Boom TICK CAPTCHA Widget

Website owners, bloggers, forums and brands can now protect their sites from bots while advertising with a touch of Boom, by downloading our new video-centric TICK CAPTCHA widget.

Video killed the annoying CAPTCHA

TICK Captcha is a new human video verification widget made by Boom Technology.
CAPTCHA’s don’t have to consist of annoying gibberish that your visitors struggle to type in. Boom have banished those hard-to-read squiggles and replaced them with bright, shiny and newly branded video content that doubles up as advertising. Visitors can watch the video and answer questions to verify they are human to keep your site fully secure and bot-busted.

Monetization and advertising with TICK CAPTCHA

TICK CAPTCHA opens up fresh new opportunities for site owners, forums and bloggers to monetize and for brands to advertise with increased brand recall.
Downloading the TICK widget gives you maximum authentication while also creating a fun, interactive and engaging user experience that can bring in new revenue, enhance your brand and reinforce brand ubiquity through video verification.

Protect forms with TICK CAPTCHA

TICK comes in the form of a clean, sleek and customizable widget that can be easily integrated into the form section on your website, blog or forum.

TICK protects the following forms:
• Register Form
• Post Form
• Contact Us Form
• Search Form
• Recover Lost Password Form
• Blog comments Form
• CMS comments Form

How to install TICK CAPTCHA

You can easily download and install TICK today by following these guidelines:
1. Download and unzip the tick-captcha-for-vbulletin-50.zip file for vBulletin 5.0.
2. Copy the files and directories from upload directory into the root directory of your vBulletin.
3. Open the control panel of your vBulletin (default YOUR_DOMEN/admincp/).
4. Open "Plugins & Hooks" -> "Manage Products" page from the left menu.
5. Click on "Add/Import Product".
6. On the top of the page, in the field "EITHER upload the XML file from your computer" choose the file tickcaptcha-for-vbulletin.xml.
7. Press "Import" button.
8. Choose "Settings" -> "Options" page from the left menu.
9. Select TICK Captcha Settings in the list and click on "Edit Settings" button.
10. Copy your "TICK Captcha Unique Key" and paste it to "TICK Captcha Unique Key" field in plugin settings.
11. If you don’t have "TICK Captcha Unique Key," you can get this key by creating a Publisher account at Boom-tick.com (http://www.boom-tick.com/register?pl=vb) and you will be emailed you TICK Captcha Unique Key.
12. Enter TICK Captcha Width & Height (minimum size is 450 X 400).
13. To save your settings click on "Save" button.
14. Go to the "Settings" -> "Human Verification Manager" page from the left menu and select TICK Captcha from radio button group.
15. To save your settings click on "Save" button.

Hooray! You’re all TICKed in!

If you need any help with these instructions, drop us an email at: support@boomvideo.com.au and we'll be with you in a TICK.

Frequently Asked Questions

What on earth does CAPTCHA mean anyway?
CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." It’s is a type of challenge-response test used to ensure a visitor to a website is human.

How does TICK Captcha work?
TICK Captcha uses the sophistication of video as a medium to verify humans from bots. The user simply plays the video on the TICK Captcha widget, watches the video and answers simple questions to verify that they are human.

Sounds good. You mentioned monetization – So, how does the publisher make money?
This is the really clever part. Site owners and publishers who choose to integrate TICK into their website make money through a monthly-reported standard revenue share between Boom Collective and the publisher, based on the video views completed through TICK. Publishers get paid monthly via Paypal or directly to their bank accounts.

Does TICK CAPTCHA require Flash?
Boom’s TICK CAPTCHA has two modes: HTML5 and Flash. CAPTCHA loader determines the mode automatically and shows the appropriate CAPTCHA.

Which browsers supports TICK CAPTCHA?
Our CAPTCHA works in all modern browsers such as Chrome, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera.

Is TICK Captcha secure and safe?
Completely. TICK Captcha has been tested and is totally protected from bots. We have successfully integrated TICK onto numerous leading publishers who are all stoked with the results.

How does the integration of TICK Captcha on my site work?
The integration process is super quick and simple. Our team of developers will work with all site owners and publisher to ensure this is as seamless as possible, without disrupting the normal operations of your site.

How can my brand advertise on the TICK platform?
Brands who are interested in leveraging the TICK Captcha advantage for advertising are encouraged to contact the Boom Sales Teams. Please get in touch via our contact page – we’d love to hear from you and will assist you through the process.

I’m really keen! How can I try out BOOM’s TICK CAPTCHA?
You can try a demo of TICK CAPTCHA to see how much it rocks your world.

To find out more about Boom’s TICK CAPTCHA or to download now, visit: www.boom-tick.com.