Adding a video to your favorite wikiHow articles can add terrific value for other readers looking to get their how-to groove on, and can often times improve the article and help in providing a visual explanation for an idea or project. Personally, I find this to be particularly true when it comes to Origami – while the written steps I usually see in paper-craft guides or magazines are great, being a little clumsy I usually need someone to walk me through the steps of an elaborate fold.

Embedding videos on wikiHow is quick and quite easy – when browsing or penning a wikiHow article, look on the left hand side navigation bar of any article. Under “Editing Tools” click on “Embed Video”, and refine your search to help locate an appropriate match from the 5min library. For a detailed step-by-step explanation of the process, please read this handy guide pieced together by the awesome folks at wikiHow. Below, you can see an example of a 5min video embedded in a wikiHow article, How to Make White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies:

If you’re a big wikiHow fan like us, or just hang out and contribute as a part of the wikiHow community, be sure to stop by and say hello! We’d be more than happy to help you find the right 5min videos for your wikiHow articles.

5min’s semantic syndication platform for instructional video programming now reaches 100M unique users via our vast network of partner publisher sites. This platform pairs brand advertising with relevant video from 5min’s library of hundreds of thousands of new and existing professionally-produced, niche-specific how-to titles licensed from content partners like NBC Universal, Ford Models, Elle and Kiplingers, for semantic delivery across the 5min network.

The VideoSeed, which we see as the very heart of our growing syndication platform, uses smart page analysis to contextually match only the most relevant videos to your existing content. In effect, the VideoSeed enables you to breathe life into your website with a direct source for tens of thousands of high-quality videos from 5min’s rich how-to library. That’s right – we’ve cracked the very DNA code of video, so that you don’t have to! Now website publishers can easily add entire video sections to their websites, using a customizable version of 5min’s innovative SmartPlayer and vast content library.

Instantly add relevant, video content to your website in the click of a button, coupling the existing content on your site with hundreds of thousands of high-quality, ad-supported, contextually relevant videos from 5min’s segmented library – all without a single day’s work!

We’re also excited to be announcing our new syndication partners, among them Answers.com, WikiHow, Wikia, Helium , AskTheBuilder and many more.

To find out more about syndication opportunities and how you can benefit from VideoSeed, contact us.

The new and improved Smart Player offers you a complete video learning experience – for the first time, video, text, images and more join forces to provide you with a comprehensive one-stop shop for instructional content. Needless to say, we are beyond excited to let you all check it out and play around with all of the amazing features the new Smart Player brings to the table.

Now you can go beyond video, and enrich your how-to videos with Add-Ons - text guides and photos meant to enhance the video learning experience. This is an ideal place to incorporate recipes, tabs, lyrics, sketches and diagrams – almost anything you can think of that may help your viewers benefit to the max from your videos.

You can also create Scenes, or storyboards, to accompany your video and provide your audience with a detailed step-by-step visual process to follow.

Looking for the ideal place to plug your blog or website? Place it as a link in any of your videos, and help your viewers find you – that’s what the Links feature is for.

The best part about the new Smart Player is that all of its innovative features are available to you in the traditional watchpage display as well as in full-screen mode, and better yet, even when embedded – meaning you can take this entire neat package with you and use it on your blog or website.

In addition, you control your video viewing experience: click on the Zoom icon in order to zoom in or out of a specific area of the video you’re viewing, advance frame by frame, or opt for slow-motion play and set your own pace.

By clicking on the Related tab, you can easily access more great videos suited to your taste…The possibilities are endless. What are you waiting for? Go Smart!

Check it out here:

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new Smart Player! Meanwhile, you are invited to play around, explore, and discover all the awesome things that await you at 5min. Can’t wait to upload a video of your own? Simply check out our easy, breezy Smart Upload .

On a personal sidenote, this has been one of the most fun projects I have had the privilege of working on – and no reward comes close to seeing it all go live, of course. Just imagine how great it’s been to finally be able to dream beyond video and add a personal Smart touch to it all. In fact, why not try it out for yourselves?

Cheers,

Ealeal & the 5min Team