Unlock questions as viewers watch

When an article carries a video, the gated card can ask about the video as well as the text. Each video question opens at the moment the video gives its answer, so viewers are never asked about a part they haven't watched.

What you need on the page

• An auto widget in the article, showing the gated card. See How the gated card unlocks questions.
• The player on the page itself. Lexy looks for the video in your page, including inside the player's own components. It can't see into a frame served from another site.
• A streamed video. Lexy recognises a video by its stream, an HLS playlist (a .m3u8 address). A video played from a single file, such as an .mp4, adds no questions.
• A few paragraphs of text. The card doesn't show on a page with very little text.

Which players work

If the reader's browser can't reach the player, video questions don't stay locked: they open.

How questions unlock

• Pinned to a second. Each question is pinned to the second where the video answers it, and opens once the viewer has watched that far.
• The furthest point counts. Lexy follows how far the viewer has watched. Pausing keeps it, and so does coming back to the page later.
• The main video counts. On a page with several videos, Lexy follows the biggest one on screen that is playing. A small muted player, or one pinned to a corner, counts for little.
• One video, one set of questions. The same video on several pages carries the same questions.

A page with text and video

One set of questions covers the page, shared by which of the two carries more of the story.

• The card says both. Above the headline it says From this story and its video. Before the reader starts, the count says 6 questions unlock as you read or watch. Part way, the line under the count names what's left, such as 3 more unlock as you watch.
• Each one opens its own. Reading doesn't unlock video questions, and watching doesn't unlock article questions. Scrolling while the video plays on screen doesn't count as reading.
• The quiz takes turns. Questions alternate between the video and the article, starting with whichever the reader turned to first.
• Go to the answer. Each question carries a From the video or From the article chip. From the video shrinks the quiz to a Back to the quiz button and plays the video from just before the moment. From the article highlights the passage.
• Two scores. The final score shows how the reader did on the video and on the article.

When Lexy reads the questions aloud, she doesn't listen for a spoken answer while the video plays on screen. Tapping always works.

Common questions

Why are there no questions from my video?

Check that the player sits on the page itself and that it streams the video as HLS. A video played from a single file, or inside a frame from another site, adds no questions; the card asks about the article only.

Can a page with only a video have a card?

Only with some text beside it. A video with a few paragraphs about it works. A video under a headline alone doesn't show the card.

Does skipping the video lock the reader out?

No. Article questions open as they read. Once they have answered everything that is open, the quiz offers Unlock anyway for the rest.