Closed Bug 835387 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

[Flicks] Create Video Snippet for Flicks R2

Categories

(Snippets :: Campaign, task)

Product:
Snippets
Component:
Campaign
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: tleingruber, Assigned: wbowden)

References

Details

We'd like to have a video snippet scheduled & made for our push at Flicks R2, February 13th. Duration: ? ***Assets Video(s): The video will be one of our upcoming promotional videos. Would it be possible to rotate up to 3 videos? (Delivery: February 11th) Icon: Please use the Flicks-2013 icon that we already have. Link needed Copy: Would it make sense to use what we had already written for the R1 snippet, when it was supposed to be a video-snippet? Localisation: This should run in all locales. Once the copy is locked we need to localize things. Winston - Possible to get this slot? Also, could you please assist me with things that need to be done now? E.g. do we need additional bugs? Dev bug? Thanks all.
So does this override the R2 snippet we've already filed implementation bugs for and localized?
Chelsea, no, I haven't noticed those. Could you please send me a link? I don't know how-to discover them, simple search didn't work for me.
you are cc'd on the bug and we discussed it last week: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835387
Chelsea - Thanks. Yes, I remember that bug, but didn't remember it's #. I thought I'd leave it up to Matej to use what we already got in there or write something new, specifically on the promo videos maybe. What I didn't remember was that the copy was already approved for R2 and L10n on it's way. So in this case: Copy is done. :) Is there another implementation bug for this R2 video snippet already? If so, I can close this as duplicate... Fix & approved copy as by bug 821714: **** "Celebrity judges and great prizes. <a href="http://www.firefoxflicks.org>Learn more about Firefox Flicks,</a> our global video contest about the power of mobile." ****
(In reply to Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) from comment #5) > Chelsea - Thanks. Yes, I remember that bug, but didn't remember it's #. I > thought I'd leave it up to Matej to use what we already got in there or > write something new, specifically on the promo videos maybe. What I didn't > remember was that the copy was already approved for R2 and L10n on it's way. > So in this case: Copy is done. :) > > Is there another implementation bug for this R2 video snippet already? If > so, I can close this as duplicate... > > Fix & approved copy as by bug 821714: > **** > "Celebrity judges and great prizes. <a > href="http://www.firefoxflicks.org>Learn more about Firefox Flicks,</a> our > global video contest about the power of mobile." > **** I think that's actually the copy for the R1 snippet. Here's the approved copy for R2: You're the director. Mobile is the star. <a href="http://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org> Enter Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile.</a> I'm OK leaving it as is, but since it's going to be a video snippet, I wonder if "Learn more" is a better CTA. In that case I would combine the two (and since we already have the "Learn more" line localized, it wouldn't mean that much more work, we'd just have to make sure they're combined correctly): You're the director. Mobile is the star. <a href="http://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org> Learn more about Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile.</a>
So a lot of locales have already translated this copy for the R2 snippet: en-US : You're the director. Mobile is the star. <a href="%s">Enter Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile</a>. http://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~pascalc/langchecker/?action=api&file=snippets.lang&stringid=ffa3963c918b67fb63661a3e0f6416d859decbb7&plaintext Because the snippets are all localized as one line (not two lines - so we'd know which line is which) I don't think we can combine them accurately. So either we leave it as is or we have a third snippet localized.
I'm fine to keep as is if everyone else is. Thanks.
Okay then: Video(s): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818899 Icon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818921 Copy: You're the director. Mobile is the star. <a href="%s">Enter Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile</a>. Localization: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830807 - link in Comment 1 Winston, I guess the only thing Tobi needs is direction on which webdev bugs to file for the video itself.
Depends on: 830807, 818921
Also, here's a link to the R1/R2 snippet implementation bug for reference. This replaces the copy-only snippet we were going to run (assuming there is dev time for the video) otherwise, back to copy only :)
Thanks Chelsea!
Hi Winston, hi all: Let's make this snippet happen! Here's a summary of all assets: - Icon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818921 - Localized copy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830807 - Videos: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818899 Comments on videos: - There are 3 different videos, each subtitled for 5 different locales (EN-US, DE, FR, ES, PT). - If possible, we'd like to rotate all three videos. Copy always stays the same. - If roation is not possible then I "randomly" pick the video titled "Ic" to be used (Actually it's my personal favorite). Sounds good?
(In reply to Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) from comment #13) > Hi Winston, hi all: > > Let's make this snippet happen! Here's a summary of all assets: > - Icon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818921 > - Localized copy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830807 > - Videos: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818899 > > Comments on videos: > - There are 3 different videos, each subtitled for 5 different locales > (EN-US, DE, FR, ES, PT). > - If possible, we'd like to rotate all three videos. Copy always stays the > same. > - If roation is not possible then I "randomly" pick the video titled "Ic" to > be used (Actually it's my personal favorite). I like them all, so I'm fine with whichever one we choose, I just think that "Ic" suffers the most in translation, so if these are going to be localized, I'd suggest one of the others if we're only showing one.
Hi Winston! Are we good to go? What needs to happen now?
+Chris More Hi Chris - Would you be able to move this forward? Thanks a lot. +Rainer Hi Rainer - I'm not sure how this'll work now, but I think I got a big chuck of video work here that needs to be done (sorry): Assuming that we can have 3 videos, each in 5 versions, we need all those 15 videos to be converted to the "usual" web format, uploaded onto the Mozilla video servers, and all with link-names that make sense. Could you do that?
tbx: Just need to verify that this snippet will be the normal out-of-the-box video snippet that we have done before, but just with the flicks related videos. All we need is the URLs for the 15 videos in this bug and we can copy/paste the snippet 15 times and adjust the locale and URL of the video individually.
I can convert and upload them, where would I find these 15 video mentioned?
working on it.
Just to repeat and be ultra clear: 15 snippets, 3 types, 5 locales in EN-US, DE, FR, ES, PT. Strings for these 5 locales can be found here: http://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~pascalc/langchecker/?action=api&file=snippets.lang&stringid=ffa3963c918b67fb63661a3e0f6416d859decbb7&plaintext Each locale will have the same text regardless of which 3 videos are displayed. Tobias: When should the snippets be released, what Firefox versions, and how long should they run for?
Chris, - Yes, each of the 3 videos will have the same copy, locales in 5 languages - I really can't say about the Firefox versions, you please decide. Of course, from my side: The more eyeballs, the better. - We'd like them to go live as soon as they are ready - Duration: Would 3 weeks be possible? We're happy about whatever we can get though.
Winston can you confirm the schedule? After that we can assign to mkelly to implement.
Flags: needinfo?(wbowden)
Hi all - Good to move forward and post when they're ready. Let's schedule to run until the end of March.
Flags: needinfo?(wbowden)
Great! Mkelly - Good to implement?
Assignee: wbowden → mkelly
Unless I'm missing them, we still need: - Text for the tweet share button. - A link to use for sharing on Facebook and Twitter - An external link plus text (we might be able to reuse the text from the last video snippet, which was "Visit firefoxflicks.org") that appears above the social buttons in the snippet.
Assignee: mkelly → tleingruber
Examples from last time: - Tweet text (try to keep this under 125 characters in all locales): What if companies tracked you offline like they do online? This winning #Firefox Flicks video has the answer. Via @Firefox - Share Link: http://mzl.la/JSGZHP - External link: https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org - External link text: Visit firefoxflicks.org
thanks, mike. Good catch. CCing Carmen. She can help with share content.
Thanks Mike - Since the video itself excist to promote the website, I think the "share link" can point to https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org , just like the "external link". - Do you know how the Facebook-share-part works? If I remember correctly we can't specify copy for Facebook, as they just take the websites' meta info. That's ok, but I don't know about the actual Facebook-share-link. Hi Carmen! Would be great if you could help us on the Twitter share text. I'm afraid we'll need to localize it then. This is our general copy: "You're the director. Mobile is the star. <a href="%s">Enter Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile</a>." Maybe we could simply use that for the tweet copy as well??
(In reply to Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) from comment #30) > - Do you know how the Facebook-share-part works? If I remember correctly we > can't specify copy for Facebook, as they just take the websites' meta info. > That's ok, but I don't know about the actual Facebook-share-link. Correct, the share link works fine as it did before, but we can't specify the test used.
Since we used the copy "you're the director, mobile is the star" above for a Tweet previously, we could just use that copy for the share as well. One caveat, I don't know the length of the copy in other locales - it would have to be less than 140 characters including the link.
Carmen - I realize it says "... OUR global film contest..." - This won't make sense when tweeted though? Would you know of something else that we already have translated?
Tobi - not sure why "our film contest" doesn't make sense - we've used it several times previously. We have nothing else translated.
Carmen - I was thinking that if a random person tweets: "...Enter Firefox Flicks, our global video contest about the power of mobile..." than it's kind of wrong because it's not the random persons' video contest? On the other hand if you see everyone who tweets ar part of the "community" then... yes, it's our contest :) I'll prepare the l10n list and post it here in a few.
Carmen - Please confirm that you're happy with this: Twitter share copy (in the same languages as in comment 7): https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tbx-l10n-flicks-r2-snippet-social-copy My understanding is that we have the videos in 5 locales, but 36 locales overall or so. If there's no specific video for the locale then fallback = EN-US video. Do we have everything together now?
The EN one is fine, I can't comment on the other languages :)
Carmen: Yes, sure. But just so you saw it, I merged "Firefox Flicks" into @FirefoxFlicks and added URLs in the end wherever possible. OK - Social copy is ready. All done? I can haz implementation? :)
Mkelly: (as by IRC conversation) Please post the entire interface copy here, so I can double check on things and use it for further translations.
Hi Mkelly, by when will you have time to work on this again? (You told me on IRC but I'm not sure anymore) By today?
I should be able to look at this sometime this week.
Assignee: tleingruber → mkelly
Thanks mkelly.
The snippets have been created and uploaded to the production server under "Flicks 2013 Launch Video". They're set to go out to all GA browsers currently. Winston can enable them at his convenience. There's 15 total, with 5 locales (en-US, fr, es, pt-BR, and de) and 3 videos. Tobi: A few of the locales (fr and de, I believe) have tweet strings that are longer than a tweet with the link included. I've kept them that way because I don't think it's a big enough issue to block these snippets from going out; users can just edit the text. In the future, we should aim for a limit of 120 characters or less for tweets to account for space for the URL. Let me know if you need anything else from me. :)
Assignee: mkelly → wbowden
Sounds great, thanks Mike! Tweet copy: I thought I had ran all the translations through a char-count, but well, maybe not. Winston: Looks like we're ready to go :)
Awesome. I'll push these live today.
I specifically remember these snippets going live. :D
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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