Metadata

Increase your video SEO and the efficiency of your video management by adding metadata to your mediaclips. 

1.0 | Add metadata

• Navigate to the “Media Library”
• Select the video and edit the metadata in the “Metadata” tab:

• • Enter a title
    • A maximum of 50 characters is allowed.
    • Consider putting the most important keyword at the beginning of your title to improve your video SEO.
  • Add a description
    • A maximum of 300 characters is allowed.
    • Consider using the most important and relevant keywords in the description to improve your video SEO.
    • The description field accepts simple HTML tages, e.g. <a>, <i> and <u>.

• • Add an author (when applicable)
    • Google displays the author in the search results.
  • Deep link
    Enter the URL of the page you want the video to be indexed on by search engines. This URL will also be selected when viewers click the share button on the control bar (provided that sharing is enabled in the playout settings).
    Tip:

    When you embed a video on your own website, we recommend using the page URL where the video is placed as deep link URL.

• • Add tags
    Consider adding tags with the most important keywords. Add new tags entirely or use the dropdown menu to select one of the tags that are already used in other clips
    Tip:

    You can add a “standard tag”, so mediaclips are automatically added to a playlist. For example: add a “video sitemap” tag to every video and create a playlist that contains all videos with the “video sitemap” tag. Learn more about playlists.

  • Disable commercials
    The Online Video Platform offers numerous opportunities to maximize earnings from video advertisements. However, some (sensitive) video content might not be suitable to be accompanied by advertisement. Select this option to avoid ads/commercials from playing at the start, during or at the end of this mediaclip (only when advertising is enabled in the playout settings).

2.0 | Custom fields

Some videos might require extra metadata fields, for example: “category”, “purpose”, “account manager” or “marketing director”.

Only users with admin permissions are able to access the “Custom Fields” section (learn more about roles and permissions).

To add a custom field:

• Go to publication settings by clicking the gear icon on the top right.
• Select “Custom Fields” in the left menu panel to add or edit a custom field.
  Note:

  The Custom Fields section might not be enabled by default. If you have admin permissions, but are unable to access the custom fields section, please contact your account manager or support@bluebillywig.com

• Customize the following settings:
  • Label: the name of your metadata field.
  • Code: the “code” value will be filled automatically. We recommend leaving this unchanged.
  • Public: custom fields and their values will be set to “private” by default. Set to “public” if the custom metadata field should be publicly visible.
  • Mandatory: make this field required before a mediaclip can be saved/published.
  • Visible (advanced use only): make this field visible in the OVP clip interface. When invisible, the value can only be edited
  • Type: select the input field type:

• • • Text field
      Add an additional short descriptive label:
    • Number
      Add a single number to your clip metadata:
    • Text area
      Add a longer descriptive text about the video content:
    • Rich text
      Add “rich text” to your video content containing simple HTML styling. When the clip metadata is displayed on your website, the specific styling of your page will be applied to the HTML formatted text.
      Use the style editor to add:
      • Text hierarchy (<h1>, <h2>, <h3> or <p>)
      • Emphasis (bold <b> and italicized <i>)
      • Hyperlinks
      • Numbered or bulleted lists (<ol> or <ul>)
      • Block quote (<blockquote>)
    • Checkbox
      Add a checkbox that OVP users can check and uncheck (for example: “Use as showcase ✅”)
    • List (dropdown menu)
      Add a dropdown menu with a list of options. The dropdown menu can be set with a predetermined or expandable list. When using an expandable list, OVP users can add options themselves. Predetermined lists cannot be changed in the clip metadata itself.
    • Relation (advanced use only)
      Add a related item using the clip selector. For specific use cases only.
    • Date
      Add a date picker:
    • Color (advanced use only)
      Add a HEX color picker. Example use case: your page’s styling inspects the HEX color associated with the clip to determine the styling of certain HTML elements.
• Save your settings to add the custom metadata field to your media clips.