Set up a sharing page for your videos

Whenever you share a link to a video, your viewers watch the video on a sharing page.

Besides making it easy to share video with your audience, the sharing page is also an opportunity to shape the experience that viewers have when they interact with your company, to build trust and maintain brand consistency.

In Vidyard, you can set up a sharing page for your videos based on the folder(s) they belong to. For each sharing page, you can:

• customize the page design
• change who has access to the page
• optimize the page for SEO
• change the page URL to match your company brand

Set up a new sharing page

A sharing page is associated with the folder in Vidyard where the page is set up. Before you get started, navigate to the folder in Vidyard that contains the videos and subfolders that you want the page to apply to.

1. Sign in to your Vidyard account
2. Open Sharing Pages from the main menu (Channels > Sharing Page)
   • If needed, select Change Folder to switch into the folder where you want to set up the sharing page
3. Select Create to set up your sharing page
   • If a sharing page already exists for the folder, select Edit to continue
   • If the folder already inherits a sharing page from another folder, select Override to set up a new page. Learn more about overriding inheritance.

Edit your page design

When you set up a sharing page, you can change basic design elements such as adding your company logo, a favicon (the image in a browser tab), and the page’s background color.

If you want to customize your page with HTML, CSS and Javascript, open Advanced Settings to launch the code editor.

• Open the  Design menu to make changes to your page design

• To set up your page quickly, select Set up brand from your website
  • Enter the link for your website. Vidyard will automatically fetch the logo and favicon from the link for your sharing page.
  • Alternatively, skip this step to upload your own images.
    
    
• Select the Upload buttons to add a logo and favicon image from your computer
  • Supported file types for logos include .png, .jpg, .jfif, or .gif (max 3MB)
  • Favicons require an .ico file (either 32x32 or 16x16 in size). We recommend favicon.io to convert different image types into .ico.

• Add a link to your logo with a Link to web field. When viewers click on the logo, send them to your website or another URL.
  
  
• Change your page’s Background color
  • Use the color palette and slider to manually adjust the color
  • Alternatively, use RGB or hex codes to enter a precise color
    
    
• Use the toggles to show or hide your video title or description on the page
  • By default, your video’s title appears above the video player. The description appears below the video.
  • You can change the title of a video and its description on the video’s edit page
    
    
• Use the Allow Replies toggle to enable a comment section underneath the video on the page
  
  
• Select Save to finalize your changes

Choose who can access the sharing page

You can decide who has access to the sharing page when viewers receive a link to watch your videos.

Access to your sharing page is a separate, but complementary layer of security on top of the access settings for your videos. For example, you might choose to restrict access to your sharing page with SSO but also protect the video that you share with a password.

• Open the  Access menu to change the page’s access settings
• Select Manage next to “Who can access?”
• Change your sharing page access ( Anyone with a link or  Single Sign On users), then select Update

Allow viewers to download videos

You can add a button on your sharing page that allows viewers to Download a copy of the video.

Your viewers can download the video as an .mp4 in different resolution qualities, starting at 360p up to the maximum resolution of the original video file.

• Open the Access menu, then switch the Allow Download toggle to On

Add integrations to your sharing page

Connecting to third-party apps allows you to extend the capabilities of your sharing page and work with your existing analytics, chat and marketing automation tools.

1. Open the  Advanced Settings menu
2. Next Manage next to Add-on Integrations
3. Select Add next to the app that you want to connect to your sharing page
   • In most cases, you require an account ID or similar value from the app you want to connect in order to automatically add its script(s) to the sharing page

Below is a table with each of the different integration add-ons and they add to your sharing page:

Sharing page domain and URL settings

Sharing pages start with a default Vidyard-branded domain: share.vidyard.com. This domain allows you to start sharing videos with an out-of-the-box web address that is SSL secure.

If you want your sharing page to better reflect your company brand and align with the domain of your other web properties, you can change the domain of the sharing page in URL Settings.

1. Open the  Advanced Settings menu
2. Select Manage next to URL Settings
3. Open the Route Type dropdown menu to change domains
4. Select Save to finish

The following table describes the different domain options that you can choose for your sharing page.

Set up a fallback URL

Regardless of which domain option you choose, you can always set a Fallback URL. A fallback URL redirects page visitors to a different web address if, for whatever reason, the sharing page fails to load or no longer exists.

SEO & search engine indexing

By default, your sharing page URLs are not searchable on Google or other search engines. If you want your videos to gain greater public exposure, you can turn on Enable search engine indexing.

When enabled, search engine indexing allows search engine web crawlers to find videos that use your sharing page. It may take several days for videos to start appearing in Google searches.

When search engine indexing is disabled, a noindex tag is added to the page’s metadata that tells web crawlers you do not want the page to appear in internet search results.

1. Open the  Advanced Settings tab
2. Select Manage next to URL Settings
3. Use the Enable search engine indexing toggle to turn indexing ON or OFF

Customize your page with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

*May require help from a web developer or person with coding experience

If you have the right know-how, you can use HTML and CSS to customize the header and footer of your sharing page. For example, you may want to use the same header and footer as your company website.

Once you agree to Allow JavaScript, you can add scripts and introduce dynamic behavior to the header and body of the page.

• Under  Advanced Settings, select Launch Code Editor
• As you use the code editor, make sure to periodically Save. Use the View Changes button to see your code changes.
  • Custom code changes are not reflected on the sharing page mock-up within Vidyard
• Make sure to review our list of supported HTML tags and attributes and CSS classes that you can target on the page
• Need inspiration? Review some popular sharing page templates and sample code

Override an inherited sharing page

When you set up a sharing page, it automatically applies to any subfolders contained within the parent folder where the page is set up. This is called inheritance. For example: when you set up a sharing page in Folder B, its subfolders B-1, B-2 and B-3 inherit the sharing page for their videos.

If you want the videos in a subfolder to use a sharing page with different design, access and URL/domain settings, you can Override the inherited sharing page to set up a new one.

1. Select Channels > Sharing page from the main menu
2. Select the Change Folder button to navigate to the folder where you want to use a different sharing page
3. Select Override
4. Choose how you want to start a new page
   • Use Copy design from parent folder to carry over the design settings from the parent folder
   • Use Create brand new sharing page to start from scratch
5. Select Continue to edit your new sharing page