Assets & Packages

Assets and packages is how you protect and sell your digital content.

Paid assets

With Paid assets customers will access the content by registering an account and making a payment.

Creating the asset

Log into your InPlayer Dashboard and go to the Content section.

In the Assets tab, click on New asset, and then on Custom creation.

Enter a Name for your asset. This will be the name of the asset in your InPlayer Dashboard. The customers won’t see this.

Select Video or HTML depending on the type of content you are going to protect with the asset.

Video
Use this if your content are videos that are hosted on one of the following platforms:

You can have only one video per Video asset.

HTML
Use this if your content are videos that are hosted anywhere other than the above-mentioned platforms, or for non-video content.
HTML is a universal asset and can be used for monetizing absolutely anything.

You can put as much content as you want in a single HTML asset, but we would still recommend sticking to only one piece of content per asset.

Once you select your asset type, click Next.

Under Select content category choose one of the following:

  • Live – for video content that will be livestreamed. This includes live streams where you plan on publishing a VOD replay afterwards.
  • VOD – for Video-on-demand-only content that isn’t going to be live streamed.
  • Other – for content other than video, or for test assets.

Click Next.

Under Select access type, choose Registration, then Paid and click Next.

If you are creating a Video asset hover over the platform where your videos are hosted, select one of the following, and click Next.

  • add one video – This creates a regular asset where you can add your video. You can select which video to use in the asset settings.
  • quick add – This creates an asset for a video and copies the title, description, and preview image for that video from Brightcove. You can select the video right now.
  • sync all videos – With this, you can create assets for all videos in your account at once. Each video is created as a separate asset. (not available for some platforms)

If you are creating an HTML asset you will automatically skip the above step.

On the new page, you can set up your asset’s properties.

The right side of the screen is where you can set everything up, and the left side provides a preview where you can see how the various sections of the assets will look on your webpage.

Preview

In the Preview section, set up the preview title, description, and thumbnail as well as the text for the BUY button. These will be the details that will appear on the actual asset preview when you embed it on your webpage.

Note that the Title will also appear on the final payment form on the paywall, as well as the notification email your customers will receive.

After setting everything up, make sure to click the Save button in the bottom right corner.

Preview templates

In the Preview templates section, you can choose how the asset will appear when you embed it on your webpage.

You can go with the default preview, or select one from the list.

If you’ve set up a default branding theme in your dashboard Settings, where you’ve selected a default preview template, and you want to use that template for this asset as well, make sure to check the Use preview template from the default branding theme option.

If, however, you wish to use a separate preview template for this asset, despite the fact that you have set up a default one in your branding theme, make sure to leave the Use preview template from the default branding theme option unchecked.

When choosing your preview template, you can click on the View fullscreen button at the top left to see how that template would look on various screen sizes.

After setting everything up, make sure to click the Save button in the bottom right corner.

Preview default branding theme

If you have set up a default branding theme in the Settings (more on this here), you can see how the asset will look like once the theme will be applied to it.

To do this, just click the Preview default branding theme toggle.

Price options

You can set up three different pricing types:

  • ppv –  the customer makes a one-time payment and gets access for a limited time,
  • subscription – the customer accepts a recurrent charge at regular intervals that can be canceled at any time,
  • season – the customer makes a payment and gets access for a limited period, but at the same time accepts a recurrent charge for being able to watch during the next period. The date for the upcoming charge is determined by the merchant.

Note that the season price type needs to be activated on your account by our team, so make sure to contact us at clients@inplayer.com for this.


Setting up a PPV price

Setting up a Subscription price

Setting up a Season price

Deleting a price option

Deleting a price option from an asset will make that price option unavailable for new purchases. Any customers that have already purchased it will keep their access, and won’t be affected by this change.

To delete a price option, simply click the bin icon to the right of it.

Content

In the Content section, enter the content you wish to monetize depending on the type of asset you’ve created (HTML or Video). See the list below for help in doing this.

HTML

Amazon Cloudfront

Brightcove

Cloudflare

DaCast

Flowplayer

JW Player

Kaltura

Kaltura Mediaspace

Livestream

Ooyala

Panopto

Qbirck

Vidyard

Wowza

Wistia

Changing the asset content type

If you’ve created an HTML asset, and now you wish to change it to a Video asset, or vice versa, you can do so by clicking the Change content type button.

Content details

Here you will find the selection you have made in the Select content category step during the first steps of the asset creation.

If the Content category is VOD or Other, no further setup is needed here.

If the Content category is Live, make sure to fill in all the details about your live event. This info will be sent to our support team and will make sure your customers get the best support possible.

It is very important to always fill in the event details here. This is one of the reasons why InPlayer can provide such high quality of customer support.

After your live event ends and you have published your VOD replay for it, make sure not to change the Content category from Live to VOD. There is no need for this.


You also have the option to have your event advertised on our Client Events page. If you choose to do so, just enter the text you want to appear in your event post description. It’s a good idea to include the webpage where your event can be found in the post.
After you save, our webpage administrators will review the post and publish it. This might take up to 24 hours.

After setting everything up, make sure to click the Save button in the bottom right corner.

Restrictions

In the Restrictions section, you can set up any geographic, URL, and/or age restrictions for the asset you wish to use.

Geo-restrictions make the asset available only in certain countries, URL restrictions make it embeddable on only certain URLs, and Age restrictions make it accessible by only customers who fall under a certain age group.

You can learn more about setting up the restrictions here, here and here.

Remember that any restrictions you set up in the individual assets will overwrite the ones that have been set up in the dashboard Settings.
After setting everything up, make sure to click the Save button in the bottom right corner.

Additional metadata

Here, you can add additional metadata to your asset, which can be used for various purposes. An example would be to add metadata that will group the assets in different categories that you can later use in a filter you have developed for your webpage.

Embedding the asset

Once you’ve created your asset, it’s time to embed it on your website.
For this, click on the Get asset embed code button at the top right.

A pop-up with the embed codes will appear.

Here, you can set up the following settings:

  • Branding theme
    Select the branding theme you wish to use for the asset.
    Note that this option will only be available if you’ve already created a branding theme. Read this article for a guide on how to do this.
    If you do not select a branding theme here, the default theme will be applied.
  • OAuth app
    Select whether to use a custom OAuth app for the asset. This feature will group customers that register an account on this asset into one user group.
    This is useful if you have multiple websites and you want to group customers from each website into a separate group.
    Read this article to learn more about the OAuth feature.
  • Preselected price
    Select whether you want to have one of the asset prices be pre-selected when a customer clicks the BUY button.
    This is very useful if you wish to attach the same asset to different buttons on your webpage that are meant to represent the different prices. Whenever a customer clicks on one button on the webpage, they will automatically be forwarded to the final payment screen for that option.
  • Paywall version
    Select whether to use the Paywall V2 or Paywall V3 for the asset.
    These are the two versions of our paywall.
    We recommend always using Paywall V3 because it is the most up-to-date version.

Once everything is set up, copy the InPlayer Script code and paste it into the <head> section of your webpage.

Then copy the Embed code and paste it into the <body> section of your webpage.

With that, your asset will appear on your page, and you are ready to start monetizing your content.

Advanced embedding

With advanced embedding, you can configure some additional asset settings that are not available with the standard embed code.

To get the advanced embed code, click on Advanced embedding in the asset embed code screen.

The advanced embedding screen has two tabs, Per page and Per asset.

Per page give you an embed code that will affect all assets on the page where you put that code.

Per asset gives you an embed code that only affects the particular asset you have opened in the InPlayer Dashboard.

Once you configure the settings, click on Get asset embed code to get the embed code.

Embedding multiple assets

If you wish to have multiple assets on the same page, it is not very advisable that you just take the embed codes for all assets you wish to use and put them into the body of the web-page as-is. Instead, use the code below.

Get code.

Viewing asset analytics

To view some useful analytics for the asset, you can click the View asset analytics button at the top right.

Deactivating an asset

To deactivate an asset, just open it and click the  button at the top right.

You can always bring a deactivated asset back by going to the Assets tab, selecting deactivated from the drop-down menu next to the search field, and clicking the Reactivate asset button on the asset you want to bring back.

When you go back to the active assets list, you will find the asset there.

That concludes our guide.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at clients@inplayer.com.