Site Publishers
5min’s Syndication Program offers Site Publishers a one-stop solution for online video: providing a rich, segmented offering of tens of thousands of videos; empowering websites to integrate videos throughout their sites with just a few hours of work; and creating incremental revenue, traffic and engagement.
The 5min Syndication Program Includes:
- Full Access to 5min’s Library of 10,000s of videos– Screened, Filtered & Segmented
- 5min’s Proprietary Smart Player, With Rich Customization Options
- 5min’s Innovative VideoSeed Engine, Matching Relevant Videos to Targeted Audiences
- Simple & Scalable Implementation in Minimum Time
- Incremental Revenue
- Increased Engagement, Traffic and Pageviews
5min Content Library
5min’s vast content library consists of tens of thousands of premium, filtered, short-form Instructional, How-To, Lifestyle and Knowledge videos. 5min features content from some of the world’s largest media companies as well as the most innovative independent producers.
Content is categorized across 20 major categories and over 140 sub-categories: video recipes and meal plans, yoga and fitness routines, tech tutorials, DIY projects for home and garden, health videos detailing specific conditions and treatments, beauty, styling and fashion tips, video game walkthroughs and much, much more.
Content on the 5min platform is reviewed and categorized video by video by our editorial staff. 5min’s library is managed and maintained for quality and accuracy – all content hosted on the 5min platform is screened, filtered and rated accordingly, to ensure that a Syndication Partner only receives content in accordance with its standards, preferences and needs.
Technology
VideoSeed
Website publishers can choose from 3 different seeding options, each fully customizable to best suit your website’s layout, design and overall needs. To see a sampling of 5min’s open-source VideoSeed solutions,
click here.
Smart Player
Syndication Partners enjoy a white label version of 5min’s innovative custom video player, tailor-made for instructional, How-To and knowledge-based content, with superior functionality for an optimal viewing experience. With innovative capabilities geared to create an all-encompassing viewing experience, the Smart Player enables content creators to enrich their content as well as preserve branding through the player’s many customization options. Viewers can zoom-in and out, watch in slow-mo or go frame by frame. In addition, relevant texts, images and links can be added within the player to complement each video. For example, the printable text of recipe can accompany a video recipe.
Check out the Smart Player here!Implementation
Throughout the integration process, an account manager is there to address all of your needs, from vision to scalable and manageable implementation. From helping you select the ideal syndication solution for your website to ensuring the kind and quality of content which you seed to your pages, a 5min account manager is at your side to guide you through a quick and easy implementation process, as well to assist you in finding the most seamless video display for your site.
Website publishers can choose from 3 different seeding options, each fully customizable to best suit your website’s layout, design and overall feel. To see examples of 5min’s open platform VideoSeed tools,
click here.
PlayerSeed analyzes your pages in order to seed only the most relevant single video to each of your pages, featured in a customizable version of the 5min Smart Player.
ThumbSeed enables you to add a customized video thumbnail strip, displaying 5min videos related to the content on your pages. The VideoSeed engine analyzes the text on your site in order to seed only the most relevant videos to your pages.
DeepSeed allows you to instantly add dynamic content pages featuring 5min video to your website, building actual new pages within your site.
API
5min’s API enables you to integrate 5min’s video content, display and functionality into your website. The
API is a very simple interface to access lots of data from 5min. You can get data in XML format and videos are displayed according to MRSS scheme.
Widgets
Feature videos from 5min’s extensive how-to library directly on your site, with a 5min
video widget. Now you have with the ability to customize the selection and display of content on your pages, while maintaining a consistent look and feel to your site with 5min’s
video widgets.
Choose to display content selected by 5min’s Editorial Team, or create a Custom playlist with Your Picks.
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Editor’s Pick of the Day:
With 5min’s library and editorial resources, you get a high-quality content offering, featuring thousands of high-quality how-to’s, hand-picked by 5min’s editorial team in order to bring you the best of the 5min library.
You get the best of 5min’s comprehensive library, providing your audience with videos that will keep them engaged and coming back for more!
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Your Picks - Custom Playlist:
5min’s Your Picks is a Custom Playlist provides completely flexibility to choose which content is displayed on your site.
Revenue
As a Syndication Partner, you earn a share of the revenue from in-stream advertising run in the Smart Player on your site. We run pre-rolls, mid-rolls, post-rolls, overlays, title cards and other emerging video units. 5min can sell all the inventory or the Site Publisher can sell some or all of the inventory, and we share the revenue. In the event that the Site Publisher chooses to sell the video inventory we can integrate with your ad server to enable you to traffic the campaigns or we can serve the creative.