Creating a Drupal Online Video Magazine using the Ooyala CDN The Challenges and Triumphs.
weavingmedia
Ben Finklea
Recently Mortgage News Network, a video magazine dedicated to the Mortgage industry, needed to bring their user experience up to date with new web standards and improve the day-to-day editorial workflow of the website. They wanted a solution that leveraged their existing Drupal capabilities and, after an exhaustive search, turned to Ooyala because of it’s extensive client management toolset, analytics capabilities, and SEO upside. After 3 months of intensive development, the new site launched in 2016. It was an incredible learning experience that shows the value of API Integration,and Media SEO and understanding the goal of the project at the outset.
Ensure that you let us know:
- Attendees should have familiarity with Site Building Specifically experience with:
- Views
- Media
- themeing
- Taxonomy
- Basic SEO
- Attendees will walk away with the following.
• How to choose the CDN platform that best meets client needs
• A comparison of the major Video / CDN platforms
• A review of the in-browser media players with compatibility for desktop and mobile applications
• What part SEO should take when selecting the right platform for any project
• The application of metatags / rich snippets and their affect on the crawl-ability of rich media by Google and Bing