Customize Player Controls and Personalize Feeds to Enhance User Experience
Get StartedCustomize Player Controls and Personalize Feeds to Enhance User Experience
Standard video platforms deliver the same generic experience to everyone. But every brand is unique, and your audience expects a personalized, purposeful and tailored experience.
Genuin’s Control enables comprehensive, cross-platform management of your video player and the feed experience across web and mobile applications.
How to control the video player
You can tailor the player controls for each environment, allowing separate customization for the web and mobile applications.
- Log in to the Brand Control Center, go to Settings, and click the Player Controls tab.
- Select the feed environment from the dropdown
- Option 1: Web
- Option 2: Mobile App
- Choose the video aspect ratio that will be displayed in the feed.
- 9:16 display: render in a vertical ratio
- Adaptive display: dynamically render based on a video file format
- Enable or disable the video autoplay
- Always: the video automatically plays as soon as it loads.
- Never: the video will not autoplay and require the user to tap to start playback.
- Custom: the video autoplays after a specified number of seconds.
- Choose whether video starts with sound or muted
- Choose the video play in feed
- Video loop: the video continuously plays and repeats in a loop
- Repeat video up to a specified number of times
- Auto swipe: the next video automatically plays according to the autoplay settings and appears in the feed once the current video finishes.
- Enable 2x playback speed: allow users to view the video at 2× playback speed
- Click “Save” to reflect changes across placements
How to control the feed experience
- Log in to the Brand Control Center, go to Settings, and click the Player Controls tab.
- Select the feed environment from the dropdown
- Option 1: Web
- Option 2: Mobile App
- Choose a tab behavior in feeds
- Tap to mute/unmute
- Tap to play/pause
- Choose a linkout display delay
- Custom: the linkout appears after a specified number of seconds delay
- Immediately: the linkout appears as soon as the video starts playing
- Always visible: the linkout displays as soon as the video loads without transition
- Customize linkout button style
- Choose whether to add arrow icon
- Customize the corner radius
- Customize the button color and text color
- Choose in-feed reaction to personalize the user experience
- Spark
- Like
- Thumbs up
- Laugh
- Support
- Custom: contact Genuin support team to integrate a custom icon to the reaction
- Enable to share video caption: allow users to select and share a phrase from the video transcript.
- Choose a linkout redirection (only applicable for the mobile app setting)
- In-app browser: linkout opens within the app
- External browser: linkout opens in the external browser
- Click “Save” to reflect changes across placements