WorldTV is pleased as punch to announce that our Embeddable Player is now ready!

Following on from our experiments creating an embeddable player for Techcrunch, our tireless programmers have been putting the finishes touches and tweaks to the first WorldTV ‘Widget’ which is available now as a new Tab in your Editor.

With this new Embeddable Player you can promote your WorldTV channel by adding it to web pages and blogs. You simply select a desired size and copy and paste the embed code into the HTML of your desired webpage.

At present the Player has one dynamic skin (design) which automatically brands the Player with your current channel logo (so a good excuse to give your logo some love and attention) and throws in a nice airy, cloud animation to be a little different from the rest. We will be introducing more skin choices including a basic traditional player in the very near future - with improved options to customize.

How does the embeddable player work in practice?

The WorldTV Widget is a miniature version of your channel and will play all the videos in your playlist back-to-back or randomly, according to how you have your channel set up. Another way of looking at it is that it’s a widget for sequencing a playlist of videos, and these can be videos from our supported sites (YouTube, Metacafe etc) or FLV files hosted on any web server, or webcam videos you’ve recorded using our Webcam record feature. If you have your channel set up with our partner Qik, you can stream live video from your mobile phone to your widget as well. So it has all the key functionality of our main player.

Unlike many other embeddable players ours is configured to track viewing statistics. This means that viewers watching your embeddable player will show up in the Statistics displayed in your Editor.

As we’ve said, this is a first pass at creating an embeddable player for WorldTV and we have lots planned in the way of different designs, functionality etc. We’re already working on these things, but wanted to get this out to you ASAP.

So, don’t be shy!  Give it try?

N.B. The embed code does not currently work on MySpace due to the way MySpace restricts use of the <iframe> tag. We’re working on a fix for this.