Understanding Your Media Ratings

by Chris

We've had some questions about how ratings work on KickApps-powered media, so here's a quick overview:

First, the easy part: each registered member can vote once on each video, photo, blog, and audio file. Non-members cannot vote on content until they join your community.

Now the interesting part: as an affiliate, you can make power ratings on members' media from the Affiliate Center. To do so:

  1. Log in to the Affiliate Center
  2. Select the desired site, if you've created more than one
  3. Browse to Manage Your Community » Media Management
  4. Click the "Details" link for a desired media item
  5. In the media details page, you'll see an option to "Add your rating" – click on the stars to give the media a rating
  6. Now here's the good part: do it again!

As an affiliate webmaster, you can rate media as many times as you want. Each click on those stars counts as 10 ratings.

Have an important video that you want at the top of the list? Click that 5 star rating a few times and it's there! Is that annoying tune stuck in your head? Bump it out of the spotlight with a couple of one-star ratings.

Power ratings, are your tool to bring your best media to the top of Widgets and lists, showcasing your most interesting content.

Did you enjoy this tutorial? Have questions, comments, or want to submit one of your own? Contact us at support@kickapps.com or Post a message on our related Message Board discussion – we want to hear from you.