Overview
The Uscreen Calendar is a powerful tool to help you engage your Members and build lasting habits around your content. It allows you to schedule content releases, showcase upcoming live events, and offer your audience a clear, organized way to follow your video programming.
With the Calendar, your Members can:
Track their video-watching progress ✅
Receive automatic mobile push notifications 📲
Calendar Progress Tracking
Both features help encourage return visits, build positive viewing habits, and increase engagement with your content.
Calendar empowers you, and your audience, to see a predefined schedule of videos, from the convenience the mobile apps or website. Calendar is a great way to keep your members engaged. It encourages them to return to see your latest and greatest scheduled content.
As another option to engage, your members can track their progress of "completed" videos.
Specifically, members can "complete" videos, when they watch them from the calendar. They will see a satisfying check ✅ when they watch the entire video, or manually press the "complete" button.
This helps your members track progress, show positive momentum, and build healthy habits... all while engaging with your video content, and coming back for more!
Note: When watching videos on mobile apps, they are automatically marked as completed, whereas on the web, users need to manually mark them as completed. This feature is intended to promote engagement and satisfaction with participation.
Tracking progress is available on Mobile Apps version 3.15 or later, released November 2023
Here are more details about the overall Calendar feature.
Calendar Mobile Push Notifications
The Uscreen Calendar is a power engagement and retention tool, especially for your mobile audience members.
You can configure push notifications to automatically remind your mobile audience about newly released content, upcoming live events, or scheduled calendar videos. These automatic calendar push notifications are an effective way to remind with your audience and increase engagement.
These calendar push notifications are automatic. They are separate from manually sending, or scheduling your marketing push notifications. These are a great way to save yourself time, since they are automatic, and based on your calendar content.
How to enable Calendar Mobile Push Notifications
Ensure that Calendar
Visit your admin Calendar
Select Edit mobile notifications
Select the types of notifications for your audience. Select from the predetermined list of options for Live Events, Published Videos, or Scheduled Videos
Published Videos refer to videos that are already published and available for viewing.
Scheduled Videos refer to videos that are yet to be released and are upcoming with a scheduled publication date in the video editor.
Click Save
The Uscreen system will automatically send the predetermined push notifications about your associated calendar events!
How your audience members receive notifications
Your mobile audience members receive push notifications if they enable them on their phone settings, and their Uscreen settings.
Ensure your mobile apps are version 3.14 or later, available September 22, 2023.
You may want to encourage your mobile audience to revisit their notification settings. Educate them on the benefits: always know about new content, like newly published videos, or live events starting soon.
