Videos

Article Topics: Ad Tools

The Videos Ad Tool type lets you upload videos of your choosing in order to help affiliates promote your site. After uploading your video, NATS will automatically provide fellows with a tracking link for your video, as well as a download link.

In order to help program owners and affiliates get their ad tools as organized as possible in NATS, we split up the Video ad tools into three separate categories. These categories are:

• Downloadable Videos - Sample videos available for download by your affiliates to be used in their promotions.

• Embedded Videos - Sample videos embedded into your tour pages, to be streamed by your surfers.

• Hosted Videos - Sample videos hosted on your servers, to be downloaded by your surfers.

Uploading a Video

You can upload new videos of any type through the Ad Tools Admin, so your affiliates can use them to promote your sites. Just go to the Ad Tools Admin and click the "Content" Ad Tool Categories where you'll find the three options to choose from; Downloadable Videos, Embedded Videos, or Hosted Videos.

You can then click the "+" in the Count column of the Video type to create a new ad tool.

Use the "Video URL" field here to enter a URL pointing to the video that you want to upload to NATS. You can also add a thumbnail image for the video you're uploading with the "Thumbnail URL" field.

After adding a URL pointing to your video, as well as a corresponding thumbnail image, you can go ahead and define the other settings for your video available here. The settings available here are:

• Name - Enter a video name for your affiliates to see.

• Video URL - Enter the URL for the video you are uploading here.

• Type - Choose whether this video is a Trailer, 30 Second Video, 2 Minute Video, or 5 Minute Video.

• Thumbnail URL (Optional) - Enter a URL for your video's thumbnail preview image here.

• Description (Optional) - Input a description of your video for your affiliates to see.

• Tags (Optional) - Tag your uploaded content with a category of your choosing.

• Embed Tag (Optional) - Only available for Embedded Videos. Choose whether you want to show your video through Flowplayer, iFrame, or a video embedded into the page.

• Enabled on - Choose a site (or all sites) that you want this video to be available for.

• Publish Date - Input what date you want this video to be available from.

• Default Group - Select an adtool group to categorize this video under.

Click "Add Adtool" once you finish defining all of the required fields to add your new Video to NATS.

Your new Video will now appear in the "Video Download/Embed/Hosted Adtool" table, along with the other available videos. You'll find the ad tool ID number of each video here, as well as each video's URL, type, and default group here.

Displaying a Video

Before you can include your new Video on one of your sites, you must first add a "SHOW" rule. To do so, click on the "Add a new rule" action icon next to your new video. On the next page, simply add a "SHOW" rule type for the affiliate(s), program(s), and site(s) you want this video to be enabled for. You can also choose to enable this video for all affiliates, programs, and sites.

For more information on rules in NATS, please see our Rules article.

Once you create a "SHOW" rule for your new video, affiliates will be able to grab the linkcode for that video through their Ad Tools page.