Use Playlists

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Playlists give you more control over how you present your content to your audience. You can display saved videos to your audience in a format that is sequential or grouped by topic. 

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How Playlists Work

You can create a playlist from one or more saved videos. Playlists are embedded in a web page the same way you would embed a video from Resi.

Embedded playlists default to display the first video in the playlist. Users can click the playlist icon in the upper right corner of the video player to view all the videos in the playlist. Users can also click the Next icon to skip ahead to the next video in the playlist.

Playlists can include a maximum of 100 videos. We recommend that you group videos into playlists by topic, series, or by a limited date range. Playlists with a large number of videos may be difficult for your viewers to navigate by requiring an excessive amount of scrolling to find content. (You can also embed more than one playlist in a page.)

The thumbnail image viewers will see is the thumbnail image for the first video in the playlist.  


Create a Playlist

  1. In Studio, navigate to the Media > Playlists page.
  2. Click the  + Add Playlist button in the upper right.

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  1. Provide a name for the playlist (this is displayed in Studio, but not to your viewers), then click Next.
  2. Select the videos you want to include in your playlist, then click Add Playlist.
  3. Studio will load a page displaying your playlist. The videos will be displayed on the right side of the page, the selected video on the left.

Edit a Playlist

Change the order of videos in a playlist

  1. Navigate to the Playlists page in Studio.
  2. Click the playlist you want to edit.
  3. Click and drag the videos in the order you’d like.

Change the name of a playlist.

  1. Navigate to the Playlists page in Studio.
  2. Click the playlist you want to edit.
  3. Click the actions icon image6.png> Edit Playlist Title.

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  1. Provide a title for the playlist, then click Save.

Add a video to a playlist

You can add videos to a playlist from the playlist page, or from the Saved Videos tab in the Library.

From a playlist

  1. Navigate to the Playlists page in Studio.
  2. Click the playlist you want to edit.
  3. Click the + Add Video button in the upper right corner of the page.
  4. Select the video(s) you want to add, then click Save.

From the Library tab

  1. Navigate to the Library tab in Studio.
  2. Click the actions icon below the video you want to add.
  3. Click Save to Playlist.

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  1. Select an existing playlist or create a new one.
  2. Click Save.

Embed or Share a Playlist

You can embed playlists using the same method you would embed a video with Resi. Playlists can be embedded using an iFrame, embed ID, or script tag.

  1. Navigate to the Playlists page in Studio.
  2. Click the playlist you want to embed.
  3. Click the share icon image7.png.

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  1. Copy the embed code or embed ID and paste it into your website.

Delete a Playlist

  1. Navigate to the Playlists page in Studio.
  2. Click the playlist you want to delete.
  3. Click the actions icon > Remove Playlist.
  4. In the modal that appears, confirm that you want to remove the playlist.

Playlists do not remember where a viewer left off. If they leave or refresh the page, the playlist will display the first video in the playlist.

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