Distribute your Video Content

How to Distribute your Video Content Tutorial

Hi, I’m Karl. Welcome to our how-to series of video tutorials. This session covers how to distribute your video content.

Today we’re going to look at how to distribute, or how to get your message out there. So on the top menu bar, go to ‘distribution’, and here you’ve got a number of options. You can either send it out by SMS, email, QR codes. You can also manage your existing templates that you’ve set up previously. So today, we’re just going to look at sending an SMS with a landing page. So, go across here to ‘SMS message’. Click on that. What that does, you got your step-by-step process here, tells you where you are in the whole process.

You simply need to select the landing page that you want to match up with the video. So, I’m gonna click that landing page. We’ve set this up before. The video that you want to go with that landing page. And then here, again, whenever you see these little eyes, if you hover over them, it will tell you exactly what that is. So you do have the option here to enable video security. So if we just have a quick look at this, you’re able to hide the URL, you can stop it from being shared on social media. You can require the user to put a password in and limit it to the number of views. So any number of options there that you can go through, depending on you want, and depending how secure you need this message to be.

So I’ve selected our landing page. We’ve selected our video. Then we click on next. Step two here, we need to choose a sender ID. Now what this tends to be is the company name, or something that your customers or your staff will recognise. So, simply enter in your company name here. And then here, this is the actual SMS message that people will see on their phone. The important thing here is to say hi, and then you can have a field that you insert. “Hi, John.” Simply type in your message here, something like, “We’re doing a video demo. Maybe you’ll like it.” And there we go. View it here. What we also need to do here, is put in a reference to the video link. So a great way to put it here is to go tap, insert video link. It will insert the video that we attached in the previous screen. Now what I always recommend people do is you send a test to yourself. So here, you can type in your own number. Or anyone else in the team that you want to see it, and simply hit, send test. That will then come to your phone, you can look at it, change things as you need to coming back here. Once you’re happy with what your sender ID is, the message that you’ve got here, click on the ‘next’ button, and then here you choose who you’re sending it to.

So I’ve selected our landing page. We’ve selected our video. Then we click on next. Step two here, we need to choose a sender ID. Now what this tends to be is the company name, or something that your customers or your staff will recognise. So, simply enter in your company name here. And then here, this is the actual SMS message that people will see on their phone. The important thing here is to say hi, and then you can have a field that you insert. “Hi, John.” Simply type in your message here, something like, “We’re doing a video demo. Maybe you’ll like it.” And there we go. View it here. What we also need to do here, is put in a reference to the video link. So a great way to put it here is to go tap, insert video link. It will insert the video that we attached in the previous screen. Now what I always recommend people do is you send a test to yourself. So here, you can type in your own number. Or anyone else in the team that you want to see it, and simply hit, send test. That will then come to your phone, you can look at it, change things as you need to coming back here. Once you’re happy with what your sender ID is, the message that you’ve got here, click on the ‘next’ button, and then here you choose who you’re sending it to.