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Connected Stories offer different varieties of widgets that can be implemented in your story. Users can interact with widgets via personalized content and that's what makes a story dynamic.

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*Any other form of widget can be customized according to requirement.


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Poll

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See sample of Poll Companion here

See sample of Poll Overlay here

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Quiz 

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See sample Quiz Companion here

See sample Quiz Overlay here

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Photo Gallery Companion

Widget Type: Photo Gallery

Widget Id: Gallery

Custom

  • Video 
  • Images
  • Arrow Color
  • Call to Action
  • Description

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Photo Gallery Overlay 

Widget Type: Photo Gallery

Widget Id: Gallery

Format:  Half Page Special (300x600)

Custom

  • Video 
  • Images
  • Arrow Color
  • Call to Action
  • Description
  • Link

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How to Set Up a Widget:

  • It is important to understand that widgets need to be timed. Therefore each widget is linked to an event. This allows you to have widgets that dynamically interact with your ads to appear and disappear as you wish.
  • 1.  On the right end side, just below the video preview - click on New Event.
  • 2.  Name the event you are adding and the setup when to trigger it through the timecode. Then select "Save and Add Widget".

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  • 5.  Some widgets (such as Polls and Quizzes) can be added as an overlay to your assets, you may choose to make your widget a webcontent or webcontent-overlay under Widget ID box.

    6.  Choose from any of the readily available templates for your widget's dynamic lay-out by choosing from the template drop down options.
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  • 7.  Click on "Advanced" to further edit the widget such as adding a background image or other items to it.
  • 8.  When you are done click Save. You will be redirected to the Story editor. 

  • 9.   If you want your widgets to disappear at a certain point of your ad, you will need to create another widget event for this and then input the timecode you wish the widget to disappear at..  This is when your widget will disappear.   
  • 10.  Select the specific widget type you want to disappear and then under mode select "Hide".  Click save when you are done.
  • 11.  After adding your widgets, you can preview how they would look like by clicking on the "Open Preview". This will give you a clear idea of how the story rolls out. 


Connecting the Widgets:

Within a story, it is also possible to set-The most fascinating aspect of Connected-Stories is being able to set up a widget that will trigger another widget . This is probably the most fascinating aspect of Connected-Stories. The fact that based on user actions within a story. Based on a user's action/s, a story can evolve in many different ways. In order to understand and define the logic behind it, we encourage you to visit the Rules Engine section.

Here you will see how to actually connect widgets (events) after a rules engine has already been designed for the story.

A) 1.  Click on new event or hit on edit if the event you want to connect has already been created.

B) Now under 2.  Under the "Context" you will see a list of context you can associate to that box, choose from the list of contexts available to associate with a particular event.

C) 3.  Now hit on open preview and you will be able "Open Preview" to see how your story evolve evolves based on the events you connected and within the underlying rules engine. 

*FYI: Contexts are the final blocks you placed in a the rules engine logic and they .  These are the ones you will be able to must connect to a particular event for the dynamic storytelling to be implemented. More on it of this in the Rules Engine Section

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Poll Companion

Widget Type: Poll

Widget Id: Poll (Companion)

Custom

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Choices

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height250

Poll Overlay

Click here to see demo story

Widget Type: Poll

Widget Id: Poll-Overlay

Custom

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Choices

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Drag and drop it everywhere on the video area

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Quiz Companion

Widget Type: Quiz

Widget Id: Quiz

Custom

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Quiz Overlay

Click here to see demo story

Widget Type: Quiz

Widget Id: Quiz-overlay

Custom

  • Question
  • Answers
  • Countdown to answer

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Widget Type: Photo Gallery

Widget Id: Gallery

Custom

  • Video 
  • Images
  • Arrow Color
  • Call to Action
  • Description

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Photo Gallery Overlay 

Widget Type: Photo Gallery

Widget Id: Gallery

Format:  Half Page Special (300x600)

Custom

  • Video 
  • Images
  • Arrow Color
  • Call to Action
  • Description
  • Link

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