Did you know?

Here's a neat tip.

If any of you are interested in using Heavy video content on your site and you'd rather display a nice image with description text than a video embed - you can. It's a pretty simple hack.

In short, instead of using the "embed" video code and adding class="husky", you use the rss image and text for that video, along with the actual video source from the embed and put it into an "href=". Add the class="husky" in the "href". And you're done.

You can obviously design and template it any way you want - the basics for what you need are there.

I've put together my own example below. Click on the image to launch the video:

The Burly Sports Show

Burly Sports: Nick Goes Nuts! Tempers flare on the Burly Sports when news anchor Nick Stevens realizes the teleprompter doesn't work, but he manages to wrap it smoothly despite technical difficulties.

CORUS RADIO IN CANADA LIVE WITH HUSKY!!

Corus Radio is the biggest network of radio stations in Canada. They have an awesome audience. Corus is embedding Heavy.com's video content across their male skewing radio-station web sites and wrapping them with Husky ads.

This brings up an interesting and perhaps unknown point: If you want any, or all of Heavy's video content for your site/blog, let us know - it's super simple to set up. If it has value for you, it's all yours for free. For anyone who doesn't already know, Husky was spun out of Heavy. Husky was the video ad technology across the entire Heavy Network. We got a lot of calls from publishers asking if they could use the technology, so we decided to spin it all out as a separate company.

I digress - GO AND CHECK OUT THE CORUS RADIO SITES!

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