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External Media Content Type Overview

Learn how to add YouTube/Vimeo videos, audio players, and other types of external media into your app using the External Media content type.

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Written by Ryan Miller
Updated over 8 months ago

About External Media

The External Media content type can be used to bring external media into Cogniss. It acts as a web wrapper allowing video players and audio players to be easily integrated into your Cogniss application.

To use this content type, simply:

  1. Create a new content block by clicking the Create new content block button

  2. Assign a Data Label to the content block

  3. Select EXTERNAL_MEDIA as the content type

  4. Add the URL of the media you would like to display

  5. Click Save Changes

Note: When bringing in media hosted on another platform (i.e. YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud etc.) you'll need to use the 'embed URL' from the player itself, rather than the page URL the media is hosted on. This URL can usually be found in the sharing settings of the player itself.


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