Custom Media Carousels are a powerful tool to customise how your media displays in carousels in your app and website pages. This feature is only available to some customers, so if you're unsure, please contact us.
Most of our packages will provide you with a default 'Trending Series' and 'Recent Series' carousel in your media page in your app. These can be modified, and additional media pages can be customised with this feature.
It is important to understand that adding carousels is a two step process:
- Add the carousel to your 'Carousel Library'. These don't have to be active, but rather offer you a bank of carousels available to be added to a page within your app or website.
- Once a banner is in your library, you can activate it to your homepage, or other media pages active within your website.
Carousel Types
Media Carousels can be very clever and update themselves with your new content as you add media, so be sure about which logic you want your carousel to use.
Carousels can contain one of the following types of media:
- Movie titles
- Displays the movie poster in the carousel,
- Opens the movie information when clicked.
- TV Season titles
- Displays the season image in the carousel,
- Opens the whole season when clicked.
- A/V Series titles
- Displays the series image in the carousel,
- Opens the whole series when clicked.
- TV Season Episodes (Currently Web only)
- Displays the Episode image,
- Opens the Season page, with only the relevant episode visible (other episodes can be 'unhidden if required by the users)
- A/V Series Episodes (Currently Web only)
- Displays the Episode image,
- Opens the Season page, with only the relevant episode visible (other episodes can be 'unhidden if required by the users).
Carousels can behave/be generated with the following logic options:
- Recent Titles
This shows the most recent titles added. - Trending Titles
This automatically checks which titles have been watched the most and displays them by popularity. - By Keyword
Have titles automatically add themselves to the carousel when a matching keyword/content tag is added to a title. - Manual Selection
Manually select the titles you want to appear in the carousel.
To add carousel to your app or website
- Login to the EzyStream Dashboard,
- Browse to Manage and find 'Banners and Carousels',
- Click
Carousel (at the top of the centre column, above 'Carousel Library', - Enter the information about your carousel.
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