YouTube is a video-sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones.
You can easily upload and host your videos on Youtube and embed them in your Pixpa website. Embedded Youtube videos will play directly on your Pixpa website.
You only need a Google account to create a YouTube account so you can watch videos or create your own content. It is also the second largest search engine behind Google Search.
Main features of Youtube:
Users can search for and watch videos
Create a personal YouTube channel
Upload videos to your channel
Like/Comment/share other YouTube videos
Users can subscribe/follow other YouTube channels and users
Create playlists to organize videos and group videos together
YouTube is a video platform that's driven by two types of users:
Vimeo
Embed and play Vimeo videos on your website
Vimeo is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices. Vimeo provides its subscribers with tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting, enterprise software solutions, as well as the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals.
Pixpa allows you to embed your Vimeo video on your Pixpa website using Vimeo embed code.
Photo Gallery Apps
Create personalized mobile photo galleries for clients
The Mobile Gallery Apps platform enables you to create personalized mobile gallery apps for your clients. Share your work, build your brand, deliver added value and impress your clients.
Create a mobile gallery app to show a sneak peek of a photo shoot or share highlights from a project you have done. Each app contains social media sharing tools and your branding and contact information.
Impress your clients by gifting them a mobile gallery app at the end of a project, or you can even charge a fee for them as a value-added service. Mobile apps are a powerful tool for your clients to share their images with family and friends. They are also an excellent marketing tool for you as your brand gets exposure and your contact information is shared whenever the mobile app gets shared.
Blog
Publish blogs on your website
Integrated Blogs let you showcase your work and tell the stories behind it in one seamless experience.
You can add multiple blogs to your Pixpa website.
Highlights of Blogging in Pixpa:
Create blog posts with images, videos, and other embeds.
Duplicate any blog post with a single click.
Add a banner to your blog listing page/post page.
Publish your blog post or save it as a draft.
Schedule a blog post to be published on a specified date.
Choose from several layouts for your blog listing page and post page. Layouts are fully customizable and you can finetune all visual elements of any layout such as image aspect ratios, image radius, button styles, fonts, and much more.
Structure your blog using categories and tags.
Create blog authors and attach an author to any blog post.
Add an image gallery to your blog post.
Enable users to comment on the blog post using inbuilt Pixpa Comments or Disqus.
Get your blog RSS feed link for syndicating or sharing your blog feed.
Blog RSS Feed
Enable readers to subscribe to your blog RSS feed.
The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a web feed that enables website visitors to know the updates of your website.
Your Pixpa website has a built-in dynamic RSS feed for your blog, which updates itself automatically whenever you publish a new blog post. It makes it easier for readers to get the information they're seeking without wasting time browsing the World Wide Web for it. And it helps bloggers, website owners, etc. build a content marketing strategy while increasing web traffic in the process.
People use RSS feeds to keep up with their favorite blogs. It is important for your site because you can allow your readers to subscribe to your content.
The RSS feed for each of your blogs is automatically generated so that site visitors can follow your blog using feed readers.
Image Watermarks
Use watermarks to protect and brand your website gallery images.
Secure your images with watermarks and protect them/claim ownership. If you have not secured your images, there are chances of any theft or unapproved use.
Pixpa enables you to add a visible watermark (your name, brand name, logo, etc) to all your images at the time of upload. You can choose between adding a text watermark or an image watermark for your images. The watermark will be added over the images.
They are only applied to web versions of images used on your website. Original images (used in client galleries and e-commerce galleries) are not watermarked. You can add multiple watermarks in your website and you can choose to apply any watermark in individual galleries.
Website Prefooter
Used to show different content above the website footer
The website pre-footer can be used to show content like Instagram feed, business contact information, newsletter box, working hours, etc in the footer area. This will be shown above the footer across all your website pages.
As the pre-footer appears on all your website pages, any change that you make on your pre-footer reflects on all your pages.
Pixpa enables you to hide the pre-footer on specific pages of your website.
Website Galleries
Exhibit your images/videos and engage your website visitors using Galleries
A Gallery is the foundation of any portfolio website.
The key use of galleries is to show multiple images/videos/Text slides at once. Exhibit your images/videos and engage your website visitors using Galleries. Once you add a gallery you can customize it to achieve the look you want and showcase your work in a holistic manner.
Present your work in exactly the way you want with several layouts, displays, and advanced styling options for galleries. Choose from 15+ gallery layouts.
Highlights:
Global gallery presets and the ability to override them.
Lightbox Image Viewer.
Use slideshow for your images.
Move or Copy Images between Galleries.
Smart Image Uploader.
Fast Delivery with CDN.
Responsive Image Delivery.
Image Compression.
Unique Link For Each Gallery Image.
Cover Banners.
Social Sharing.
Yumpu
Use Yumpu to embed PDF file on your Pixpa website
Pixpa does not allow you to upload PDF files directly to the studio however you can use thirrd party apps like Yumpu to upload your pdf file and embed the same in your Pixpa website. The YUMPU Media Publisher turns the PDFs into ePapers.
Highlights:
You can choose from different templates for embedding your PDF.
Add tags/keywords to your publications.
Once you upload your PDF, you can choose to make it a downloadable or shareable file.
Embed any video/images/audio/external URLs into your PDF.
Choose to make your online PDF to be flippable or scrollable.
Enable zoom functionality over your PDF on a mobile, desktop, or tablet.
Spotify
Add Spotify music albums to your Pixpa website
Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. It is an audio streaming and media services provider. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists.
It introduced a Spotify Apps service that made it possible for third-party developers to design applications that could be hosted within the Spotify computer software. The applications provided features such as synchronized lyrics, music reviews, and song recommendations. It has also introduced a "Spotify Play Button", an embeddable music player that can be added to blogs, websites, or social media profiles, that lets visitors listen to a specific song, playlist, or album without leaving the page.
SoundCloud
Host audio/music files on your Pixpa website using SoundCloud
Soundcloud is the best way to host your audio files just like Youtube/Vimeo is for video files. Pixpa allows you to embed your SoundCloud audio or music file on your Pixpa website in three ways.
Soundcloud is free for audio files totaling up to 3 hours. That’s more than enough for several albums for your audio.
Downloadable Files
Upload files that you want to make available for download within your Pixpa website
Pixpa allows to upload the files that you want to make available for download (for example – your resume or any tear sheets) only within your Pixpa website. You can upload, copy and use the link, or delete the file.
The file size should be less than 20MB. Only JPEG / PNG / GIF / PDF / ZIP files are allowed. Upload important files like your resume or tear sheets etc.
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