Introduction

An active presence on social media platforms is vital for a company's growth. It connects an organization with potential customers, creates brand awareness, and boosts overall traffic on your sites. Sharing content can increase your public outreach by a substantial margin.  


To utilize the advantages of sharing, VIDIZMO users can share their Portal content on social media platforms or refer it to others using email. Portal owners can also configure and control sharing options of media content on their portals.


Prerequisites

  • Your Portal must have Media Sharing enabled. To learn how to do so, visit How to Configure Social Media Sharing in Portal.
  • If Media Sharing is enabled, a Moderator+ user can share files on social media platforms or via email by default. Viewers or Contributors can share media if they're members of a Group where "Allow Users to Share Media" is enabled. Learn about group settings here: Efficient Access Rights Management with User Groups.
  • Ensure that “Allow Sharing” is enabled on the media file you want to share. Its access settings should be set to "Anonymous Viewers" so that the audience on social media platforms can view the content. Read about configuring Media Settings here: Understanding Media Settings.


Sharing from the Portal's Homepage

You can share media files directly from your Portal's Homepage.

  1. Navigate to your Portal’s Homepage. If you're on any other page, clicking the icon on the action menu will redirect you to the Homepage.
  2. Select Share from the overflow menu of the media you want to share.


3. On the Share window, write the recipient's email in the Email Address section. You can add multiple email addresses in the text area, provided a comma separates them.

4. Click the Refer button to share the media via email.

5. You can also share by email using the Mail icon. This option will open the default mailing application on your computer.

6. Share the media file on a social media platform from the rest of the icons. You can share on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter by clicking their icon.





     



Sharing from the Playback Page

A media file's playback page has options for sharing as well.

  1. Click the thumbnail of the media file to go to its playback page.


      2. On the playback page, click the Share icon to display all the options for sharing.



You can also enable an interactive thumbnail of your media file when it's shared as an email attachment, social media post, or sent in a private message. The "Enable Interactive Social Media Sharing" option in Portal Settings will convert shared links into an interactive thumbnail.  


To enable this option, visit How to Enable Interactive Social Media Sharing for your VIDIZMO Portal’s Content.