The Embed Screen & You

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.



There are two main Wistia player embeds types - "inline" and "popovers". Popovers create a lightbox experience for your viewers (click here for an example). The advanced embed types area allows you to customize the dimensions on your player, and gives you access to advanced embed code types. If you have Video SEO sitemaps created, require access to the player API, or use SSL embeds, these options will appear here as well.


Wistia player customization makes it easy to style your video embeds - without it getting in the way of what's most important (it's the content!). Change the color, pick the controls you want your viewers to see, and set the start and end behavior of your video. The power is in your hands.

You might notice there isn't an 'HD button' included in your options. That's because we don't use one! In short, when your viewer full-screens the video, your video will switch to HD automatically (if their bandwidth can handle it). The HD button is a thing of the past.


The social sharing section allows you to add sharing buttons for your favorite social services. Let your viewers share links to your content on Facebook and Twitter (and many more), and add a badge (like your logo!) in the lower-right-hand corner. It's easy, clean, and stays out of the way of your video.

If you allow your viewers to copy the embed code of the video, the badge and URL will travel with the video, making it a great option for track-back links.

With the social bar, you can upload your company's logo as a badge. For best results, use a size of 100px x 20px, where possible. You can also let the system auto-resize or crop your logo to fit.

By default, the buttons will link back to the page you embedded the video on, but if you like just select "A specific page" and enter the URL you want the social buttons to link back to.


After your video is finished playing, give your viewers an action to take. It's a great way to boost engagement and guide your viewers' next steps. You can use an image or text URL as a call-to-action link, or enter your own HTML (for creating a form, etc.).


Wistia Interactive Transcripts are excellent for longer-form content and SEO purposes. Control the layout of your transcript when you embed it with SuperEmbeds (more on generating transcripts here).


Now with Wistia Turnstile, you can add a pre-roll email registration field to your embedded videos. Build a email list of viewers around engaging content - it's a great way to drive business.

Customize the text boxes on the form to add a special message for your viewers, and also set the color for the overlay.






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