BitView on Your Site

Whatever presence you have on the Internet—a large website, a blog, a social network page, or pretty much anything else—there are many ways to integrate BitView into it. From simple video embeds to our full-powered APIs, you can integrate video at all levels of technical expertise.

Bringing BitView to your site is more than just adding some of the thousands of videos available on BitView. It keeps your visitors interested and allows self-expression and interaction with one of their favorite services. And it brings your site, blog, or page into the BitView video community — an international network of users, creators, and sites connected through a huge collection of online videos.

We've highlighted some typical ways of integrating video content below — just click the arrow next to the question to get the answer. If you have any questions or suggestions, or projects that you would like us to know about, please leave the questions in our Discord server.

The Basics

How do I add a video to my blog or web page?

  1. You'll need to edit the HTML of your blog entry or page—this should be relatively straightforward. In Blogger, for example, just click the "Edit HTML" tab.
  2. Next, go to the video that you want, and look for the 'Embed' box in the "About This Video" section. Copying the HTML code that's there into your website will create an embedded player; the video will play within your site when the user clicks on the 'Play' button.
  3. You can resize the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code. Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height.

How do I add a video to my social network page?

Adding videos to your profiles on social networks like SpaceHey is a great way to share your videos or favorites with friends. Or, if you're promoting something (like your band) on SpaceHey, videos will help attract visitors to your page, who can then then share the link with their friends. The social network sites have similar ways to add videos, so we'll use SpaceHey as an example.

  1. Sign in to your SpaceHey profile, then click the "Edit Profile" button.
  2. Next, go to the video that you want, and look for the 'Embed' box in the "About This Video" section. Copying the HTML code that's there into your website will create an embedded player.
  3. You can resize the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code. Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height.
  4. Click "Preview", and then "Submit".

APIs and User Engagement

I work for a large blog/web company. How can video increase user engagement on our site?

Video is much more engaging than text. It draws more users and keeps them on your site for longer. BitView has a large repository of Internet video content along with the search, playback and API tools to make adding video easier for you.

When looking to increase engagement, try using video as a way to start discussion or make a commentary by creating more context for your users:

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We have a site and we have our own videos. Can we post these on our site using BitView?

It's very easy to build out your own site with your own videos for free. All you need to do is upload the videos to BitView first. There's no charge and we will cover hosting and streaming costs. It's not only a great way to increase user engagement on your site, but it's very easy, and free as well.

Once you have uploaded the videos you can pull them back to the site:

Embed videos one-by-one: Go to the video that you want to put on your website, and look for the 'Embed' box next to the video player. Copying the HTML code that's there into your blog will create an embedded player; the video will play within your site when the user clicks on the 'Play' button.