Video Channels

Group videos into a channel and publish a branded, browsable video library from a single embed code or URL.

Use this page to publish a group of videos as one browsable library.

A channel is a set of videos published together as a single branded page. Instead of one embed code per video, a channel gets its own URL and its own embed code, so adding a video to the channel updates the page without anyone touching your site.

When to use a channel

A single embed works well when the video belongs in a specific spot on a specific page: a hero, a product explainer, a testimonial beside a form.

Reach for a channel when the video collection itself is the destination. A patient education library, a set of onboarding videos, a conference session archive, or a recurring webinar series all want one place a visitor can browse. A channel covers that without you building a listing page, a router, and a player layout for it.

Create a channel

Go to Videos in the dashboard and open Channels.
Create a channel and give it a name.
Assign videos to it, and set the order they appear in.
Fill in the channel's presentation fields: a description shown under the title, a brand color, an optional logo, and footer text.
Publish the channel.

A channel stays private until you publish it, so you can assemble and order it before anyone can reach the page.

A video can belong to a channel and still be embedded on its own elsewhere. Assigning it to a channel does not move it or change its own embed code.

Put a channel on your site

A published channel gives you two options:

Link to the channel URL when you want the library to be its own destination, for example from a navigation item or an email.
Paste the channel embed code into a page when you want the library to appear inside your own layout.

Selecting a video in the channel plays it in the Ours Privacy player, with the same captions, brand color, and accessibility behavior described in Player accessibility.

Who can see a channel

Channel pages are public by their URL, the same as individual video embeds. Anyone with the link can browse the channel and play the videos in it. There is no per-viewer sign-in and no expiring link.

Treat a channel like any other public page on your site. Use it for marketing, education, and provider content, not for video meant only for specific people.

What a channel does not do

Naming these so you can plan around them:

Chapters within an individual video.
Search inside a channel. Visitors browse the list you ordered.
Channel-level reporting. Playback in a channel reports the same per-video events as any other embed, so Video Analytics shows the videos individually rather than the channel as a unit.

Getting a channel right

Give every video a real title and description. Both appear on the channel page and in reporting; see Updating a video.
Set a deliberate poster image on each video. The channel page shows them side by side, and a mismatched set looks it. See Thumbnails and poster images.
Review captions on anything published as a library, where visitors are more likely to browse without sound. See Captions and transcripts.

Next steps

Uploading videos: bulk upload the videos a channel will hold.
Embedding videos: place an individual video instead.
Video Analytics: how playback in a channel is reported.