Content Partners
The 5min platform was developed to efficiently distribute broadband instructional, how-to, lifestyle, and educational content. The 5min Content Partnership Program reaches millions of unique visitors a month across the largest comprehensive informational sites, well-known lifestyle properties, and sites focused exclusively on niche sub-verticals. 5min provides a unique opportunity to distribute your content to sought-after, but previously fragmented audiences. Through 5min, Content Partners can reach get their content in front of tens of millions of targeted, unique viewers a month.
Joining the 5min Content Partnership Program is quick, easy, and provides significant benefits:
- Free Smart Player & Hosting Solution for Video Content
- Take 5min’s Smart Player with You – Fully Embeddable & Customizable
- Contextual Distribution Across the 5min Network, Reaching Millions of Unique Users
- Increased exposure, views and revenue for your content
5min Offers You:
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Contextual Distribution
Distributing your content through 5min grants a Partners that guarantees access to the largest and far-reaching relevant audiences online. Every site that partners with 5min is a potential venue to host your content contextually on a per page basis.
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Smart Player & Hosting
5min provides you with a state of the art player designed especially for instructional and how-to content, where a video is not only a video, but an enhanced educational experience. 5min’s proprietary Smart Player was designed with how-to content in mind, allowing you to take full advantage of its package of unique features in order to provide superior presentation, engagement, and exposure. 5min offers free hosting and streaming as part of its platform.
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Video Metadata Optimization
5min has the best in class individual video SEO treatment. Your exposure and brand awareness will be promoted in organic search results through 5min’s platform. By employing human resources in optimizing your metadata, implementing 5min’s expertise across many niches and understanding the way SEO works, your content benefits from the best possible SEO foundations, together with branding optimization options throughout the platform – on your 5min Studio, links created and placed within the player and/or your individual videos, and visible brand promotion in our Smart Player mode.
Upload to 5min
Content providers may choose one of several methods of delivering content to the 5min platform:
- Uploading files directly through the 5min upload user interface
- Uploading content to a secure FTP
- Delivery via Fed-Ex
- A Media RSS feed
- Launching through our partner TubeMogul
For more information on what file formats are supported and our best practices for content delivery, please consult our
Content Delivery & Ingestion Overview.
How to Upload:
In order to upload your videos to 5min, you will first need to sign up. After you've joined, log in and click on the "Upload" tab at the top of the page. Choose the video file which you wish to upload, and begin to publish your videos on the 5min platform.
While your video is uploading, you can move on to the next step – adding metadata to your video - a title, a description, and tags, as well as selecting the appropriate category for your video.
Once your files have been uploaded successfully, you can utilize the Smart Player’s innovative features to add images, additional text guides, and links to be displayed within your videos – these features will accompany your videos when they are viewed on 5min, syndicated via our distribution partners and embedded across the web.
5min’s Smart Player
Along with hosting for videos, content providers get a fully-customizable version of 5min’s proprietary Smart Player, designed especially for enhanced viewing of instructional content. Content creators can now turn any how-to video into a bona-fide educational experience for viewers, using the Smart Player’s innovative features to promote their brand while providing audiences with an added value.
CMS & Reporting
5min offers Content Partners an advanced Content Management System, giving you control over your content, as well as up-to-the-minute reporting and statistics for your videos, to help you assess their performance and track your content across 5min’s vast syndication network, documenting both on-site and off-site views of your content.
As a 5min Content Partner, you can log in and enter the “My Account” area in order to view real-time reports and statistics, manage your account information and individual videos, and control what kind of notifications and communications you receive through 5min.