Account – The main account holder who manages all operations, publishers, users and websites

Sub-Accounts – Sub-Accounts are full-fledged accounts tied to a main account (sometimes called a “parent account”). They can be created by premium and enterprise partners.

Users – You can give log in access to people who manage your videos and websites with different levels of access depending on the role assigned to the user.
Admin: Full access to all features and tools, including user administration
Content Producer: Can upload and edit videos and playlists, no access to financial information
Restricted Producer: Can only edit videos and playlists, no access to financial information

Websites – Actual websites where the videos are playing

For the Trial Membership and Premium Partnership there are no costs incurred. If you have an Enterprise Partnership you only pay for what you use. New pricing coming soon, check back here soon.

In order to receive payment from Playwire, we need a W8 or W9 on file for tax purposes. If you reside in the United States you can provide a W9 Tax Form, instructions found here. If you live outside the United States you can provide a W8 Tax Form, instructions found here.

In your account settings, you can view and edit information such as your name, address and contact info, upload your tax form, change your payout methods, enter your Youtube log in credentials and also view your account features, users and websites.

1. Click Account Settings from the top right Account menu
2. You will land on the Overview tab
3. You can edit the Features, Advertising, Payouts and Company Info

To change your main account password, follow these steps:

1. Click Edit User from the top right Account menu
2. Click the Change Password button
3. The New Password input will appear
4. Enter a new password and press Save Changes

If you need to change the password of any user besides your main account, follow these steps:

1. Click Admin from the main left navigation
2. Click Users from the expanded Admin menu
3. Find the user and click Edit under the actions column
4. Click the Change Password button
5. Enter a new password and press Save Changes

The Playwire backend makes it easy to submit a support ticket if you are having troubles. Follow these steps to submit a support ticket:

1. Click Support from the main left navigation
2. Click Submit Support Ticket from the expanded Admin menu
3. Click the Add Support Ticket button
4. Enter your information and press Submit

Playwire offers access to wide variety of analytics, here are some highlights:

• Play data, by video and in total
• Ad impressions
• Bandwidth usage
• Revenue, from your videos and from Sandbox videos
• Estimated CPMs

• Play data – Every 10 minutes
• Ad Impressions – Every 24 hours
• Bandwidth – Every 30 minutes
• Revenue – Every 24 hours
• Estimated CPMs – Every 24 hours

Yes, you are able to use Google Analytics with Playwire. Click the Learn More link below to learn how to implement Google Analytics. Learn More

Playwire currently accepts Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Discover credit cards. We are sorry but we currently cannot accept PayPal, debit, and prepaid debit cards as payment.

All accounts are billed on the 1st of the month for the previous months usage. For example, on February 1st, you would be billed for January’s usage.

On the 1st of the month, the credit or debit card you signed up with will be charged the amount billed. The charge will show up on your statement from Authorize.net.

Effective Cost Per Mille (Mille means 1000 in latin) – The advertising revenue generated per 1,000 impressions.
* Note – Impressions include all pre-roll and overlay (banner) advertising

All payments are done Net 60 – Payments are disbursed every 60 days or about every 2 months. A minimum of $100 for PayPay and $500 for wire transfers must be earned before you can be payed out.

• Some payment methods may have fees, which we will subtract from the amount earned before you are paid
• We are not responsible for any other fees which may be charged by other parties involved in the payment, such as PayPal
• Within the US we can payout via check and PayPal, but outside the US we can only payout via wire transer and PayPal

1. Click Account Settings from the Account menu in top right nav
2. Click the Payouts tab and click the Payout Methods section
3. Next, you can select your preferred method Check or Paypal
4. Click Save Changes

Sub-Accounts are full-fledged accounts tied to a main account (sometimes called a “parent account”). They can be created by premium and enterprise partners.

Sub-Accounts cannot be approved for Playwire ads unless their parent has already been approved. They also cannot have their own payout information or invoices. A Sub-Account cannot use the premium model unless the parent is also premium, and they cannot use the enterprise model unless the parent is also enterprise.

All revenue generated by a Sub-Account is paid to the parent, and all costs incurred by a Sub-Account are reflected on the parent’s invoice.

A website is an actual location where you embed your videos. This could be your website or someone else’s website.

1. Click Admin from the left nav menu
2. Click Websites from the expanded Admin menu
3. Click the Add Website button on the top right side
4. Enter the website URL and click Save Changes

A user is a person you would like to give access to your account. When you sign up for Playwire, an admin user is automatically created for you.

To add a user to your account, follow these steps:

1. Click Admin from the left nav menu
2. Click Users from the expanded Admin menu
3. Click the Add User button on the top right side
4. Enter the user info and click Add User

A user role sets different sets of permissions to a user. Playwire offers the following user roles:

• Admin: Full access to all features and tools, including user administration
• Content Producer: Can upload and edit videos and playlists
• Restricted Producer: Can only edit videos and playlists

The Bolt Video Player currently supports many popular video formats

• You can upload: mp4, m4v, f4v, mov, flv … etc
• Playwire outputs mp4, ogg* and webm* versions of your videos

The Bolt Video Player currently defaults to play videos using HTML5. If the browser or device does not support HTML5, there is a Flash Player fallback.

The Bolt Video Player supports the following devices and browsers:

• iOS, Android, Blackberry
• Smartphones, Tablets, Mac and PC Laptops and Desktops
• XBOX, PS4, Chromecast
• Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer

The Playwire backend offers an easy to use video uploader. You can also upload videos via the Platform API, the Playwire WordPress Plugin, or using the Playwire PHP Client Library.

To upload videos using the Playwire backend, follow these steps:

1. Click Videos from the left nav
2. Click Upload New Video from the expanded menu
3. Drag or select your video file from the Select Video File section
4. Enter information for your video
5. Click Upload

• Your internet connections might have dropped out during the upload process
• The video file might be corrupted or the wrong format
• You may have navigated away from the upload page

1. Click Videos from the left nav
2. Click Upload New Video from the expanded menu
3. Click the CSV/MRSS Upload tab
4. Drag or click your CSV/MRSS file from the Select CSV/MRSS File section
5. If you need a sample file click here
6. Click Upload

1. Click Videos from the left nav
2. Click Manage Videos from the expanded menu
3. Select the video you would like to embed
4. On the top of theVideo Details section, you will see Embed
5. Click the copy icon to copy the embed code to your clipboard

• Check for any typos or error when you copied and pasted the embed code
• Embed code will NOT work without a web server or local server environment such as MAMP or XAMPP
• <!DOCTYPE html> must be declared at the top of your HTML document or you may encounter errors in Internet Explorer

The Bolt Video Player currently supports the following ad formats:

• Digital Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) 3.0 – universal XML schema for serving ads to digital video players, and describes expected video player behavior when executing VAST-­formatted ad responses
• Digital Video Player Ad Interface (VPAID) 2.0 – establishes a common interface between video players and ad units, enabling a rich interactive in-stream ad experiences; Playwire supports both Javascript- and Flash-based VPAID content

After signing up for either an Enterprise or Premium Membership, you will be able to set up your ad tags. Once ad tags are properly configured, you will be able to set up pre-roll and mid-roll advertising. You can also set up cue points for when advertising will appear. By default, cue points are set to every 7 minutes.

The Bolt Video Player will play a wide variety of ads depending on several factors. Depending on the ad network called, user demographics, geolocation and browsing behavior of the user will be served targeted advertising.

Premium Partnership – Serve our ads

• Access to our own direct sales campaigns
• Plug in to thousands of top video ad networks instantly
• 100% global ad fill
• VAST / VPAID compliant

Enterprise Partnership – Serve your ads

• Serve your own ads through the Bolt Video Player
• Keep 100% of the revenue
• Implement Playwire’s ad module for additional back fill

Playwire partners with 100’s of ad partners including but not limited to:

• Advertising.com, Adap.tv, AdoTube, Answer Media
• BeOn, Brightroll, Defy Media, GlibHippo
• Google, Innovid, Komli, LiveRail
• Millenial Media, Sizmek, Smartclip, SpotXchange
• Vpodia, VeNA, Videology, YuMe, Collective
• PointRoll, Flashtalking, Teads.tv, DoubleClick

An ad tag is a long string of text an advertiser provides to a publisher or ad network that calls the advertisers ad server for the purposes of displaying an advertisement

Default Ad Tags:

• A fallback for all ad calls if no site specific ad tags are present

Website Specific Ad Tags:

• You can choose to use a different ad tag for each site
• For example, if you own www.videogames.com and www.movietrailers.com you would be able to use a different ad tag for each domain to serve different ads

Video Specific Ad Tags:

• You can choose to use a different ad tag for each video
• If your account has this feature enabled, you can paste your ad tags into the Video Specific Ad Tags section in the Edit Video tab of your video

Embed Specific Ad Tags:

• Embed Ad Tags allow Enterprise Publishers to utilize your own ad tags on a per embed basis
• For example, it is now possible to embed the same video in multiple locations while using different ad tags for each embed

Ad tag variables are text variables you can insert into an ad tag which tells the ad server specific information about the ads you want to be served. Bolt Video Player supports a number of variables that can be added to your VAST tag URL.

Below are examples of ad tag variables available to use:

The Bolt Video Player API has 14 events that can be listened to. Ad events, content event and Interface events are further explained in the Bolt Video Player API Documentation

Premium and enterprise publishers can submit their videos to our syndication “Sandbox”, a space where publishers can share content that they wish to reach a broader audience. Other publishers can then browse the Sandbox and find great video content to feature on their websites.

There are two ways to make money from syndication:

• If you find a video in the Sandbox and place the video on your site, then you receive a cut of the ad revenue generated by people viewing that video on your site.
• If you share a video in the Sandbox, then you also receive a cut of ad revenue generated by people viewing your video on the sites of other publishers.

There are certain standards your content must adhere to to be added to the Playwire Sandbox. Only high-quality content will be accepted; contact us for more information.

The Playwire Platform API is an easy to use interface for developers to interact with the Playwire Platform. For example, instead of logging into the Playwire admin, a developer could upload videos to the platform via one line of code.

GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are the HTTP methods developers can use to manage videos, playlists, users, video categories and player settings.

The API token is automatically generated for you in the Playwire backend. It is a long string of text and numbers that is unique to your own account. We use this “token” to authenticate you to make sure you are who you say are. To find your token, follow these steps:

1. Click on “Edit” from the Account dropdown
2. Click on the “Details” tab
3. Copy the API Token, it will look similar to this: FcF6ed8H-Kjsd
4. Use the token when making API calls to Playwire

We currently have an API client for you to test and explore the API located here.

The Bolt Video Player is Playwire’s cutting edge proprietary video player which integrates with the Playwire Platform allowing you to monetize your videos on every screen. Identify key content metrics and audience behaviors from any website your content is embedded on.

Customize your Bolt Video Player look and feel, set your watermark, and ensure your branding follows your content wherever it is distributed.

The best place to get started with the Bolt Player is the Bolt Video Player API Documentation. There you will learn about:

• Embedding the Bolt Player
• Enabling loading and other features
• Learn about the methods, events, attributes and properties available to use via the Bolt Player API

The PHP Playwire Client provides a fairly simple PHP class to manage your videos via the Playwire API. GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are the HTTP methods you can use to manage videos, playlists, playlists, users, video categories and player settings.

This client has no external dependencies. Just download the client library, place it in a location of your choosing, and require/include it where you’d like to use it.

You can download the code here

The support documentation for the Playwire Platform API is located here.

For users with WordPress sites, Playwire has provided an official plugin in the WordPress repository. The Playwire for WordPress plugin is an easy way for you to integrate with your Playwire account to manage your video inventory and posting without leaving your WordPress admin CMS.

You can download the plugin from the WordPress plugin library here or by searching “Playwire” in the “Add Plugin” page of the WordPress Dashboard backend.

Yes, the current Playwire WordPress Plugin supports the Bolt 3.0 Video Player.

The game uses the Integrator to play an ad when the game first starts, then again each time the user quits and chooses a new level to play.

1. First, you need to create a record of your game in our systems
2. Go to app.intergi.com and log in
3. Select “Add or Resume Game” from the Games dropdown menu
4. Click on the “Add New Game” button in the top right corner
5. Complete the first three steps of adding a new game
6. You will receive your Game ID and Publisher ID in Step 4
7. Follow the rest of the steps here

If your game does not play ads, despite being approved for ads, you can retrieve some info from the AdIntegratorErrorEvent.ERROR event.

private function onAdIntegratorError(event:AdIntegratorErrorEvent):void {
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp trace(this,event.type,event.message,event.info); 
}

The latest version of the Ad Wrapper automatically pulls in the ad tags that have been associated with your account, so all you have to do is put the code in your page, place your game or other content within the part of the code we’ve marked for you, and you are done. The Pre-Game Ad Wrapper works by hiding your content while a snippet of Javascript plays an ad within the Bolt Player 3.0. Once the ad is finished, the Bolt Player hides itself, and reveals your content. Here’s an example of what the Wrapper looks like in action.

1. Go to app.intergi.com and login
2. Select “Pre-Game Wrapper” from the Advertising dropdown menu
3. Copy the code snippet and paste it on your webpage

Because the Pre-Game Ad Wrapper is built around Bolt Player 3.0, you can utilize all the API functions offered by Bolt. To learn more about these, please explore the Bolt Player 3.0 API documentation.