How to optimize a Video with content properties

With small exceptions, the optimization of videos follows the same logic as that of articles and galleries.

On this page, you’ll learn the steps to optimizing videos with the content properties in the system.

Optimizing a video

Follow the steps below to learn how to optimize the videos you upload. Here’s how:

From the main navigation, select Videos.

2. When the videos listing screens open, select the video you want to optimize (e.g. “Ronaldo Alves”).

3. Next, open the video and go to the content properties in the right corner of your screen.

There are nine tabs with properties to optimize your video–General, Content offer, Media, Tags, Related content, URLs, SEO, Lists, Custom data.

The General tab lets you select category(ies), author(s), status, distribution regions and channels, as well as additional properties for your video.

To optimize your video’s General tab:

Expand the General tab.

2. Select a main category from the Categories drop-down box.

Remember, selecting a main category is mandatory for creating a video.

3. To add an additional category, select the Additional Categories box.

4. Next, open the Author box, and select the author you wish.

5. If you want to add a custom author, enter the author in the Custom Author box.

6. To set the status of your video, go to the Status box and select from the options Active/Inactive.

7. To select video properties and type, go to Properties and Type and choose from the options.

8. If you want to set a period for your video to be active on your website, enter the desired dates in the Pubslihed From / Pubslihed Until boxes.

9. Select a region for distribution in the Distribution Regions box.

10. Next, go to the Distribution Channels box and select a channel.

11. Lastly, select comment policies for your post in the Comment policies box.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

The Media tab is where you upload your videos and main image for them. The main image serve the role of a thumbnail for your video when it's uploaded to your site.

To optimize your video’s media:

Expand the Media tab.
If you want to upload new main image, select Upload new images.
To upload already existing images in the system as main image(s), select Toggle already uploaded images.

4. Choose Main Media > Embed Video to upload a video to the CMS.

Rember that to a video, you can add an embed or search the Dugout and Onnetwork.tv videos.

Refer to How to create a Video.

Note that once you select an image as main media, you can crop it by selecting Crop image.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

The Content footer tab is the place where you select the origin of the images you use in your video.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

Under the Tags tab, you can optimize a video with a tag you have created, as well as football connections suggested by the system.

To optimize your video with tags:

Expand the Tags tab.

2. In the Tags box, enter a tag(s) you have already created in the system.

3. To tag a video with football connections, go to the Football Connections box and select the recognized entity suggestions you want to tag your video with.

Note that you can tag your video with football connections either by adding all suggestions or only the once you desire.

Once you enter football connections, the system will suggest relevant past/upcoming matches to connect to your video.

4. To add relevant matches, select either the Upcoming matches or Past matches tabs. Then click on the + sign to select a match.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

The Related content tab is directly connected to the football connections you use in the Tags tab and lets you include additional reading/watching to your post.

You can either add suggested videos, galleries, and articles to your post or search yourself for related content.

To add related content to your post:

Expand the Related content tab.

2. Under the Suggestions tab, select a content type you want to add as related content i.e. Articles, Videos, or Galleries.

3. Next, choose an article, video, or gallery and select the + sign to add it as related content.

4. If you want to manually find an article, video, or gallery to add, select the Search tab and enter the title of the content you are looking for.

For more information, see Content properties for specific content titles.

Next: How to create a Gallery.