Storyly Documentation

# Core concepts

# Stories and Story Groups

Stories are full-screen media that can be images, GIFs, or videos. Regular image and GIF stories are displayed for 7 seconds, and videos are displayed for 15 seconds.

Video streaming can be enabled in a special story type called IVoD (Interactive Video on Demand). They can be up to 30 minutes long.

Each story has a unique identifier, a title (set to the story group’s title by default), a media component, an index to the position where it is in the story group, and seen/unseen information to enable end-users to continue viewing the story group where they left off.

Story groups are used to categorize stories. A story group contains up to 100 stories. Since IVoD is a special type, an IVoD story fits in a single-story group with no other stories in it.

Each story group has a unique identifier, a title, an icon (shown in Storyly bar), an index to the position where it is in the Storyly bar, seen/unseen information to differentiate the completely watched stories and the stories in it. Story groups in Storyly view are dynamically ordered. When a user watches all stories in a story group, that group is placed at the end of the bar unless it is pinned.

# Instances

Multiple Storyly views can be added to various pages of your apps. Multi-instances provide different stories and story groups in different places.

# Call-To-Actions

Buttons or swipe-ups can be added to stories in order to redirect the end-user to an in-app page or outlink.

# Interactive Components

Interactive components such as;

  • emoji reaction bars
  • polls
  • multiple-choice questions
  • countdowns (with reminders)
  • rating sliders

can be added to stories.

# Analytics

Storyly Dashboard provides engagement metrics regarding how your users are interacting with your stories. Metrics can be seen on the rich analytics dashboard such as Clicks, CTR, completions, and many more to compare your story performances and take quick actions.

Storyly SDK also provides the ability to send these metrics to any analytics tool you are already using.

# Targeting

Storyly SDK gives you the ability to show different stories to different segments of users. You can set your labels for the stories based on your user segments without sharing any user data. You can pass your segments while initializing the Storyly SDK such as newcomers, location, man, woman and so on.

# Personalization

You can create templates in Storyly Studio and fill the templates from Storyly SDK. To increase interaction with the users, Storyly creates Personalized Stories automatically and you can create personal offers by his or her name of a specific user.