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Government agencies are increasingly taking advantage of streaming media on their Website to empower online audiences with fast, flexible, transparent, and user-friendly access to the highest-quality public information they can deliver.

Granicus streaming solutions offer a variety of Website Integration options to make it easier for audiences to locate the live and archived media content they are interested in. As part of our Professional Services, a Granicus Designer will tailor the design and navigation of your media content to maximize usability and accessibility. Our Website Integrations are customized to match the look and feel of your Website. They also set consistent standards so your end-users know what to expect, every time they visit your Website to watch and listen to your streaming broadcasts.


Flexible design templates

There are two primary design templates at the core of every streaming solution. Depending on your communication preferences, you may need more than one type of each template to present your streaming media content to end-users in the most convenient and accessible formats.


  • Media Portal
    A webpage or multiple webpages can be embedded into your existing website to display your live and archived media content. Our Designers work with you to customize the organization and of structure your media archives to help end-users find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.

    MediaManager is used to manage which 24-hour channels, live events, and on-demand content is available to audiences on your Website.

    View our Media Portal features.

  • Media Player
    When a visitor wants to access a webcast, a new browser window opens and displays a Media Player with associated documents and features. You may choose to have multiple players depending on your website design and the types of content you have.

    View our Media Player features.


Industry leading navigation options

Granicus offers four navigation options for integrating streaming media with your Website. We’ll listen to your content needs and business requirements and make recommendations on the best approach for organizing your media content.

  • 1- The Player Player
  • 2- The Full Integration Full
    Integration
  • 3- The Multilevel Integration Multilevel
    Integration
  • 4- The Original Programming Original
    Programming
1- The Player

1 - The Player option will display either a live feed or on-demand audio/video. A Live Player is designed to show a live broadcast.

A Full Player starts with the audio/video and the closed caption area, then adds an informational area where you can display your programming timetable or supporting presentation slides. The player is branded to resemble the design of your website.

Demo: Weslaco ISD
Weslaco displays a prominent link to a Full Player on their home page. Using Silverlight to stream the KWES Tv 17 channel they Full Player also displays the programming schedule.

2- The Full Integration

2 - The Full Integration option combines View Pages and players to create one view for your Main Board meetings, another for your Planning Board meetings, and another for your Community Development Board meetings. Or, you may choose to combine them all into a Sectioned View Page that organizes different meetings on one page.

The player that is designed for your Full Integration option has video and/or audio, jump-to navigation, closed captioning, and a document-viewing area. This unique combination of information is what Granicus calls your Integrated Public Record.

Demo: City of Rosemead
The City of Rosemead’s Full Integration seamlessly combines a Granicus View page into their site using an iFrame. This View Page also takes advantage of an additional feature to divide content into sections that can be expanded to browse the available archives.

3- The Multilevel Integration

3 - The Multilevel Integration option combines the Full Integration option with a media home page. This home page enables users to easily get to all your View Pages.

Advantage: Your most recent published meetings are readily available to viewers. We recommend this for agencies who anticipate many meetings and different meeting bodies that will be using Granicus solutions.

Demo: City of San Jose
Taking advantage of a host of additional features, the City of San Jose's solution uses multiple View Pages and Templates to guide their site visitors to high demand content as easily as possible. The Archives are broken into a section of recently archived content for each meeting body. To access older archives simply click the ‘View All” button to browse the complete archive for that meeting body.

4- The Original Programming

4 - The Original Programming option lets your users browse a one-page list of the player content available. There are no pop-up players included with this option.

The Original Programming option doesn’t display documents such as agendas or minutes alongside videos. Therefore, we recommend this to anyone who will be producing and showing non-meeting content.

Demo: City of Alexandria
City of Alexandria's video player page uses Granicus’ Original Programming Integration combined with customized sections and expandable tables.

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