You’ve created some great VideoAds for your advertisers. Your sales reps want to show examples to prospective customers but they can’t always count on Internet connections during their sales pitches.
In addition to running a VideoAd in your publication, an advertiser wants to upload the ad to YouTube or other video-sharing websites.
Now, generating a free-standing video file that you can play offline or upload is easy.
From within the VideoAd platform, you can download any VideoAd as an MPEG-4 (.mp4) video file. Common media players, including Windows Media® Player and QuickTime®, and popular video-sharing websites all support the .mp4 format.
Download MP4 Version button on the Syndication tab
To download a VideoAd, click Download MP4 Version on the Syndication tab in the Publisher.
Downloading is actually a two-step process:
- First, the platform has to generate the .mp4 file.
- Then, you can save the file to your computer.
Because file generation can take a few minutes, we’ve designed the process so you don’t have to sit and wait for it to happen. After you click the Download button to start the generation process, generation occurs in the background.
You can close the Download MP4 Version window, cancel out of the Publisher, and do some other tasks in the VideoAd platform. Or, if it’s time for a break or meeting, you can even close the platform altogether.
When you return and click Download MP4 Version, you can immediately save the .mp4 file to your computer.
Things to consider
- When you download a VideoAd to a free-standing .mp4 file, you lose interactivity. For example, suppose your VideoAd includes an overlay that viewers click to open a lead capture form. That overlay won’t be clickable in the .mp4 version.
- The INFO menu is not available in the .mp4 version.