VIDDIX Blog http://www.viddix.com/blog Interactive video news and insights. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:45:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Better insight http://www.viddix.com/blog/2010/08/18/better-insight/ http://www.viddix.com/blog/2010/08/18/better-insight/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:47:19 +0000 Sebastien http://www.viddix.com/blog/?p=216 All VIDDIX accounts now have access to a new statistics section! This way you will get better insight into the performance of your interactive videos.

Here’s an impression of what you get to see if you look at the statistics of a VIDDIX Dual-Screen video:

Of course there is an overview of your daily visitors, but next to that we added two ratios (pie charts) that give you insight in returning VS new viewers and whether viewers stick around until the end of the video or not.

Custom iPanel tracking
Using a simple JavaScript call it is now possible to track clicks on custom content in the iPanel. This allows you to get a better understanding of the actions of your viewers.

The new statistics section will only display new data, historical data will not be available. We are still improving the data and functionality of the new statistics, so there will be some additional updates and changes in the coming months.

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Your videos will load even faster now! We jumped from Amazon S3 to Amazon CloudFront, the smart Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Amazon. This system will select the server that is nearest to the viewers of your video. So whether your audience is located in the US, Europe or Japan, they will always get fast access to your footage!

In the next weeks we will work on the next step of Amazon integration. We will keep you posted on that as we roll out the updates.

Enjoy the speed!

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The old and the new Overlay Player.

As you can see we eliminated the top and side bars to give more room for the actual video. This design also helps our users with the integration of the player in their own design, as the design is less dominant.

We hope you enjoy the new design!

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For everyone

  • Overlay load times
    Overlays are now optimized to load 10x faster than before. Well, that’s pretty much all there is to say.

  • Full-screen overlays
    The full-screen option in the Overlay Player now scales the overlays. We are still tweaking the scaling, but we are very pleased with the first results and wanted you to be able to enjoy it.

  • Video quality enhancement
    The quality of your existing videos will be enhanced by a new technique we applied to the Overlay Player that smooths the rough edges. New videos will benefit from higher bitrates and better compression.

For Business Accounts

  • Overlay Opacity
    Tweak the opacity of your overlays as you like. The default value is 90% but we leave it up to you to decide what value suits your specific case.

  • Target
    Choose the target of your overlay link, the default value is a new (blank) window but you can choose to use the existing window instead. That way you can let your viewers click-through for a smoother experience.

  • Pause on click optional
    When a viewer clicks on an overlay the video pauses on default. In some cases you might want to let the video continue to play after a viewer clicks, so we made that an option.


We hope you enjoy the updates and will keep you posted on any new developments!

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Check the introduction video:


Enrich your video with links to your Twitter or Facebook account, or give your viewers a link to an interesting entry on Wikipedia. Link to anything you want! So what are you waiting for? Try it out!

Furthermore we did a complete redesign of the VIDDIX website. We hope you like the new and colorful VIDDIX. Let us know what you think!

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Old player

Old VIDDIX Dual-Screen Player

New player

New VIDDIX Dual-Screen Player

As you can see there are several other subtle differences like the new controls and the placement of the two screens.
The comments and video information can be found on the VIDDIX platform, on the improved ‘watch’ pages.

We hope you like the update and will get back to you soon with the announcement of new products!

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frankwatching_logo.png

Check out these episodes with CreatAd, YouWish, Battle of Concepts, Dik.nl, Eduhub, Rijschool Network, Myngle, Zomoto and Wuzzon.













We hope you enjoy the show and will keep you posted on new initiatives!

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This opens up news ways of working with VIDDIX professionally. As of today, the functionality is available to all our Business Account users.

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First of all, we created channels for everyone! Your channel can be reached at:

http://www.viddix.com/channel/{username}

We will be adding new features in the coming months to enable you to create great channels.

Your videos will also benefit with the introduction of this update. Not only will it help search engines index your video higher, but your audience can actually make up what kind of video they’ve watched or saved in their bookmarks by looking at the URL.

If you encounter any problems in regards to this new update (or general), please let us know by commenting or using the feedback form.

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Pause Cuepoints

Let us know what you think, comment here or send us your feedback using the form. Thanks!

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