
The unique ID of the Slate. This value is read-only and is assigned by Google.
name
xsd:string
The name of the Slate. This value is required to create a slate and has a maximum
length of 255 characters.
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