Article-to-video player is a player, which can convert title images to nice-looking Video Summaries of the entire article to help people watch instead of reading.

To create such player go to Players & Widgets > Player Settings and click Create Player. In the popup menu select Article-to-video player as shown below:

Player Settings

After the player is created it's needed to set up its settings. To do so follow the instruction below.

Player name — Any name for your convenience.

Player template — Video or Story. Video is a classical template, Story is like Instagram-Story look.

CSS-Selector — A CSS-Selector of the image where you want to play the player. A2V Player is added only over the image

Play button settings — Play button style and appearance

Content Style — Choose an animation template you want your videos look like

Margins — How you want to show or hide margins if the video size is not equal to the image size used as a container

Enable stock files selection — Can A2V use stock videos or only should use article's media files

Enable Slide Animation — a TV noise can be added to a video for more video look

API Generation — On this option if you don't want to place the player directly to the article script, but if you want to use API to generate videos and than place them to the page.

Enable text-to-speech — If you don't need a voiceover you can off this option.

Adding the code to a website

Adding code directly to HTML

👉 After you set up a player you can paste the code to any (or to all) pages of your website by clicking Get Code button.

Adding code via Google Ad Manager

Code can be added to a website via Google Ad Manager. To do this make the following steps:

Go to Delivery > Orders and press New order to make an order from scratch. If you already have running orders, you can skip this step
Select the order you want to use and press New line item button to create a new line item.
You need to choose a Display ad type to deliver the code to the page (it's ok, because Video format will be added as demand source to the player inside of it settings)
Fill up all needed fields in the line item settings. For creative sizes you can select a 1x1 creative size. All other options can be set up on your needs.
After line item is created you need to add a creative to it. First, choose a Third party creative.
After selection you will be able to add a code to a third-party creative form. Just place a code as a standard code type as shown below:

After saving you need to run the line item in Delivery menu of Google Ad Manager.

Note, that it can take a few minutes to wait until video will appear on the page.