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
