You signed up for a Qiwio account—that's fantastic news! Here's how to dive right in, and use Qiwio to grow your business.
What is Qiwio?
Qiwio is a video hosting and analytics company with tons under the surface. With Qiwio you can upload your content to the web, make it your own, and track how every viewer is engaging with it and convert viewers into customers to grow your business. We give you the power to understand how video is working for your business, and how to make it work even harder.
To get the most out of your Qiwio experience, we made this quick start guide. We’ll walk through uploading your first video, customizing it, sharing it with the world (or a few coworkers), and viewing the stats for the first time.
Upload a Video
To get started using Qiwio, you’ll need to upload a video.
When you’re exporting your video from your editing program, be sure to use our recommended export settings. This reduces the chance of any problems after you’ve uploaded the video.
In Qiwio, your videos live inside campaigns. Think of campaigns like folders on your computer: you can have as many as you need, and each one can contain one or more videos.
To upload a video, head into any of your already created campaigns (or create a new one if you’d like!). Within that campaign, select the Upload Button.
When you upload a video, it will take a few moments to be ready for you to watch or customize. That’s because we’re busily creating several versions of your video in different resolutions, so that your viewers can get the best possible quality that their connection can handle without buffering.
We won’t make you wait until all of those versions are complete, though once some versions are ready, you’ll be able to go ahead and start customizing. We’ll keep working in the background.
For more on uploading, visit our uploading help page.
Next up: customizing your video!
Managing your Qiwio Videos
Videos in your Qiwio account are organized into campaigns. Campaigns are like folders on your computer. Instead of organizing your files, they help you organize all of your videos! When you upload a video to your Qiwio account, you’ll choose to upload it into a specific campaign. Campaigns can be organized in any way you’d like! They can contain onboarding videos for different roles at your company, sales videos about a new product, a video series you want to share.
Customize It
Next up, you’ll want to make that video all your own by customizing it!
After you’ve uploaded your first video, you’ll land on the video page within Qiwio. From here we can see lots of things, like Customize options, Share options, and Stats.
Customizing your video makes it your own — one of the best ways to do that is by matching the player color to your brand. You can gate your content with video forms to attract more leads through video.
From the video page in your account, select Customize. This will open up the Customize panel, where you can customize the player to your liking. We recommend just diving head first, and exploring things, but if you need some guidance:
- Change the player color
- Gate your content with video forms
- Add CTA buttons
- Add Questions
- Create fully interactive videos with video funnels!
There’s lots to do in the Customize panel, so check it out, and hop on in.
Share It
It’s now time to take your customized video and show it off to the world! When it comes to sharing your videos with your audience, we’ve got many ways to help!
To start things off, here are two common ways to share video!
Embedding
Embedding the video to your site? No problem! We’ve designed this process to be simple for you. To generate an embed code for any video, head to your Share tab, select your embed code, and copy the code!
If you want your videos to autoplay without sound when someone visits your website, then just toggle on the autoplay toggle above the embed code before copying!
Tip!
After embedding your videos on your website, if you make changes to your customization such as adding a form, changing a question etc, no need to re-embed the code, Qiwio automatically pushes the changes to everywhere the video has been embedded. Magic right!
For an in-depth walk-through on embedding medias, check out our embedding page.
Publish to Social Media
If you’re looking to get your brand out there, then publishing to Social Media is definitely for you! Right from within your Qiwio account, you can publish videos directly to YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Connect them in your integrations page, and you’re good to go.
Then head on over to a video you’d like to publish, and share that beautiful content with the world!
Check out our Publish to Social Media page for the full details.
See the Stats
Qiwio stats are the best way to get a complete view of who is engaging with your videos and how they are interacting with it.
You can find stats related to a single video on the video page, you can also find stats related to a single campaign on the campaign page, or if you want to see account wide stats, head over to the stats section (3rd icon down on the left sidebar).