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Remove the reEmbed watermark that appears at the start of a video and give a personilized touch to your content. In order to remove the watermark you have to become a premium user, however, this means you get access to more awesome features like broken video notifications and custom sharing links!

For a limited time, you can get acces to these (and more!) features by grabbing the exclusive Earlybird offer. For only $20 per month, subscribers of the Earlybird package will have access to any premium feature we offer and any premium feature we will introduce in the future, regardless of which price package it belongs to.

reEmbed allows you to create a video player that suits your needs, so you can build the perfect user environment. However, have you imagined the possibilities of creating and using many different players?

You could use a different player for every section of your site, obtaining seperate statistics and impressions for each player or even use your players accross many, different websites. Everything is easy and tailored to your needs with the Unlimited Players premium feature.

Premium? That means I have to spend money, right? Yes it does, but it provides you with a palette of unique features that you need in order to take your site to the next level, including the creation of unlimited players.

But we have a special offer for you! For only $20 per month, subscribers of the Earlybird package will have access to any premium feature we offer, unlimited players and any premium feature we will introduce in the future, regardless of which price package it belongs to.

Undoubtedly, a huge amount of time people spend on the internet is on social media. Hence, keeping in touch with your social media has never been more important. 

However, when it comes to video, social media sites fail to provide you with adequate, real-time statistics. For this reason, we have added Facebook and Twitter video support for the reEmbed Player.

But there is more! Forget the ugly, pre-selected, social media player that doesn’t match with your website. With reembed you can customize the looks and feel of your player within a few seconds.

Simply create your own player at www.reEmbed.com and start embeding social media videos right now!

One of the core things that every site owner keeps in mind is that sharing is crucial to a website’s development. After all, through sharing in social media, forums and blogs, more people get to know your site and, in turn, spread the news about it to their friends. The chain reaction created is simply endless. 

However, most of the times, when a user shares a video, he shares the provider link, not your web page. This problem is alleviated with reEmbed Pemium.

In the free version of reEmbed, when someone shares your video, they have to use a link starting with http://t.reembed.com/, as shown below.

This premium feature, however, allows you to replace the t.reembed with your own domain name. This makes sure that every video your users share will have your own signature, your very own domain name on it. 

Personalise your share links and bring more people to your website now. For more info check our Pricing page.

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Nowadays, video content can greatly affect a website’s reach. As we traverse the 21st century, other media types are becoming more and more obsolete and the reasons are obvious: videos are a simpler, faster and more entertaining way to communicate and interact with eachother.

So, what can you do in order to step up your game? The reEmbed call to action premium feature is definately what you need. By enabling this feature, after your videos come to an end, a Call to Action (CTA) button will appear under the replay button. This can be anything from liking your Facebook page to visiting your online shop.

In other words, as soon as your content ends, you instantly interact with the viewer, preventing them from leaving your page and reducing bounce rate.

Obviously, this has a tremendous effect on your audience. Are you marketing your new product? As soon as your advertisment ends, the user will be promted to enter your online store. Have you published a new Vlog? As soon as it ends, the viewer will be promted to interact with your social media.

The possibilities are endless with our new Call to Action feature. For more info check our Pricing page.

We are proud to announce that, as of August 2015, more than 1.5 billion videos have been served using the reEmbed player! 

This marks a very important milestone in the history of reEmbed and encourages us, the reEmbed team, to work even harder in order to provide you with the features you love. 

However, there is more to come. Reaching 1.5 billion videos is just the first step for us and more features will be added to reEmbed in the near feature as we continue to grow and expand our platform.

After all, as Benjamin Franklin said: “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

And all of this would be impossible without your support. Keep using the reEmbed player and stay tuned. There is a lot more to come!

Do you want to expand your audience while having complete control over your videos? Do you want to decrese your website’s bounce rate and provide better content for your fans? Then you need the reEmbed video player! 

Here are 5 reasons why:

1. Embed videos from your favorite sites

Installing and using reEmbed is simple and easy. Just with a line of code, all existing videos embedded in your site are automatically replaced with your new player. ReEmbed supports embeds from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter and Dailymotion as well as HTML5 videos.

2. Customize your player to suit your needs

Fully customize your player’s appearance in our easy-to-use player wizard. From changing the colors of the player to adding your own logo on it, reEmbed allows you to adjust your video player to your needs. 

Say goodbye to ugly embeds that look like they do not belong with your page. Match your site's look & feel, and spread your brand when your videos are shared.

3. Access detailed real-time analytics

ReEmbed provides you with detailed statistics on all of your videos. Monitor video performance by tracking impressions, plays and video completitions using our free analytics suite and get total control over your embeds. 

You can even see what users are watching, around the world, in real-time and track other sites that have shared your videos! 

4. Increase your views with content recommendations

Until now, when a video came to its end, related content would appear, leading the user out of your site. With reEmbed, this happens no more!

With our brand new content recommendations engine, once the video ends, a gallery of videos is displayed that links to the pages on your site where the videos are embedded. It’s an easy way to increase your page views and take your content to the next level.

5. Say goodbye to broken videos

Videos get removed all the time from YouTube. When you embed lots of them across your site, it is impossible to keep track of which ones still work. 

But users don’t like broken videos. If a user lands on your page to watch a video and the video does not work, he will be forced to leave your website in search for a working video.

However, with reEmbed, broken videos are not an issue. Once a video is no longer able to play, you will receive an alert about it in your dashboard. ReEmbed lets you know which video no longer works, why it couldn’t be played, which page on your site includes it, and even suggests possible replacements. And the best part? It is completely free!

So, what are you waiting for? ReEmbed provides you with FREE tools that will change the way you approach videos for ever. Set up you own player now at https://www.reembed.com/. It takes less than 2 minutes!

Today we are very proud to announce the public release of the reEmbed Content Recommendation Engine.  By crunching up all the data from the videos played on your site, reEmbed is able to recommend videos to your users.  Each recommendation links to the page on which the video is embedded, resulting in a dramatic increase in the number of page views on your site and the time spent by each user.

Our recommendation widget comes in two flavors.  The first is a customized screen once the video ends, displaying video thumbnails.  During our beta test, the end screen widget produced some fantastic results with CTR’s reaching 80%.

The second option we provide is an embeddable HTML widget, that can be placed anywhere on your page.  The widget is responsive, and all it requires to include is one div.  Our script automatically detects it and handles the rest.  Here is an example of the widget at the end of an article.  The great thing about the HTML widget is that you can drive users to your videos without having a video on every page.

Apart from providing the tools that increase user engagement on your site, we also provide a way of tracking them.  In the dashboard there is a new section labeled ‘Recommendations’ that provides you with real time analytics on the performance of each widget.  You may view how many times the widget loaded, how interesting it was for the user, and how successful it was in making them visit an additional page on your site.

Videos get removed all the time from YouTube.  When you embed lots of them across your site, it is impossible to keep track of which ones still work.  Obviously when you embed a video it will work, but will it continue to work after one week? month? year?  On the other hand, the page in which you have embedded the video on will continue to exist after a year, and it will continue receiving traffic from search engines and social media.

So when a user lands on your page to watch a video and the video does not work, it’s a horrible experience that will lead to the user bouncing and leaving your site.

With reEmbed you can be on top of all your embedded videos, and stay informed regarding their status for free.  Once a video is no longer able to play, you will receive an alert about it in your dashboard.  reEmbed lets you know which video no longer works, why it couldn’t be played, which page on your site includes it, and even suggests possible replacements.

Video embeds stop working for a number of reasons.  These include:

deleted by user

embedding disabled

copyright violation

geo-restrictions

The reEmbed video player now supports HD video posters.

As time went by, we noticed that more and more users were embedding larger videos.  As a result the default poster was being stretched and pixelated, spoiling the look and feel of the page.

The latest version of our player fixes this by selecting the best sized poster based on the size of the player.  The fix took a bit more time to implement because we wanted to avoid forcing a high-res poster on every player, especially when the user was on mobile.

Do you want to make things that count?

If the answer is yes then this is a fantastic opportunity to join our growing team. We are looking for an intern Software Engineer during summer time who is passionate about learning new technologies and writing efficient code.

We are looking for a positive, eager to learn individual who enjoys working closely with a team. You will be working on improving our platform in terms of scalability and new features, whilst optimizing our technology stack.

From the beginning we realized that embedded videos were well-suited for sharing and for driving traffic to your site.  Before reEmbed, the problem was that when a visitor shared the video, she would share a link to the original provider, not to your site.

We built social sharing into the reEmbed player and verified that users were sharing the video as opposed to the entire page.  The sharing options that we introduced helped our users gain traffic via social media, so we set out to improve this feature.

The latest version of our player has a revamped social sharing menu.  Now it is easily accessible and allows for one-click sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, as well as providing a short-url for any other social media service.

In addition, we noticed that re-embeds (your video player inserted in a 3rd party website) had fantastic engagement and were also driving traffic to the users’ sites.  Therefore we decided to take reEmbedding one step further and have integrated it with Twitter’s video cards.

Now, when a user share’s your video on Twitter, your video player will be automatically embedded within the Twitter feed.  Below you can see an example:

reEmbed – Embed videos in your Twitter Stream https://t.co/dtEIHJjRBQ

— reEmbed (@reembed) April 14, 2015

Keep in mind that all sharing and embedding features may easily be disabled in the case that you don’t want your videos being shared (in case of private pages for members, etc).

Each user has their own preferences.  As feature requests started piling up, we realized that we had to provide the flexibility for each user to cater to their needs.

Starting today, we have released support for handling YouTube annotations, displaying the video title on the start screen, and the ability to allow sharing and embedding of your videos.

Page load times are a critical factor in terms of both user engagement and search engine optimization.  As websites become more complex and use more 3rd party scripts, they tend to become bloated resulting in increased page load times.

In no way did we want reEmbed to be one more service causing bloat to your website.  We focused on improving our video player’s performance from slimming it’s size, all the way to using cutting-edge HTML techniques (see sourceless iframes).

We are happy to announce support of Vimeo embeds.  This joins our list of YouTube, Dailymotion, and HTML5 videos.

Vimeo support is currently a beta feature, so if you want to start using it, you will have to enable it for your player.  This can easily be done when editing your player, go to the ‘Advanced options’ and then select ‘Play Vimeo’.

When playing Vimeo embeds with your reEmbed player, you will continue to receive realtime analytics and your logo on the player, however, we do not show your player’s control bar.  Instead, we color the controls using the same colors from your player.  The reason for this is that Vimeo does not provide a chromeless player, and we do not want to overlay our controls on top of theirs.

Our new responsive video player is publicly available!

This was the most requested feature in our support system.  It was also one of the most challenging to get right.  Now it is available, and can easily be enabled when editing your player by opening the ‘Advanced Options’ section and selecting the ‘Responsive sizing’ option.

As we grew, we noticed that lots of sites were already using a variety of techniques to make their videos responsive.  These techniques either involved solutions in CSS or in Javascript.  While these techniques work well on a single <iframe> element, they could not be applied to the reEmbed player because of the numerous HTML elements it was composed of.

The existing techniques had two additional problems.  The first was that they assumed that the control bar was always scaled within the video and that the video always had an aspect ratio of 16:9.