Associated Press Online Video Network Inline Player & Promotional Tools

AP Online Video Network Inline Player & Promotional Tools
Last updated May 1, 2009
AP offers an inline player and several dynamically-updating promotional tools that you can use to promote the OVN from your website. They are all listed here with sample code and instructions attached. If you have any questions about how to use these tools, please contact us at apcustomersupport@ap.org or 1-877-836-9477.

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How to display our most recent special sections in your inline player and promotional tools

For the most recent list of categories, visit your player and click on the “By Section” component of your navigation to display all the latest categories. Once you have found the section you want (for example our High Cholesterol section from AnswersTV or our event-specific section on NCAA Basketball) you can highlight, copy and paste that section name (e.g. “By Section/Health/AnswersTV Health Videos/High Cholesterol” or “By Section/Sports/NCAA Basketball”) into your inline player or promotional tool code.

Here is a partial list of the categories you can include in your inline player and promotional tools (Note that the variable value for the player is case-sensitive and this list is subject to change):

Category	"cat" parameter code	Category	"cat" parameter code
Top Video	Editors Picks	US News Video	By Section/U.S.
World News Video	By Section/World	Entertainment News Video	By Section/Showbiz
Money	By Section/Money	Health News Video	By Section/Health
Sports News Video	By Section/Sports	Local News Video	Local (Contact us about our publishing solutions)

	Option #1: Search-Enabled OVN Promotional Tool! We have created a new OVN promotional tool with a different look and feel and a search box that users on your site can use to look for videos in the Online Video Network. Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF
	Scrolling is recommended! These tools did more than twice the traffic of static tools in live testing. Option #2: Small Three Thumb Vertical (Scrolling) Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF Option #4: Small Three Square Vertical (Static) Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF
	Option #3: Small Three Square Horizontal (Scrolling) Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF Option #5: Small Three Square Horizontal (Static) Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF
	Option #6: Text Only Horizontal (Static) Download sample code: ZIP Download Instructions: DOC PDF

New Features and Enhancements

Display Multiple Promotional Tools on the Same Page

Please be aware that if you feature more than one of the same promotional tool on one of your pages, a small code change is now required on your part to ensure that all of your tools display properly. In order to display more than one instance of the same promotional tool (say two large vertical search tools, or four horizontal scrolling tools), each SWF object on the page must contain a unique name. So for example, if you had more than one instance of the small horizontal scrolling tool, you will need to change your code from:

("http://img.video.ap.org/p/s/sm_hz_3thumb_scroll.swf", "sm_hz_3thumb_scroll", "280", "100", "7");
to:
("http://img.video.ap.org/p/s/sm_hz_3thumb_scroll.swf", "sm_hz_3thumb_scroll_2", "280", "100", "7");

Change the Size of your Promotional Tool

You can change the size of your promotional tool by adjusting the size parameters (width followed by height) that appear in your code. For example you can change your code from:

"sm_hz_3thumb_scroll", "280", "100", "7");
to:
"sm_hz_3thumb_scroll", "400", "143", "7");

Display Multiple Categories in One Tool

Customers can display multiple categories of content in the same tool by providing multiple categories in the code (e.g. ap.addVariable "cat1", "World" on one line and "cat2", "Sports" on the second would display an alternating mix of World and Sports content):

ap.addVariable("cat1", "entertainment");
ap.addVariable("cat2", "sports");
ap.addVariable("cat3", "money");
ap.addVariable("cat4", "editorsall");
ap.addVariable("cat5", "local");