Buckswood Studios – buckswood.art

Static site on Vercel (vercel.json: no build, clean URLs). Pushing to main deploys live.

URL	File	What
/	index.html	Microdrama platform home: featured banner, trending, new episodes, all series, plans
/watch	watch.html	Vertical player, deep links like /watch#the-new-cleaner-2
/about	about.html	Studio, results and the case, partner contact
/series/<id>	series/*.html	One indexable page per series (generated)
/impressum, /datenschutz	impressum.html, datenschutz.html	Legal pages
/editor	editor.html	Old landing page of the AI Video Production Editor (moves elsewhere)
/microdramas	redirect	→ /

Series and episodes live in one place: assets/catalog.js. Shared look: assets/platform.css. After changing the catalog run node scripts/build-seo.mjs: it rebuilds series/*.html and sitemap.xml. Fonts are self-hosted in assets/fonts/ (no Google Fonts requests).

Deploy: pushing to main does not deploy on its own; trigger a production deployment in Vercel (or via the Vercel MCP create_deployment, target production). Local preview: any static server that maps /watch to watch.html (e.g. npx serve).

Microdramas

• Episodes: media/episodes/ (720p MP4). To add one: encode it to 720×1280 H.264 with faststart, add a poster still to assets/microdramas/, add an entry in assets/catalog.js.
• Free viewers get a pre-roll ad through the Google IMA SDK; Premium viewers get none. Settings sit at the top of the script in watch.html:
  • AD_TAG: currently Google's public sample tag. Replace it with the VAST tag of your own Google Ad Manager ad unit before launch.
  • STRIPE_LINK: Stripe Payment Link for Premium. Empty = "Notify me" mail link.
  • AD_EVERY: one ad before every Nth episode.
• Premium is a prototype: the flag lives in the viewer's browser (localStorage), and the dialog has a "Preview" switch. Before charging money, Premium has to come from a server (login + Stripe webhook).
• Consent: assets/consent.js + consent.css show a banner on every platform page; the IMA SDK loads only after "Accept all". Footer link "Cookie settings" reopens it.

Connecting Google Ad Manager

1. Create an AdSense account (adsense.google.com) for www.buckswood.art and wait for approval.
2. Open Google Ad Manager (admanager.google.com) with the same Google account and link AdSense.
3. Inventory → Ad units → new unit "buckswood-preroll", type video. Copy its VAST tag into AD_TAG in watch.html.
4. ads.txt and the google-adsense-account meta tag are in place for publisher pub-2272299323344536 (AdSense, 2026-11-12).
5. Privacy & messaging → create a European regulations (GDPR) message. Google's certified consent message then replaces assets/consent.js; keep the rule that the IMA SDK loads only after consent.