Help:Fandom Video Player

Featured Videos are shown at the top of select wiki article pages on top FANDOM communities. This is an additional way to provide information to readers.

How the player works
On desktop, Featured Videos display at the top of some article pages on top FANDOM communities. These videos are added by FANDOM staff via a backend process. When you view a Featured Video page in most major markets, the video will automatically play without sound. In all other markets, the video will not autoplay.

You can disable the autoplay option for a short period of time in the Settings menu on the video player. Note that disabling autoplay in one video will apply the same action to all other videos on all other wikis.

When you scroll down the page, the video minimizes into a smaller player in the lower right hand corner of the page. The video can be paused, and the minimized player can be dismissed at any time. Once you scroll back to top, the video will re-appear at the top of the page.



On mobile web pages that have Portable Infoboxes, Featured Videos display within the infobox and remain fixed at the top once you begin to scroll. If the page has a non-Portable Infobox or no infobox at all, the video displays at the top of the page and remains fixed and minimized at the top of the page.



Player options
The Featured Video player provides the following options while viewing a video:
 * A Play/Pause button.
 * A volume bar.
 * A share button. These videos can be shared to Facebook and Twitter. They can also be embedded.
 * A settings button that allows you to disable auto-play for 2 weeks at a time and to change the video quality. It does not display when the video is minimized.
 * A full screen button.

After a video has played for 5 seconds, viewers will also have the option to indicate whether they like ("thumbs up") or dislike ("thumbs down") the video they are watching.

Types of Featured Videos
FANDOM's Featured Video team continues to experiment with the types of Featured Videos that we produce. So far, four key types of Featured Videos are produced:
 * High Production Custom Videos. These are custom videos that the Featured Video team puts extra effort into&mdash;including hosts for the videos, digital effects, voice-over, and more&mdash;for especially high-traffic pages on key communities. These videos spotlight users as authorities on their fandoms. An example of this video is "Will We Ever Visit the Andromeda Galaxy?" for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
 * Templated Video with Voice-Over. These videos follow a basic format that has footage or images about the subject with voice-over. Examples include Newt Scamander and List of spells on Harry Potter Wiki. Some on-screen text may accompany the voice-over.
 * Templated Video with On-Screen Text. Unlike Templated Video with Voice-Over, these videos do not include voice-over but do include on-screen text. One example is Alec Ryder on Mass Effect Wiki.
 * Third Party Videos. These are videos we did not create but have identified as high-quality official videos, like trailers or official gaming videos. Examples include Champion Spotlights on League of Legends Wiki, such as Aatrox.

Featured Videos are primarily made by FANDOM's video producers. The Featured Video team also works with YouTube partners and freelancers to produce or spotlight videos for wiki pages.

At the conclusion of a Featured Video, more Featured Videos will appear in a grid of recommended videos. The first video will autoplay after several seconds. These Play Next videos are chosen and curated by FANDOM's Programming team.

How this benefits communities
Web users are increasingly looking for information in video form. It offers a quick and digestible way to access information in an entertaining way. FANDOM has always been a source of information for fans, and will continue to be so using wiki text in addition to videos.

Additionally, the advertisements placed in front of Featured Videos offers FANDOM the opportunity to improve the ad experience on the site. These ads are of such high value that many of the other smaller advertisements that slow page performance can be removed from the site. The goal is for all wiki pages to have fewer ads, but pages with a Featured Video will have even fewer advertisements than pages without a Featured Video. FANDOM is testing new ad placements to determine what the right new format should be.



Next pages

 * Learn more about videos on FANDOM
 * Learn more about Wiki Modernization and how Featured Videos are used on FANDOM

Further help and feedback
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