Solution - Vidgets
Announcements
The announcement vidget lets you send live messages and alerts to your users. Add an image (optional) with free text and a link to your notifications. This gives you control over how to present your notifications and when to show it.
The announcement vidget can be remain open to your viewers and get updated by push notifications from the editor. Features:
- Post announcements easily
- Optional link to notifications and a relevant image for promotion
- Live updates
- Track clicks
- Drive traffic to other pages
- Easily noticed by users
Social Chat
The Social Chat vidget lets your users to share comments in real-time as they interact during a live event. Live stream comments are then shared to multiple social networks.
- Users are able to see all comments made by any chat member, even if they are not signed-in.
- Refreshed periodically, adding real-time commentary to the webcast.
- Chat comments are shared as status updates to the users’ social network feeds, helping to drive social referral traffic back to the live event
Polls
Want to know your viewers’ opinions on a certain subject? Want to get your viewers more engaged? You can do it with this poll vidget – and in real time!.
- Voting updates in real time
- Attach pictures to answers
- Defining different polls and popping them up in real time
- NEW! Share the poll with a social network directly via the vidget
- NEW! Auto resizing poll by the number of answers
Ticker
The Ticker vidget displays different feed sources on your video including Twitter, RSS and Atom. Adding this vidget places a dynamic ticker over your video that sorts the messages according to their time signature. This vidget also comes with a few different configuration options including the message movement speed, direction, the separator image and more.
- Keep your viewers updated with relevant information in a non-intrusive manner
- Customize to your site’s look and feel
- Linkable messages to drive traffic to other places in your site
Using the Facebook vidget will help increase your fan base, reduce click-aways to Facebook, and enhance user interactions within the video.
This vidget includes the ability to import a user’s news feed, import your full Fan Page feed from Facebook as well as the ability to post messages to Facebook into those streams.
- Bring your dedicated Facebook fan page stream a top the video!
- Bring the user’s news feed into the vidget.
- Status line update – instant invitations for friends to come and watch.
This vidget brings the powers of Twitter’s real-time messaging, allowing your viewers to follow dedicated streams of twitter messages – relating to the viewed content – and share their thoughts with the Twitter community.
- Content-related lists of twitter streams, defined by different tags
- Dedicate a list of streams to a specific source
- Creating a unique experience by defining different tags to different broadcasts
- NEW! supports multi tag stream!
Picture-in-Picture
This vidget allows your viewers to enjoy even more content, while they watch a certain video, thus increasing viewers’ retention and exposure to new content. In relevant cases, this vidget can host broadcasts from other related cameras.
- Defining specific content for relevant broadcasts
- Hosting videos from your own location
- Switching between the main screen and this vidget screen (coming soon)
Bubbles
This vidget gives your viewers the power to leave comments that pop up in a specific time slot. This is an advanced form of annotations and fits best with on-demand type of content.
- Adding screen shots of the moment to bubble comments
- Sending comments and screen shots to social networks (coming soon)
- Activating bubble pop ups only when reached in the time line
- Rating system for viewers to vote on their favorite bubbles
