Videos (home, secondary & content blocks)

 

Home video

What is the Home video?

Engage your clients with a touching video and showcase the benefits of your property. This gives the website a modern, fresh and dynamic first impression as the video is autoplayed as soon as the user enters the website.

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See below examples of Home Video and Second Video both active on the Homepage.

 

The video goes together with some video controls, like play/pause and mute/unmute.

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Where can I find the setup of Video?

Go to section “2. Manage content” > “Videos” > "Add Videos". 

There you’ll find the instructions on how to add this video to your website.

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Setting up the Homepage video

1. Open the video and then click on the share button on the right top of the video.

2. Copy and paste in this field the digits from the url - https://vimeo.com/000000000.
For example: 

Go to section “2 Manage content” > “Videos“> “Add Video” > 

3. Copy and paste in this field the digits from the url:

 

Once added the options to edit / view / delete appear on the right side.

Go to section “2. Manage content” > “Videos” > "Select Videos". 

Here you will be able to select the video already added, to be displayed on the homepage or below in the secondary video position lower on the homepage.

 

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Additional information

There are two things hotels can do:

1. The hotel can give us an existing Vimeo PRO video

2. We can create a new one using a mix of generic videos + photos of the property

In each case the video needs to be stored in a Vimeo PRO account (YouTube doesn't work for this). 

You can use your own account Vimeo PRO or can use space in ours for a small fee. 

No extra cost if you host the video in your own Vimeo PRO account.

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Extra services

There are some extra costs applied for these services:

• Creating a video: check price

• Transforming the video to an appropriate optimised format: check price

• Uploading a video to a Vimeo PRO account (video editing not included): check price

• Use of hosting space and streaming bandwidth in Bookassist's Vimeo PRO account: check price per year

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Our recommendations:

• The video should not last longer than one minute. We have metrics highlighting the amount of time the user spends visiting the home page.
• It should try and tell a story.
• It should feature the main facilities and services of the hotel (location, rooms...).

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Some real examples

• https://www.grand-hotel.pl/en/

• https://www.cyeholidaycentre.com/en/

• https://www.grandhotelplaza.com/en/

• https://www.hotelala.it/en/

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Secondary Video

What is the secondary video?

 
This functionality allows you to add a video in your website’s homepage. The position of the video may vary depending on the style selected.

This video is not the one displayed as a background in the top part of the homepage, that is the Home video.

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It is very useful to display a YouTube or Vimeo video on the homepage of your website.

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Where can I find the setup of Video?

Go to section “2. Manage content” > “Videos” > "Add Videos". 

There you’ll find the instructions on how to add this video to your website. 

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Setting up the Second Video

In this section you'll be able to add videos from both Vimeo and YouTube

YouTube videos:

1. Go to YouTube
2. Seach for the desired video and open it
3. Click on the Share button right below the video
4. Select the Embed option
5. From the provided code copy the part highlighted in Bold:src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/00000000000"

Vimeo Videos

1. Go to Vimeo
2. Seach for the desired video and open it
3. Mouse over the video and click on the share button (the one with a paper plane icon)
4. Go to the embed section and copy the part highlighted in bold:src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/00000000"

Go to section “2. Manage content” > “Videos” > "Select Videos". 

See below in the homepage selection the secondary video position can be selected.

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Some real examples

• https://www.ambassador.cz/en/

• https://www.hotelforum.com/en/

• https://www.hoteldepetris.com/en/

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Content blocks video

 

What is the content block video?

This  allows users to easily add Vimeo or youtube video  to the body content of any page. 

Where can I find content block video?

Go to Section “2. Manage Content” > “Menu & Pages” > “Edit” the page where you want to add the Content Blocks.

Find out more about content blocks

Setting up the content block video

 

You have many options for layouts as below. Select any image with the image play icon to get the option to add video in the arrangement shown.

 

Select video 1 dropdown displays the list of videos already added in 

Go to section “2 Manage content” > “Videos“> “Add Video” > 

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Vimeo PRO

How do I upload video to Vimeo PRO?

If you already have your own Vimeo account or wish to manage your own videos, please follow the steps outlined below:

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How do I prepare my video for Vimeo PRO?

Our recommendations:

• The video should not last longer than one minute. We have metrics highlighting the amount of time the user spends visiting the home page.

• It should try and tell a story.

• It should feature the main facilities and services of the hotel (location, rooms...).

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