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Widgets for Your Web Page

Want to add relevant how-to and instructional videos to your site? Now you can easily feature videos from 5min’s extensive how-to library directly on your site, with a 5min widget. 5min’s resources and content are now available to you, enabling you to add video widgets to your site pages. With 5min’s video widgets, you now have with the ability to customize what content will be displayed on your pages, as well as define the look and feel of your widget’s display. The possibilities are virtually endless.

In just a few quick and easy steps, you can choose to display quality how-to videos that are hand-picked by 5min’s Editorial Team, or create your own playlist from your 5min Favorites list (for registered members only).

You can choose to display a single video featured in 5min’s Smart Player, or a video thumbnail pane, allowing you to display more than one video for a rich and varied video experience on your pages. Simply select the widget of your choice and add videos to your pages!

Editor’s Pick of the Day

With 5min’s library and editorial resources, you get a high-quality content offering, featuring thousands of high-quality how-to’s, hand-picked by 5min’s editorial team in order to bring you the best of the 5min library.
5min’s editorial team screens and rates tens of thousands of videos on a daily basis, in order to identify high-quality videos, which explain and demonstrate a given topic in an excellent way – this means you get the best of 5min’s comprehensive library, providing your audience with videos that will keep them engaged and coming back for more!

Your Picks

5min’ Your Picks video widget allows you to choose the videos you wish to display on your site, according to your preferences.

Choose to feature videos from your 5min studio if you are a publisher, or pick them out of your 5min Favorites, enabling you to use the entire 5min library as a source for tens of thousands of videos.

Create Your Widget

Widget Display

First, select how you wish to display video content with your customizable widget: choose from either a single video displayed in the 5min Smart Player, or multiple related videos featured in a video pane.

One PlayerVideo Pane

Select Your Niche:

With tens of thousands of videos and a skilled editorial team focusing on quality content, 5min allows you to find the content you need within your niche. A perfect solution for niche-specific sites and category pages – simply select the 5min categories that match your niche, and get only videos specific to your chosen categories (you may select multiple categories). Get The Editor’s Pick of the Day videos in your specified niche delivered directly to your pages!

Widget Customization:

Customize the look and display of your widget to match your site’s look, feel and content. Choose the display size of the Smart Player to be featured on your page, select the colors for your player to personalize your display, and select categories to get videos from.

Header (optional)

Text on header

Ratio: 16/9 4/3 Custom

Size: X

Choose a Theme:

Choose one of our designer color themes:

Or select your exact color:

AutoStart:

Preview Your Widget Below:

See your customized widget - right here, right now!
Love it? Grab it using the code below!

Grab the Code

Simply copy the code snippet below and paste into your page – it is recommended to place the snippet at the header of your page.
Note: The VideoSeed code snippet can be placed on any page that supports JavaScript.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pshared.5min.com/scripts/PlayerSeed.js"></script>

Paste the code into the desired place within your site (script can be pasted anywhere under header):

Choose Your Category:

Select the categories that match your website’s content in order to choose which videos will be seeded to your pages.

Customize Your ThumbSeed:

Customize the look and display of your ThumbSeed to match your site’s look and feel. ThumbSeed allows you to set your display preferences to match your site – choose from a vertical or horizontal display in a variety of sizes, select colors to complement your site, and add a custom player title of your own.

Size:

Background Color:

Title:

Color:

Remove border:

Number of videos:

Preview your ThumbSeed Below:

Grab it

Simply copy the code snippet below and paste into your page – it is recommended to place the snippet at the header of your page.
Note: The VideoSeed code snippet can be placed on any page that supports JavaScript.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pshared.5min.com/scripts/ThumbSeed.js"></script>

Paste the code into the desired place within your site (script can be pasted anywhere under header):