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How to edit your Vimeo OTT site settings

This article discusses how to edit the settings of your Vimeo OTT site. 

To configure your Vimeo OTT site settings, navigate to Manage > Site.

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The left side of the page includes a navigation menu with various settings to the right.

In this article: 

General

The General tab will open by default.

Here you can edit:

  • Title: The name of your site. Your site title will appear at the top of the browser window when a visitor has your page open.
  • Description: What your content is about. Note that this is metadata that would appear in search engine search results, not on your site's homepage; a description on the homepage would need to be added via the theme editor (Hero Promotion > Short Description).
  • Site color: The main color your site shows, such as the top navigation bar.
  • Subdomain: Change your site’s URL on Vimeo OTT, e.g. “http://purplefitness.vhx.tv”
  • Custom domain: Set the URL you want to point to your Vimeo OTT site. E.g. "http://purplefitness.com". Read how at 'Enable a custom domain on Vimeo OTT'.
  • Facebook Page: Enter your Facebook page's URL to provide a link to your Facebook page on your site.
  • Twitter Username: Provide a link to your Twitter profile on your site.
  • Statement descriptor: By default, customers will see your site's subdomain as the descriptor on their bank statement when they purchase or renew. You can customize it here if you'd prefer it to say something else related to your business. It must be 3-17 alphanumeric characters.
  • Comments: By default, commenting on your videos are off sitewide. If you turn them on, you must agree to moderate comments.
  • Forums: You can activate a place on your site for your community to talk with you and each other about your content or other relevant topics. Forums are off by default; if you choose to enable forums, you are responsible for moderation.
  • Made for Kids: If your content primarily targets minors (e.g. children's shows), you must turn on Made for Kids.
  • Browse Options: Toggle on rows for automatically created categories, namely Movies and Series collections. You can also choose to display each of your Playlists.
  • Displayed information: When you use our discovery feature, you can choose which information is displayed to your audience on the video's detail pages (e.g. Genres, Crew, Tags). Click the (+) button to the right of the field to select the type of information to display.

Themes

This tab includes only one setting: the Choose theme button. Clicking this will bring you to the theme selector, where you can select and customize the layout and appearance of your site. 

Content

This tab allows you to configure the default settings and behaviors for select portions of your Vimeo OTT site content.  

These settings apply to your Subscription Product and will not impact your Buy or Rent Products.

  • Plans: Choose which plans you would like automatically applied whenever you add a new video.
  • Regions: Choose what geoblocking settings you would like applied whenever you add a new video. You may select inclusive or exclusive availability settings. 
  • Collection Position: Use this setting to specify what position new content is placed in when added to a collection. For example, if you want to always add videos to the beginning of a collection, choose “Beginning.”
  • New live event promotion: If your site has Live enabled (Growth and Enterprise only), turn on this setting to automatically add any new live events into your featured carousel. Leave it off if you'd prefer to manually manage live event destinations.

Tracking

The Tracking tab includes various options for tracking information and data about your site’s viewership and the effectiveness of advertising in driving sales to your site.

Advanced

The Advanced tab includes the following:

  • Segment Key: You can integrate Segment with your OTT site to get user-level analytics and other data. Instructions are outlined at 'Using Segment with OTT'. 
  • Webhook URLs: You can notify external services when an event, such as a purchase, happens on your OTT site. Read how at 'Create a Vimeo OTT webhook'.
  • Allowed Embed Hosts: If you're embedding your OTT content on a third-party site, you may want to restrict which domains can embed that content. Instructions are found at 'Using Embed Hosts on Vimeo OTT'.
  • Block Anonymous IP: Checking this option will prevent users from viewing geo-blocked content via VPN’s and proxies. Read how at 'How to block anonymous IPs on Vimeo OTT'.

Below the main navigation menu, you can publish and unpublish your site. Publishing your site makes it available everywhere. Unpublishing your site makes it available to only you and your team members. 

Delete site will permanently delete your site from Vimeo OTT.

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