Creating your video platform with OKAST offers numerous benefits and value-added features for your users. Among these is a search bar available on your OKAST platform – seemingly insignificant, yet so important. When set up correctly, this feature enables your users to find their content more easily, thereby improving user retention.
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1. Working of the search bar
We have developed a search algorithm that allows you to index some parameters in the search for content:
- keywords
- content descriptions
- casting
- category
- classification
This algorithm takes all these parameters into account in order to display the most relevant results. It is therefore very important that these various fields and metadata are correctly entered in OKAST. For example, the metadata for your content.
We display the following results here:
- Content
- Casting
- Smartlists/playlists
- Fast Channel
This variety of search offers a greater choice to your users and also allows them to discover content close to their interests.
Obviously we index all the languages that you can offer on your platform and offer a result in the language of your users.
Please note, the new information related to each content is indexed daily, it may take up to 24 hours before it is reflected in the search results.
2. Configuration of the search page
Configure the search page layout via the menu: PLATFORM > Layout > Search Page. This is where you choose which blocks are visible to your users when they carry out a search, as well as the order in which they are displayed.
a. Dynamic default text, which will display one or more customised texts in the search bar.
b. Advanced Search allows you to add fixed filters, such as the year of production, for example.
c. A default display can be set up to guide the user when they arrive on the search page, even before they carry out their first search.
This could be a Smartlist or the Recommendations feature, which highlights content related to content the user has already viewed.
d. The search results can be customised for each of the four categories displayed: Media, Smartlist, Casting and Channel.
You can choose the order in which the categories are displayed, and for each one, you can also set the format of the image shown to your users.
3. Use of the search bar
To use the search bar, just click on the magnifying glass icon and you will land on the search page.
If a default display has been chosen, here is how it looks when you arrive on the search page:
Smartlist: highlight the smartlist of your choice
Recommended: content related to content already viewed by the user is highlighted
