http://www.wistia.com/doc/ 2012-05-17T04:29:56+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/ http://www.wistia.com/doc/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-04-26T18:53:37+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/account_management?rev=1335466417&do=diff A Video Guide to the Account Dashboard If I convert from a Trial to a Full Account, can I keep media I've uploaded? Yes! If you decide to convert from a Trial to a fully functional Wistia account, you will keep all the contacts, media, and settings you've created during your trial period. No need to start from scratch - we've got you covered! text/html 2012-01-24T00:03:57+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/advanced_app?rev=1327363437&do=diff Seek into a video on page load Want to show a client a particular clip in a video? Just add a “start” parameter to the query string and specify the position to seek to (in seconds). For example, if you have a video located at <http://myaccount.wistia.com/medias/123> and you want it to start playing at the 1 minute and 30 second mark, you'd link to the URL: text/html 2012-05-16T21:11:41+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/advanced_embeds?rev=1337202701&do=diff We think Wistia Super Embeds are pretty awesome. They make it easy for web video to look it's best. But sometimes our customers might be looking to do even more customization. This doc page will help answer some of the questions that come up with Wistia embed options. text/html 2011-04-08T22:23:13+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/alerts?rev=1302301393&do=diff What are email alerts? Email alerts are automated emails sent to Wistia managers (and in limited cases other users) which alert them to particular events which have occurred in their Wistia account. Alerts can be received for the following events: text/html 2012-03-09T15:42:41+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/analytics?rev=1331307761&do=diff Wistia stats are the best way to get a complete view of who is watching your video, how they are watching your video, and how your video initiatives are performing. This guide will show you how to approach the two parts of Wistia analytics, Stats Trends and the Viewer Stream. text/html 2012-04-11T19:32:55+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/api-enable?rev=1334172775&do=diff Before you can start developing applications that use the API, you need to enable your account for API access. Open up the Account Dashboard for your account (note, only the Account owner will be able to do this, so make sure you have those credentials). text/html 2012-03-08T22:45:16+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/audience_engagement_graph?rev=1331246716&do=diff ---------- Audience Engagement Graphs show how the audience as a whole has viewed your video, whereas heatmaps show how an individual watched your video. By looking at the Audience Engagement Graph, you can see where your audience rewinds and watches multiple times and when they stop watching. The blue section of the engagement graph shows the engagement of viewers who clicked play on the video. The orange section on top shows the number of times that section was re-watched. Move … text/html 2011-11-09T22:19:41+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/campaign_monitor?rev=1320877181&do=diff Campaign Monitor is great email marketing software. Their interface is elegant and easy to use, the team is top-notch and they have great taste in music. Oh, and creating an email campaign including a Wistia video with Campaign Monitor is easy, too! text/html 2011-07-19T14:27:09+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/clicky?rev=1311085629&do=diff Clicky Web Analytics are a great tool to track your webpage or blog's real-time performance with a variety of metrics. We use their dashboards to track visitors, how they found us, and what actions they are taking on our sites. For more on this, check out our blog post on reasons we love Clicky. Using some simple javascript, you can add video view tracking to your content dashboard in Clicky. Let's get started! text/html 2012-04-24T15:36:55+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/construct-an-embed-code?rev=1335281815&do=diff As long as you have the hashed_id for a video, you can easily produce an embed code without even hitting our servers! The hashed_id is a unique identifier to a video within the Wistia system. You can get hashed_ids for your videos via the Data API. text/html 2011-12-21T19:12:12+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/contacts?rev=1324494732&do=diff What is a contact? A contact is an individual named user that can view and access media within your Wistia account. Contacts can be given permission to download content, upload new videos, or invite other viewers on a project-by-project basis. All contact activity is recorded and viewable within the “User Sessions” portion of Wistia Stats. text/html 2012-01-23T18:15:13+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/data-api?rev=1327342513&do=diff The Wistia data API gives you all kinds of programmatic access to your Wistia account. The data is available in either JSON or XML format over HTTP. Wistia Data API Documentation The Wistia Data API documentation now has it's own page for ease of use (and simple bookmarking). Find it here: Wistia Data API docs. text/html 2012-04-11T19:38:12+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/domain-restrictions?rev=1334173092&do=diff Video embed domain restrictions allows you to prevent a malicious viewer from stealing your embed code off your page. When domain restriction is set up, the videos in your account will only display on the domains you specify. To get started with video embed domain restrictions: text/html 2012-03-27T16:24:58+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/dynamic_link?rev=1332865498&do=diff The table below contains information on email marketing tools and whether they support the creation of dynamic links. If they do support dynamic links, the URL email merge tag is also shown. If your email marketing is not shown, please feel free to email us at <support@wistia.com> and we can find out if your provider supports this feature. text/html 2012-05-16T17:27:46+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/email_marketing?rev=1337189266&do=diff [] Email marketing campaigns are great for engaging your prospects with timely messages. When done right, they can be an excellent driver of business value. Adding video to the mix is an effective way to increase click-through rates and maximize engagement with your message. Wistia makes it easy to integrate video with your email-marketing campaigns, as well as measure the results down to the individual viewer, second-by-second. After this tutorial you will be able to integrate vide… text/html 2012-01-10T22:45:05+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/embed_screen?rev=1326235505&do=diff After clicking the ”</> Embed” function under the player window or in the “Media Actions” drop-down menu, the Embed Screen is where you can choose your embed type, customize the player experience, and add social sharing functionality. Let's take a look at what options are available through the embed screen, and how you can use them for your publicly embedded videos. text/html 2010-02-04T22:47:05+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/embedded-login-form?rev=1265323625&do=diff It's easy to embed a Wistia login form on your website and style it how you like. Use the code below as a template, but substitute your Wistia account hostname for app.wistia.com. For example, if your account is located at <http://myaccount.wistia.com>, then you'd change all instances of <http://app.wistia.com> with <http://myaccount.wistia.com>. text/html 2012-01-06T22:16:01+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/embedding_in_google_sites?rev=1325888161&do=diff Google Sites can support Wistia video using an 'iframe wrapper' widget and the source from a typical iframe embed: First, choose the edit “pencil” in the upper-right-hand corner. Under the “Insert” drop-down menu, select the ”...more gadgets” option. text/html 2012-04-18T21:47:22+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/exporting?rev=1334785642&do=diff This article gives you the steps to export video from various video editors for optimal performance on Wistia. However, each video is different and each person will have different priorities for their videos. So feel free to explore and mess around with the custom settings in your video editor to discover what works best for you and your videos. text/html 2012-03-15T18:58:20+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/faq?rev=1331837900&do=diff The Wistia documentation FAQ are for the questions we've received over the years that stubbornly refuse to fit into a category. They deserved to be answered, and the FAQ is here to help. Questions * * * * * * * * * * * text/html 2012-01-19T20:27:43+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/google_analytics?rev=1327004863&do=diff At Wistia, we love analytics. One of our favorite tools (and our customer's too!) is Google Analytics, Google's tool to allow website managers to track the performance of their website along a variety of metrics, for free. While Wistia's analytics give you more in-depth information on video plays, putting basic 'video play' stats in Google Analytics can give you a better picture of your web visit metrics. This guide is here to help you get started integrating Wistia video tracking with your… text/html 2012-03-08T19:02:53+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/heatmaps?rev=1331233373&do=diff What is a Video Heatmap? A video heatmap is a graphical representation of a single viewing session of your video. Heatmaps contain viewer information, contextual information (when the video was watched and where) and a color-coded timeline which represents how the viewer interacted with the video. text/html 2011-03-02T21:43:07+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/howto_build_slimlist_themes?rev=1299102187&do=diff The Slimlist is an ultra-lightweight, video playlist framework built entirely in JavaScript. It has a powerful theme engine that allows for easy customization of the playlist. The documentation below should give you an overview of how to create a custom theme for your playlist. text/html 2012-03-19T14:25:54+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/html5-only-embed-codes?rev=1332167154&do=diff Every single Wistia embed code type automatically supports HTML5 when it detects a device that requires it (ie. iPhones, iPads). There is no extra work needed - standard HTML embed codes will work on your iOS device out-of-the-box. Forcing HTML5 In some cases, it makes sense to force the video to only display in HTML5 - skipping the device detection step altogether. With Wistia iframe embeds, forcing your videos to display in HTML5 is easy. text/html 2012-03-08T20:29:54+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/identity_tagging?rev=1331238594&do=diff ---------- Identity Tagging is all about who is watching your videos, and watching their behavior over time. Using emails and names, Wistia makes it easy to identify your most engaged viewers. Tagging Your Viewers by Email Using Email Marketing embeds, your viewers can be tagged by email in your account. Using special embed codes, viewers who click through from an email can be tagged, and this email tag will follow the viewer into the future. For Wistia customers with advanced web… text/html 2012-04-24T18:48:56+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/iframe-api?rev=1335293336&do=diff Accessing the Video Player API when using iframe embeds is easy! There is a script that can be used to access the player API from outside the iframe. It has the same interface as the normal player API, but with the caveat that it won't work in IE7 and below (it won't break anything, it just doesn't work). If you aren't too concerned with outdated browsers, this is the recommended way to access the player API. text/html 2012-05-10T15:26:31+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/integration?rev=1336663591&do=diff We love seeing Wistia videos out there in the wild. While for some of our customers, keeping all videos inside their private account makes the most sense. Other customers are looking to embed their videos anywhere, from content management platforms to blogs, personal webpages, and other web services. We have done our best to track down all the far-reaching places our customers have embedded Wistia videos. The table below highlights where the videos were placed, along with the embed types… text/html 2012-03-21T18:48:54+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/joomla?rev=1332355734&do=diff Joomla is an open-sourced platform that is very useful for managing content dynamically. Embedding your video on Joomla keeps visitors inside of your site experience, instead of navigating through public video communities. ---------- Embedding Wistia Video into Joomla Embedding your Wistia video into Joomla can be accomplished using the HTML or iframe embed codes provided through your Wistia account. For more on generating embed codes, please read the guide on embedding. There are… text/html 2012-04-23T22:03:05+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/mailchimp?rev=1335218585&do=diff [] MailChimp is our favorite email marketing system. When we need to send an email to our wonderful customers, and don't want it to get stuck in spam filters, we use MailChimp. They also provide some pretty neat tools for discovering how your email marketing funnel works. For our Wistia users, we wanted to create a seamless experience where they could send tailored email campaigns that included Wistia videos, and then track how their contacts interacted with the video itself. text/html 2012-01-10T22:40:41+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/marketers?rev=1326235241&do=diff Step 3. Start Sharing! Now that you have video uploaded and encoded with Wistia, there are lots of ways you can use that video to start marketing your brand message. We'll give you a few ideas below, but we're always open to hearing new ones! Shoot us an email at <support@wistia.com> if you want to talk through a new idea. text/html 2012-01-25T19:29:58+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/media?rev=1327519798&do=diff The Media Page is where you can interact with the individual media in your Account. Share it, check the stats, and embed it. 1. The Media Title The title of the Media is how you will find it in your Account. The title defaults to the name of the media you uploaded to your Account, but can be updated anytime. To edit the title, click on the title with your mouse and edit the text. Then press the 'return' button to finish editing. text/html 2012-03-08T20:46:06+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/media_stats?rev=1331239566&do=diff Wistia public analytics make it easy to see viewing data, from the high-level account view, down to the single media. To drill down to a single media stats view, follow these directions. First, open up the Media Page for your video (where you can watch the video in your account). Under the Media Actions drop-down menu, select “Stats”. text/html 2012-01-23T18:01:01+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/navigation?rev=1327341661&do=diff * Quickstart Guide * Uploading * Private Sharing * Public Sharing * Video Analytics & Stats * Projects * Media * Contacts * Account Management * Player API * Data API * Back to Wistia.com → text/html 2011-06-30T18:16:11+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/permissions?rev=1309457771&do=diff With Wistia, each contact in your account has a set of permissions. These permissions set out the rules for how they can interact with the files in your account. In general, the permissions users can have are: * Create Projects * Upload & Download Media * Share Media/Projects * Track Stats and Account Usage Levels * Create New Contacts * Embed Videos text/html 2012-03-02T22:33:54+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/player-api-examples?rev=1330727634&do=diff Example: Adding Chapter Links to a Video How it's Done Case 1: Chaptering Embedded video First, try embedding your video onto your page, to make sure it works properly without the chaptering links. Next, review the source code for your embedded video on your page. You'll notice some javascript similar to the following: text/html 2012-05-02T14:48:26+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/player-api?rev=1335970106&do=diff Overview The Wistia video player has a JavaScript API which supports a number of ways to interact with and control the video player. It uses the same interface for both Flash and HTML5 versions of the player, and provides convenience functions to accomplish common goals. text/html 2012-01-18T21:54:16+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/player-id-tag?rev=1326923656&do=diff Using the Video Player API, you can create simple ID tagging that passes user info into your Wistia stats. Your two options for executing this is: * using the 'wemail=' URL query string * a separate function using the trackEmail embed option. text/html 2012-05-14T15:36:49+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/playlists?rev=1337009809&do=diff Video playlists are a great way to embed multiple videos on your website through a single embed. Playlists allow you to update content in your playlist without messing with embed codes (even after embedding!). They take up less real estate than separate video embeds, while being easier to navigate. In short, they are a super cool and useful embed type. Wistia playlists (SlimLists) are representative of a Project's contents within your Wistia account. Embedded playlists automatically show… text/html 2011-11-09T17:09:20+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/podcast?rev=1320858560&do=diff Video Podcasting (Vodcasting) is one of the best ways to get consistently scheduled content out to your viewers. iTunes has made finding and subscribing to video podcasts easy. With Wistia's Project and Playlist functionality, you can create an RSS feed that will automatically update with the Video Title, Content, Thumbnail, and Description of each new video you add to the Project. In this tutorial, we'll see how to use Wistia's Playlist functionality to create an iTunes podcast. text/html 2011-09-07T15:20:55+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/posterous?rev=1315408855&do=diff Posterous is a simple blogging platform similar to Tumblr and Wordpress. Using Wistia's standard HTML embed codes, we can embed videos as part of the content for any blog you might be managing through Posterous. ---------- Posting Video to a Posterous Blog text/html 2012-04-25T15:12:17+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/postroll-params?rev=1335366737&do=diff Postroll Example (jump to the end!): Postroll Options: Option Name Type Description image string The image src for the call to action. link string The destination URL when you click the postroll. raw string The raw HTML for the call to action. style object The styles to be applied to the root postroll element. text string The text fo… text/html 2012-03-08T19:36:13+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/private_analytics?rev=1331235373&do=diff If you have invited viewers in to view videos in your account through the Private Sharing workflow, their analytics will show up in the Private Sessions area of your account. To view these viewing sessions, follow the directions below: To view the individual user statistics for people you invited into Wistia, select the “User sessions” option under the “Stats” tab at the top of any page in your Wistia account. text/html 2012-03-08T17:33:10+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/private_sharing?rev=1331227990&do=diff For many users, video is something that needs to be shared only amongst a few individuals; otherwise it should be completely private. With Wistia, your account is both secure and not indexed - you can't search Google to find the videos inside. So if you want to share the video, but keep it secure, this guide is here to help. Private sharing is right for you if you want to: text/html 2012-03-08T17:34:46+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/private_sharing_features?rev=1331228086&do=diff No time for reading? Check out this overview video on Private Sharing: Privately share video via email [] This is the best sharing method to use if you want to: * Invite people to privately view your video, and * Track how each individual (by email address) watches your video text/html 2012-01-23T23:24:45+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/projects?rev=1327361085&do=diff The Project Page is where you can access and manage the media contained within a Project. First...What the heck is a Project? A project is Wistia's method for grouping related media. You might create a project with all the training videos for your organization, or all the sales materials related to a specific product. You can think of Projects like the folders on your local computer: they are for storing your stuff in a logical manner. There are lots of uses and functions within proje… text/html 2012-01-23T21:50:26+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/projects_list?rev=1327355426&do=diff The Projects List page is the homepage of your account. From here, you can navigate to your Projects and create new ones. 1. The Projects List The #1 element above corresponds to the Projects list in your Account. The Projects list contains all of your Projects, sorted by “last updated”. In this way, the Projects you are currently working on will stay at the top. But we need to take one step back and define a Project! text/html 2012-03-08T17:28:50+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/public_sharing?rev=1331227730&do=diff [] Putting video on your website is the best way to get your message across. Video is an engaging medium that can communicate complex topics clearly and concisely, without a ton of effort from the viewer. At Wistia, our goal is to make it easy to embed video on your website, and get actionable analytics from your viewers interactions. This guide is designed to get you from a blank slate to having a great video streaming over the web, powered by Wistia. Public sharing is right for you … text/html 2012-05-03T21:25:43+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/quickstart?rev=1336080343&do=diff If you would prefer to view as a PDF, click here So you’ve signed up for a Wistia account. Welcome! Now what? Our Quickstart guide is here to help you navigate your account set-up and get started on accomplishing tasks that will bring value to your business. text/html 2012-04-06T22:22:19+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/randor?rev=1333750939&do=diff We know this web video stuff can be confusing! That's why we put together a video series to help. Not only will it answer some basic questions about how web video works, it will also guide you through Wistia. You'll be off to the races in no time! text/html 2012-05-16T21:02:19+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/randor_analytics?rev=1337202139&do=diff Show Notes Part I (0:08) This quote has been attributed to Peter Drucker. (0:50) Check the Analytics doc page for more on both Account Trends and the Viewer Stream. (1:40) For more on engagement graphs, head here. Part II (2:05) Yes indeed, we are that cheerful! text/html 2012-05-16T21:01:31+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/randor_basics?rev=1337202091&do=diff Show Notes Uploading (0:25) to create a New Project, select “New Project” from under the Actions drop-down menu (0:45) We did a bit of time-warping to accomplish this. It can take some time to upload & process videos! (1:00) For a list of the formats we accept, refer here: Optimal Export settings (1:15) This was the best thumbnail because Chris looks so awkward. Embedding (2:10) To see that video on customization, head here: Customizing Your Embed (2:20) In this example, I used a Wor… text/html 2012-05-16T21:01:52+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/randor_customization?rev=1337202112&do=diff Show Notes Part I (0:30) We're using Wordpress here, but you can use all sorts of website setups / CMS environments with Wistia. Check out our list of tested sites. (0:35) Normally Alyce sets up the Wordpress blog post, and then tells me what size the video needs to be to fit within the post. We've also chosen a color we use for all our blog embeds. (1:00) All settings within the SuperEmbed builder apply to embedded video only, not video that plays from within your account. It also doesn'… text/html 2012-05-16T21:02:06+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/randor_promoting?rev=1337202126&do=diff Show Notes Email Marketing (0:35) there isn't necessarily a strict definition of 'business-type fun'. (0:45) Email clients (like Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail, Sparrow) are designed to strip out video and anything else that might be malicious. This approach is the closest we can get at the present time to allowing your viewers to watch video from an email. There are actually lots of benefits from doing it this way - for starters, the viewer ends up on your site, where they can buy your produc… text/html 2012-04-13T15:31:28+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/replaceable-video?rev=1334331088&do=diff Just like Ben says in the video, we all make mistakes. If you've embedded a video, and now you need to update it in a hurry, the Replace Video tool is a quick and easy way to get it done. As a bonus, you won't lose stats already created for the original video. NOTE: you can replace any video in your account using this feature, but in order for the change to appear automatically on your website, you'll need to use iframe embeds. text/html 2012-01-06T21:32:01+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/salesforce-email?rev=1325885521&do=diff Many organizations that use video in their sales process also use Salesforce.com to manage their leads, opportunities, and sales pipelines. As a result, Wistia has integrated with Salesforce.com to allow Salesforce.com users to associate activity in their Wistia account with contacts, leads, and opportunities in Salesforce.com. text/html 2011-04-14T16:15:24+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/security?rev=1302797724&do=diff At Wistia, we take security seriously. We know that keeping your data safe, available, and backed up is critical when trusting a service provider with your data. We don't expect anything less from our vendors and neither should you. Below is an overview of our external and internal security policies and procedures so that you can relax and focus on what you do best – running your business. From catastrophe planning to low level encryption of credentials, Wistia's focus on security allows you… text/html 2011-12-21T19:11:29+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/share-privately?rev=1324494689&do=diff Once you have uploaded your videos to your project, from within the project hover over the “Project Actions” menu and choose the “Share Project” option. Enter the emails of the people you'd like to invite in the “Share with” box. Assign the permissions you'd like them to have for this project. You can allow them to upload, download original files, or share with others. You can also choose whether the user needs a password to access the content. text/html 2012-02-27T18:59:05+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/show-your-stats?rev=1330369145&do=diff Publicly Accessible Stats Getting Started ---------- Sometimes you want to let your users see the statistics for a given video on your site. At Wistia, we're more than happy to provide a publicly accessible page with anonymized statistics. However, this functionality is not enabled by default, so before continuing, please contact us (or send an email to <support@wistia.com>) to request it to be enabled for your account. After you have received confirmation that the feature has been turn… text/html 2012-05-14T17:24:31+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/simple-uploader?rev=1337016271&do=diff If you are having trouble with uploads completing, please try our simple uploader without the progress bar. If you do not see the message below, simply click on the ”?” in the circle on the right-hand side of the bar below the Project title. The simple uploader can be accessed by clicking the “simple uploader” link as shown in the image below. text/html 2012-03-26T15:49:23+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/social-bar?rev=1332776963&do=diff Wistia provides a social button bar for embedded videos. The buttons on the bar make it easy for your viewers to share your content on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and others. It also includes a customizable logo area, which can act as a link back to your content for SEO purposes! text/html 2012-05-09T20:34:48+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/social-sharing?rev=1336595688&do=diff Social Media can drive some serious ROI if done right. Vehicles like Facebook and Twitter can be used to spread a business message effectively, especially if delivered in an easy to consume and share way. The best way to do that is with video - it's perfect for social media attention spans, so it tends to 'travel' better than blocks of text. Now that you've got your video uploaded to Wistia, how do you share it and track the performance on Social Media sites? This tutorial will help. The… text/html 2012-04-23T14:09:40+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/socialbar-params?rev=1335190180&do=diff Social Sharing Example: Socialbar Options: Option Name Type Description badgeImg string The src attribute of the logo image. badgeUrl string The URL that the logo launches when you click on it. buttons string Dash-delimited list of buttons to display. … text/html 2012-04-10T19:30:11+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/ssl?rev=1334086211&do=diff The SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, protocol makes communications transported over the Internet even more secure. For our clients that want to embed video on HTTPS pages, but want to avoid those pesky security warnings, we've created SSL embedding. You need SSL embedding if your URL begins with 'https'. text/html 2012-04-24T15:55:08+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/start?rev=1335282908&do=diff At Wistia, we're obsessed with helping customers get the most out of their video marketing initiatives. The docs cover everything from the first-visit basics to Jedi-level advanced topics. ---------- [] New to web video and Wistia? Project Randor is a fun yet comprehensive video series designed to get you from beginner to Wistia expert in just one sitting! text/html 2012-03-08T19:31:26+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/stats-api?rev=1331235086&do=diff Wistia provides a simple API to access individual viewer data for Wistia videos embedded on your website. This data is provided in a comma-separated value (CSV) format. In the CSV file, each line represents one view of the video. The data provided includes: text/html 2012-05-01T18:38:02+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/super_embed_screen?rev=1335897482&do=diff After clicking the ”</> Embed” function under the player window or in the “Media Actions” drop-down menu, the Embed Screen is where you can choose your embed type, customize the player experience, and add social sharing functionality. Let's take a look at what options are available through the embed screen, and how you can use them for your publicly embedded videos. text/html 2012-04-25T15:11:41+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/transcript-params?rev=1335366701&do=diff Transcript Example: Transcript Options: Option Name Type Description canCollapse boolean Determines whether the transcript can be toggled open/closed. Defaults to false. canDownload boolean Determines whether a download link is provided on the interactive transcript. Defaults to false. … text/html 2012-04-16T16:00:34+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/transcripts?rev=1334592034&do=diff Transcripts are an incredible way for viewers to follow the content of your video. Our transcripts are also linked word by word to your video, so your viewers can jump ahead (or rewind) by simply clicking on a specific word in the transcript. The transcripts can also be indexed as part of your video sitemap, which makes the transcript extremely powerful for SEO purposes. See more about our transcript product on the transcripts tour page. So how do you go about creating a transcript? This … text/html 2012-04-25T15:12:42+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/turnstile-params?rev=1335366762&do=diff Turnstile Example: Turnstile slides an extremely simple form over the video as soon as it's ready to play. The sizing of the top and bottom text is determined by the height of the video by default. If you specify the fontSize property in the style option, you can override the default sizing. text/html 2011-12-21T19:00:37+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/upload-video?rev=1324494037&do=diff No time for readin'? Check out this video guide to uploading your videos: ---------- Uploading a Video All content in Wistia must be uploaded inside a Project. Projects work just like folders on your computer - great for organizing and managing your stuff. To create a new Project, select “New Project” under the “Actions” drop-down menu on the Projects list page of your account (where all your other Projects are listed). Once you are in your new Project, you can give it a tit… text/html 2012-01-23T20:58:13+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/upload-widget-generator?rev=1327352293&do=diff Upload widgets are perfect for consumer generated content (ie. your viewers upload content they created directly to a Wistia project). Using Wistia Upload Widgets creates an “upload button” on a public page you specify. Upload Widgets are available to enterprise-level plans only. For more technical information on how Upload Widgets work, read on here: technical API docs on Upload Widgets. To generate an upload widget embed code for a project, follow these steps: text/html 2011-12-09T15:35:53+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/upload-widget?rev=1323444953&do=diff Upload Widget The Upload Widget is a snippet of HTML, CSS, and JS that you can embed on your page to allow viewers of that page to upload their own media to your site. It's great for user generated content campaigns (UGC). Upload Widget Generator Wistia has an Upload Widget Generator that you can use to make embedding an upload widget easy and quick for non-technical users. The rest of this page is geared primarily towards developers that want more control over how their page behaves with t… text/html 2012-05-14T14:47:16+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/uploading-and-transcoding?rev=1337006836&do=diff How to upload to Wistia To learn how to upload to Wistia, please see our Upload Guide. What types of files can be uploaded to Wistia? Any file of any type can be uploaded to Wistia. For supported file types, Wistia creates web-viewable versions of the files. Explictly supported file types include: text/html 2012-05-08T16:34:20+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/video-seo-troubleshooting?rev=1336494860&do=diff Want a quick overview of the Video SEO workflow? Check out this video: Still Having Trouble? Nothing ruins your mood like an error message you can't fix. We're here to help! The suggested changes below will resolve the issues you're running into with Video SEO. text/html 2012-05-04T17:49:30+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/video-seo?rev=1336153770&do=diff Video SEO is the act of proactively submitting your content, through what’s called a “Video Sitemap”, so that it’s easier for Google and other search engines to find it. Once your video sitemap is submitted your videos can: * Appear inline in universal search results * Send people directly to your website when clicked on in search results * Boost overall placement for your page * Appear in video specific search results, like <http://video.google.com> text/html 2011-07-20T19:26:43+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/viewer-rec?rev=1311190003&do=diff Operating Systems Supported: No worries on which operating system your viewers are using - Wistia is friendly with almost every OS on every planet we are aware of, especially: Browsers Supported: Wistia will work on any browser that supports Adobe Flash and/or HTML5. The only requirement for viewing Flash content is Flash Player 7 or greater. To check which version of Flash you are running, please click . To ensure the best play-back, we typically recommend remaining up to date with yo… text/html 2012-05-10T15:18:17+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/wordpress?rev=1336663097&do=diff Wistia and Wordpress go together like...chocolate and marshmallow (insert your favorite food pairing). Wordpress is a great platform, but it's not always so nice to things like iframes and javascript (which are essential for video embed codes). To prevent issues with your Wistia embeds in Wordpress, we built the Wistia Wordpress Plug-in. text/html 2012-01-06T19:24:44+00:00 http://www.wistia.com/doc/wordpress_seo?rev=1325877884&do=diff Adding the Wistia XML Sitemap Entry to a Wordpress 'Robots.txt' File If you are looking to use your Wordpress page with Wistia's Video SEO tool, you will need to update your Robots.txt file. For more on Video SEO and the Robots.txt file, check out our Video SEO primer. To update your Robots.txt file in Wordpress, you will need a special plug-in called 'KB Robots.txt'. You can find more info on the plug-in here and download it for your Wordpress page here.