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Repo to handle technical issues with Denver Post TV http://dptv.denverpost.com/
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Exploring scroll-to-play functionality #183

Open danielpetty opened 9 years ago

danielpetty commented 9 years ago

Is it possible to set up the videos so that it's scroll-to-play: If the user's screen shows the video (i.e., it's in the middle of the article) then the video autoplays once the user scrolls to that point.

freejoe76 commented 9 years ago

You're talking about in-article iframed videos, right?

danielpetty commented 9 years ago

Correct, yes. I heard about this through Perform Media's sports highlights functionality. It only autoplays once the video appears on your screen, so it doesn't start autoplaying on article load. This would save us from having to create multiple freeforms for autoplay/non-autoplay.

freejoe76 commented 9 years ago

Yea, gotcha. How's the autoplay experiement going? I thought we were only doing it for a week or two.

danielpetty commented 9 years ago

No complaints so far, I'm told. And nothing has been forwarded, so far so good? We'd need to look at bounce rate more closely, as you mentioned.

freejoe76 commented 9 years ago

Finished a working draft of this functionality.

freejoe76 commented 9 years ago

Loading the iframe and then playing it when it comes into view requires much more work than loading & playing the iframe when it comes into view.

danielpetty commented 9 years ago

My concern with the second option is that loading it all at once we take so long that people wouldn't see it at all.