Player API

The "Related Videos" feature uses the following logic to populate videos for your account: 

1. Display name 
2. Tags 
3. Custom fields 
4. Short description 

The order above describes the importance given to the various fields for the purpose of finding similar videos. In other words, videos that have the same display name will rank higher than videos that don't but have same tags, and so on and so forth. If no videos match, the related videos are ordered by the date they were added to your account.

If no videos match the values, other videos from the account will be displayed in an indeterminate order.

It is not possible to select which videos display in the player's "Related Videos" End Screen from within the Brightcove Video Cloud, but a developer can control what displays at runtime by creating a custom solution using the Brightcove Player API.

The MenuModule of the Player API offers a way to be informed when these videos are to be requested and populated within the menu screen, through a callback function passed to the player. A developer can choose to replace or append lists of videos to those shown in the menu screen when this callback is invoked.

For more specific information and samples, please read our article on Customizing the Menu's Additional Media