The Share menu is our name for the collection of social sharing options that can be added to the player that makes it easy for your audience to share your content in their social networks.

To add Share buttons, navigate to the video you’d like to add them to and choose "Customize". In the Customize panel, you’ll see an option to add Share options.

Click the option, and this will turn the Share buttons ON ◉.

Share has a bunch of buttons — which we can split into two buckets.

Wistia Sharing:

Social Sharing:

Here are what the sharing options look like on the video player:

And here’s what the sharing options look like on the audio player:

All of these buttons work pretty much how you think they will. When clicked, the sharing button will share the media content on an audience member’s chosen social media account. If you’d like to further customize the associated webpage that’s referenced in the share options, make sure to check out the Buttons Link to... section below.

You may have noticed an option to Configure the X and Download buttons. Keep reading for more information on just exactly how that works.

Wistia allows you to configure some of the social buttons to further customize your viewer or listener’s interaction with your content. You’ll be able to configure the X and Download buttons.

When someone clicks on the "X" button on your media, they’ll be prompted to create a tweet about the link they’re sharing. By default, this is the title of the media, but you can customize the tweet to line up with your brand.

Just select the Configure button next to the X option, craft your awesome tweet, and be sure to hit Done.

Woohoo!

You can also configure the Download button to specify the quality of the video download. Viewers can download the Original File, the SD MP4 asset (the lowest quality copy we make), or the HD MP4 asset (the highest quality copy we make). The default is the SD MP4 asset.

Select the quality you’d like to allow, and make sure to hit the Done button when finished.

Keep in mind, allowing your users to download any versions of your video (but especially the higher quality options) will use more of your monthly allotted bandwidth.

Check out our bandwidth page for more tips on cutting down bandwidth consumption.

You can also use the Share buttons to link to a specific page where you’ve embedded your media, instead of the Wistia media page.

To customize this setting, just head into the Share menu from the Customize panel on the left, and change the setting from Where the video or audio is embedded to A specific page.

Fill in the page you’d like the social option to link to, and don’t forget to Save your settings.

Want to see who’s clicking the Share buttons in your video? We track that information in your Media Analytics.

Shares for your videos will appear as Actions in the Summary Bar on your media analytics page and on individual heatmaps for your viewers and listeners.