Want to make your platform come alive? Video and audio are your secret weapons! They're perfect for grabbing attention and making your communication feel more personal.

Why it matters

Integrating video and audio can serve multiple objectives, including:

• Lifting Your Internal Communication: While text is efficient, it often lacks the personal touch and nuance of voice or video. By adding media, you can share important updates, project milestones, or weekly company messages in a way that feels more engaging and immediate.
• Boosting User Interaction: Static content can easily get lost. Videos and audio clips are more dynamic and can draw users in, leading to higher click-through rates and longer session times.
• Making Learning and Development Effective: It's tough to convey complex procedures or company culture through text alone. Videos offer a more intuitive way to teach, especially for onboarding new employees. They can absorb information at their own pace and revisit key points as needed.
• Building a Shared Company Culture: Video and audio create a shared experience that can foster a sense of belonging. Hosting live streams of all-hands meetings or providing behind-the-scenes podcasts helps humanize the organization and its leadership.

Widgets for video and audio

• Video widget: This is a good option if you want to highlight a video but don't need to give further context or additional information outside the video. You can add the widget almost anywhere on the platform. Paste a URL to a video and specify a title and a description for your video. When you embed a video from a video provider, you can specify the exact starting time of the video. This enables you to begin the video at a moment of your choosing.
• RTE widget: The RTE (Rich Text Editor) widget allows you to upload videos via URL or from your computer or audio content via an uploaded MP4 file. This allows you to easily combine text, images, and media to provide additional context for your media. You can use the RTE in various apps or as a stand-alone widget.
• Media widget: You can create a gallery that features both images and videos using the media widget. This makes it easy to share visual content related to a specific topic. You select the widget and pick the videos and images from the file library to display. When clicked, a pop-up window opens, allowing the video to be played or downloaded. It's important to note that private videos, such as those on YouTube or Vimeo, cannot be played directly on the Haiilo platform. Therefore, hosting content directly on Haiilo or using our Media widget might be more suitable for private videos.

Plug-ins for video and audio

You need to add plug-ins through a Manifest URL first before you can use them. Learn more in Plug-ins overview.

• MMS Live: The MMS Live plug-in provides live streaming capabilities, allowing you to broadcast events, meetings, or other live content directly within Haiilo. It's perfect for engaging with your audience in real-time and fostering interactive communication.
• Movingimage: Movingimage is a video management platform that offers advanced features for organizing, distributing, and analyzing video content. This plug-in allows you to manage your video library efficiently, customize player settings, and track viewer engagement metrics.
• Hypecast / Podcast: This plug-in enables you to incorporate audio content, such as podcasts or audio recordings, into your Haiilo platform. Whether you're sharing company announcements, hosting interviews, or providing training materials, these plug-ins make it easy to deliver audio content to your audience.

Check out the Plug-in Marketplace in our Client Community to learn more about all available plug-ins for your intranet.

Further tips & tricks

• For multiple videos, such as playlists or how-to guides, embedding them within a blog or wiki post creates a seamless user experience. You can embed videos in the RTE section of your Blog/Wiki. In advanced mode, you can also add extra widgets below the RTE section for a different look and feel.
• MS Stream videos can be added to Haiilo via embed URLs through "Add video" in the Rich Text Editor, video widget or Timeline, generating a preview and playback functionality. Live event URLs can also be incorporated, enabling direct participation within Haiilo.