MN Open Web Components

MediaNet's Web Components provide the simple, quickest and easiest way to add engaging digital content to your website. Take advantage of MediaNet’s trusted MN Open technology platform, a library of 7 million songs and music videos and a feature-rich set of components to keep your users on your site.

With MediaNet's Web Components, all you have to do to is choose your configuration and then copy and paste small code snippets, without any coding experience, to dynamically display music content wherever you put them on your site.

Benefits

More time on your site with more page views

MediaNet has created a suite of web components that seamlessly integrate in your site or blog delivering
a web of engaging content that allows your users to sample and access digital media

MediaNet’s suite of Web Components fits into three categories

Contextual Web Components 

A great way to capture the attention of your end users with smart and relevant content. Contextual components use our new state of the art Contextual Matching Engine (CxME), which reads and analyzes your content and returns intelligent media matches to end users.


Media Matcher (View Demo)

Automatically matches MediaNet’s catalog against existing content on your website.

  • Contextually matches artists, albums, and songs to your existing page content (anything from a blog to a news article)
  • Results are ordered by relevance to the page content
  • End users can sample and purchase albums or songs directly
  • The number of results presented is configurable
  • Links to artist biography or album review tabs on the Media Explorer Format: suitable for a column left or right or inside your main content area
  • Format: suitable for a column left or right or inside your main content area

Media Links (View Demo)

Hyperlinks references to artists, albums and songs within existing content on your page

  • Automatically creates hyperlinks within your page to artist, albums, and songs identified within your page (and for which no hyperlinks already exist)
  • Links to the artist biography or album review tabs on the Media Explorer (Media Explorer is currently required)
  • Follows your site’s styles (uses your CSS)
  • Format: adds links (anchor tags) to your inline page copy

Relevant Media Search (View Demo)

Integrates into your site’s existing search and returns media results alongside your regular search results

  • Results presented for most relevant matched content across artists, albums, and songs accounting for misspellings and other errors
  • The number of results presented is configurable
  • Allows sampling and purchase of the albums or songs directly
  • Link to the artist biography or album review tabs on the Media Explorer
  • Format: suitable for a column left or right or inside of your main content area


Discovery Web Components 

Extend your site’s “stickiness” by letting your end users find and discover new music all while
visiting more pages.


Media Explorer (View Demo)

Dynamic display of music-related information with
purchasable media

  • Multi-tab component provides artist biographies, discographies, and album reviews
  • Artist biography tab includes the artist’s top album and top songs
  • User can sample and purchase album or songs directly
  • Cornerstone of the media content discovery - a must for most integrations.
  • Format: 600px wide, full content page integration

Media Charts (View Demo)

Charts of our top selling content to entice music discovery, sampling and purchases

  • Sample and purchase the top albums and songs download during the previous week
  • Top albums and songs are generated from our entire network and updated automatically once a week
  • The number of results presented is configurable (display 5, 10, 12…)
  • Link to the artist biography or album review tab on the Media Explorer widget
  • Format: suitable for a column left or right or inside of your main content area


Commerce Web Components 

Users do not have to leave your site to purchase and download music and media content with an easy-to-use, efficient and full-featured ecommerce experience.


Media Purchase (View Demo)

All purchases are fulfilled through this automatically configured and setup component which appears in its dedicated secure window.

  • Includes shopping cart, up-sell/suggestion engine, purchase, transaction confirmation page and email
  • Branded with your company logo
  • Download Manager browser plug-in available within order completion page
  • Download History, concurrent downloads, smart directories
  • Downloaded songs auto-registered with iTunes or Windows Media Player
  • Secure (SSL) and scalable
  • Support for all major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express)
  • Format: 783px in its own window

Cart Indicator Icon:

Quickly add a shopping cart indicator to your site.

    • Can be placed anywhere on your site (top right corner recommended)
    • Only shows up when user has an item in the cart
    • Allows users to access the cart at any time and from any page on your site
    • Format: 22x18 image link
Get Started Now!

How to get started
  1. Go to our sign up page to create an account
  2. We review your information, then send you the MN Open API configurations and documentation
  3. Follow the directions and integrate to your site or application
Web Component Documentation
Implementation documentation
is updated as needed. Our
customers are notified upon the
release of new documents.
Implementation Guide
Free Song of the Day Widget!

Also learn about
MN Open API
The MN Open Web Component library is a great example of what the MN Open API can do.
A REST based HTTP service that is full featured and fast to implement, your media needs can be met by this enterprise solution. More information on MediaNet’s MN Open API