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Archive for February 2010

Domain Control: How To Better Protect Your Video Content

24 Feb 2010
Ian
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Following on from last week’s post on the launch of our Domain Control feature I wanted to share some further insight into how it works so you can decide if its worth turning on.

So What Exactly Is Domain Control?

If we turn to Wikipedia then they tell us that…

Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).

What? Well in other words if your website is hosted on a specific domain (e.g. vzaar.com) then it is possible to ensure your videos will only play on the domain (and any variant of this domain). So if you don’t want your videos to appear on other websites, and in doing so have greater control over who can and who can’t see your videos, then you’ll want to consider using this feature. If embedded on any other website, the viewer will see a simple message that looks like this:

I Sell On eBay?

If you have your own website, and sell on eBay, I would recommend that you do not use this option as you will want to ensure that your videos play across all the eBay domains (.com, .co.uk, .de etc)

Ok, So How Do I Turn This On?

Simple. Head over to your vzaar Settings Page and you’ll see a Domain Control box. In there simply enter your business website domain (e.g. www.mywebsite.com). Please note that you do not need to enter the http://

Save this and we’ll instantly ensure your videos can only be played on the web domain selected. It is that easy.

* Read our Help Page on Domain Control
* See our Features Page on Domain Control

Categories Technology, Video Advice
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New Features from the vzaar Lab

19 Feb 2010
jamie
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The team have been busy bringing to life a series of new features designed to improve the management of your videos. Whilst there is still some tweaking to be done with the UI, we wanted to get these out there as overall they improve the user experience and it can never hurt to get some real time feedback. So let me introduce to you…

Video Analytics – beta
Understanding who is watching your video, when they are watching and significantly where is the need of many video marketeers. That’s why we have utilised the power of Google to now enable users to track the activity on their videos via their own Google Anlaytics account.

By adding your unique Analytics Tracking Code ID (e.g. UA-#######-#) vzaar will tie your account to your vzaar videos and you can track the activity of those in real time from within your Google Analytics admin panel. This feature is very much in beta at the moment. There are still further improvements for us to make but for the time being paying customers are free to test the feature.

End Screen Text
This one snuck in under the radar last week and its a neat little feature that gives the video owner a little bit more control over the final frame of their video. Where we currently serve a simple Replay button, the video owner can now add their own supporting text and web link. A simple add, but one that offers the owner a little more control over their viewer’s next step. Do they send them to the shopping cart, to a survey or perhaps a page of supporting information relating to the video just viewed.

More on our End Screen Text feature can be read here

Domain Control
With more and more content being created by businesses its important you control who can and perhaps who can’t watch your videos. Not only so that you can perhaps control the type of audience that is driving your bandwidth consumption (a key component of our business model) but also so that you can protect against the unauthorised distribution of your content. Perfect for company intranets or cases where you want to ensure a select community only can view your video, domain control allows the video owner to dictate which web domain (e.g. http://mywebsite.com) a video can only be played on.

All these new features you will find in the vzaar Settings Page.

Bulk Uploader – alpha
We know that some businesses want to upload video to their account en mass. Time is money. Yep we get it. So here is our very first version of our bulk video uploader. In alpha, it means you can now queue and upload a number of videos in one go. At the moment you can add titles to these videos whilst they load but you can only select one player size for all. That is something that we’ll be looking to address in the next iteration of the uploader.

Click here to test the bulk uploader

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End Screen Text…you decide?

18 Feb 2010
Ian
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Ian

New Feature Alert! Enter….**End Screen Text** a new fearure just released that does what it says. It allows you to customise the text shown at the end of the video which can also be tuned into a link. I can think of few use cases for this.

  1. If you are selling an item you could ask the viewer if they would like to buy the item & the link could take the user to the page that allows them to make the purchase.
  2. The message could also simply be a nice closing message such as “Thank for watching my video”
  3. You could even ask the viewer to take a survey or fill out a form by adding a link from Woofoo
    This feature can be found in your settings page and it looks like this:

Tip! If you want several different messages depending on the video it is important to understand how this works. If you add some text to the “End Screen Text” field in the the settings page and then upload a video. The video embed code will reflect your changes. So if you then embed that video on to your website you are then free to change the text for the next video. The embed code is effected on vzaar by changes made in the settings page. Once the video embed code is embeded on your site it will not be affected by changes made in the vzaar settings page.

Woofoo A great service for building forms and surveys that you can publish using the embed code or url link provided.

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16 Feb 2010
Ian
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Speak to vzaar!

11 Feb 2010
jamie
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In the last week we’re added a neat [new calendar feature](http://vzaar.com/book) that means you can now book one-to-one appointments with the vzaar team.
The team here are more than happy to work with you to make video a success for your business so if you have certain questions about:
- The vzaar platform
- Our features
- Billing
- General tips on video best practice
Or indeed any other question then do book a slot and we’ll call you! We are available Monday to Friday and you can book as many slots as often as you’d like.
You can book an appointment from today [here](http://vzaar.com/book)

Categories Community, Team vzaar, Video Advice
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