Announcing PDK 4.2, the Social Media Player

Our new Player Development Kit (PDK) 4.2, the social media player, provides new features to engage your audience, new tools to distinguish your player, and new methods to ensure business policy consistency across the web.

Engage your audience with social media

Share specific clips with your friends. Just drag the slider bars to define the start and end point of the video that you want to share, and you have created a clip that can be passed along.

We’ve also added features to share video out to social media sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Windows Live, Yahoo! Buzz, and VodPod. You can even add new ones.


Easily create clips by selecting start and end times

Customize even more elements of your player

We’ve added new ways to distinguish your player with more customization options for layout, navigation, and interaction:

  • Group menu items into submenus to clean up navigation
  • Move menu items around to right, left, top, bottom, or float them
  • Define different layouts for in-player vs. full-screen mode
  • Create custom cards for third-party applications and build your own forms or integration
  • Add your own tabs for quick movement between the cards
  • Customize any button or icon
  • Use new CAPTCHA controls for more reliable form submissions
  • Set closed-captioning as a floating control
  • Resize the video with new scaling options to resize, fit, or stretch videos inside the player region


Customize all aspects of the navigation

Ensure consistency of shared content

Finally, along with the improved audience engagement features and new tools for distinguishing players, PDK 4.2 also provides features for ensuring consistency across the social media sharing world including:

  • Inclusion of advertising and business policies with any content shared with PDK players, whether it is a full video or just a clip
  • Complete control over the embedded player layout to ensure consistency with your brand while allowing more flexibility in shared spaces
  • Consistent Twitter sharing with built-in support for hash tags and short URLs

Check out the features of PDK 4.2 today. To take advantage of our PDK for the first time, contact sales@thePlatform.com for a trial account with thePlatform. For existing customers, visit the Technical Resource Center or contact your Account Manager today for more information.

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