By recommending the most trending, engaging articles from around your site, Popular in the Community helps to promote and monetize your most popular content:
- Promoting your content by showcasing user-generated content
- Featuring a monetization component that generates shared revenue


Popular in the Community
Requirements
Popular in the Community requires the following:
- Popular in the Community must be enabled by your OpenWeb PSMPSM - Partner Success Manager
- Minimum of 10 articles with a Conversation embedded
- Defined
og:title
for each article - Defined
og:image
with a fully-qualified URL for each article
Implementation
You can add Popular in the Community on the following types of pages:
NOTE
You can also add Popular in the Community and a Conversation to an AMP page.
Embed with a Conversation
After your OpenWeb PSM has enabled Popular in the Community for your account, Popular in the Community appears above each Conversation. No additional coding is necessary.
Set a custom location
To define a custom location for Popular in the Community to appear, add the Popular in the Community <div>
to the page. Popular in the Community will appear in the location in which you place the <div>
.
The following table lists the different approaches to aligning Popular in the Community with the layout of your page.
Approach | Code | Explanation |
---|---|
Horizontal | <div data-spotim-module="pitc"></div> |
Vertical | <div data-spotim-module="pitc" data-vertical-view="true"></div> |
Double-decker | A horizontal instance of Popular in the Community appears both above and below the Conversation Contact your OpenWeb PSM for more information. |
Set recommendation categories
You can use the data-categories
attribute of the Popular in the Community <div>
to filter the categories of user-generated content to recommend. You can add multiple categories by separating each category with a comma.
IMPORTANT
As shown in the example below, be sure the categories you define in the
data-categories
attribute of the Popular in the Communitydiv
element match the values included in thedata-article-tags
launcher code attribute.
<div data-spotim-module="pitc" data-categories="ARTICLE_TOPIC1,ARTICLE_TOPIC2">
</div>
Embed without a Conversation
You can embed Popular in the Community on article pages that do not contain a Conversation.
- Add the launcher code.
<script
async
src="https://launcher.spot.im/spot/SPOT_ID"
data-spotim-module="spotim-launcher">
</script>
- Replace
SPOT_ID
with your Spot ID.
Use the following steps to locate your Spot ID:
   a. Log into your Admin Dashboard.
   b. Copy your Spot ID from the URL:https://admin.spot.im/spot/{SPOT_ID}/...
- In the location where Popular in the Community should appear, add the Popular in the Community
<div>
.
The following table lists the different approaches to aligning Popular in the Community with the layout of your page.
Approach | Code | Explanation |
---|---|
Horizontal | <div data-spotim-module="pitc"></div> |
Vertical | <div data-spotim-module="pitc" data-vertical-view="true"></div> |
Updated 2 months ago