Using the Distribution Manager, Flash developers now have the ability to easily allow for their content to be sharable. It provides code that gives your end users options to share the content to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, iGoogle, Yahoo! and many other social destinations.

The Adobe Distribution Manager (ADM) itself is an Adobe AIR application. The ADM is beneficial for both businesses as well as developers.

Adobe Distribution Manager: Developers

Developers can use the ADM to create new campaigns, and generate both the embed code as well as the necessary AS2 or AS3 needed to setup the share menu within their Flash project.

There is also a Flash Component that allows for the setup of new share buttons, but I’ve found that using the ADM is much quicker and maybe even slightly more simple.

Adobe Distribution Manager: Businesses

Tracking the effectiveness of the campaigns is also something ADM does very well. Each campaign allows for the tracking of Views, Menu Views, Interactions, Installs, Stickiness, Emails Sent, Viral Grabs, Unique Users, and any Custom Events setup within the content. You can divide these analytical results by country and destination, and analyze on a variation of timescales.

Once you have a campaign setup, and your content is ready for sharing, you also have the option to purchase ad campaigns using the Promotion Service. “The Promotion service provides free and paid methods of distributing your applications on social, desktop, and mobile platforms. It also provides tracking with a rich set of traditional and social analytics and enables application monetization through ad-hosting.”

A Few Recent Projects That Use ADM and Sharing

Pearson Education wanted to take a card game focused on first grade math addition skills into an interactive Flash widget. This allows a viral penetration of the game. I was also involved in the creation of their iPhone Application. Download it here.

Yahoo! De Moda created a campaign that allows users to share video content across social media. This allows their website visitors to share the content with friends and promotes more visits to their main site. This widget uses both the share code from the Adobe Distribution Manager as well as the custom Gigya Connect Share Toolbar. I also created both an iPad and iPhone app for Yahoo! De Moda. Download the iPhone app here. Download the iPad app here.

Download Adobe Distribution Manager

Learn more about the Promotion Service

Take a look at FLV Player, and our new Free FLV Player at http://flvplayer.com.

If you ever wanted to add video to your projects or websites, there is no easier way than using pre-built Flash video components. Our player is one of the most feature loaded components on the market and it was specifically designed to suit developer and designers needs. It provides a fast and easy way to add video content in just few steps.

Get your own Free FLV Player here

Here are some more new features that we recently added to FLV Player:

FlashVar Support
FlvPlayer now fully supports FlashVars. This is another layer of interactivity that we’ve created that allows anyone who doesn’t have Flash to also benefit from the player. It provides access to all of the parameters of the player directly from the swf embed code.

Tooltips
We’ve upgraded the interface to allow for individual tooltips on all of the FLV Player elements. You also have the ability to control the colors and transparencies.

Stream YouTube! Videos
Stream all of your favorite YouTube! videos directly in your website or blog using our custom PHP streaming scripts.

Stream Vimeo Videos
Stream all of your favorite Vimeo! videos by simply letting FLV Player know the Vimeo video id.

More information is available at FLVplayer.com

FLVplayer supports all of the video formats available through the Adobe Flash platform including, but not limited to, MOV, MP4, F4V, and of course FLV.

Customize FLVplayer to match the look and feel of your current website or project. Modify the component to give it your own custom interface.

Our FLVplayer is loaded with features. If you’re a seasoned programmer, use our API to extend the options, and create engaging multimedia video.

• Progressive or instant RTMP streaming using a Flash Media Server
• Customizable XML menu system to load multiple video files, thumbnails, video titles and descriptions
• Dynamic Interface Options allow for turning interface elements on or off
• Live preview of component features within the Flash interface
• Custom color options for all aspects of the FlvPlayer interface including background colors, font colors, rollover colors, and controls for transparencies
• Fullscreen toggle
• Closed captions
• Advanced video display controls including Fit To Player, Original Size, Fit to Width, and Fit to Height
• Dynamic Buffering
• Interface Display options that include Overlay or Outside, and Autohide
• Dynamically rounded corners settings
• Full API supporting all major functions as public methods

For more information, please visit FLVplayer.com and DevBase.com

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I’ve recently partnered with the owner of FLVPlayer.com, and we have some very interesting things planned for our next version of our Flash Video Components.

The name FLVplayer doesn’t limit our video player to FLV video files. Using our component you can deploy video players that support all of the video formats available through the Adobe Flash platform including, but not limited to, MOV, MP4, F4V, and of course FLV.

Playing videos isn’t the only functionality we’ve included in FLVplayer. Go beyond simply displaying video on your site and push your projects to the next level. Customize the FLVplayer in look and feel, and give your website visitors and project end users the ultimate experience in online video.



Some of the new features will include:

• new interface
• new functionality
• user friendly
• highly customizable

Sign up at flvplayer.com to be notified when the new flv player component is released.

We’re currently about a week away from completing the updated FlvPlayer Flash Component, and more details will be available here once the component is released for sale.

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