Skip to main content
Version: 11.7.0

Wicket Labs on iOS

Wicket Labs is an audience insights platform for video, and offers products like the "Wicket Scoreboard".

To generate these insights, a video player emits playback events to a third-party database service (e.g. Firebase). Wicket Labs provides guidelines on how to format these playback events. Wicket Labs then pulls the data from the selected third-party database service, and integrates it into their platform.

Connecting Wicket Labs with THEOplayer​

An integration with Wicket Labs can be integrated on top of THEOplayer.

  1. As a customer of Wicket Labs, you need to verify that Wicket Labs can ingest data from your selected database solution (e.g. Firebase). (It should be noted that Wicket Labs does not provide its own database service to store playback events. Instead, Wicket Labs plugs into your database service.)
  2. As a customer of Wicket Labs and THEOplayer, you need to emit the playback events (as defined per Wicket Labs) to your database service. In other words, you need to hook into certain events emitted by THEOplayer, reformat them, and re-emit them to your database service.
  • To facilitate the implementation of Wicket Labs [related to THEOplayer], Wicket Labs and THEOplayer collaborate on publicly available code samples. These code samples are published as Git repositories on https://github.com/THEOplayer.
  • Developers are free to do their custom integration of Wicket Labs and THEOplayer, or may modify the publicly available code samples.

THEOplayer and Wicket Labs currently do not host a sample implementation for iOS or tvOS on Github.

Developers are encouraged to use our sample implementation for the Web SDK as a reference for the order and format of the playback events, together with Wicket Labs' guidelines on setting up Firebase, as a starting point. Additionally, developers are encouraged to reach out to their contacts at THEOplayer and/or Wicket Labs if they need assistance, which could prompt THEOplayer and Wicket Labs into publishing a sample implementation on Github.