Setting up Broadcast Live webhooks lets you receive notifications about stream events.

New Feature

Webhooks allow you to automate your workflow for Broadcast Live events by sending notifications to a designated URL endpoint when specific events occur, such as stream creation or streams going live.

Possible Webhook Events:

• Stream created
• Stream deleted
• Stream go live
• Stream transitioned
• Stream updated

You can now apply the placement ID and placement embed ID metrics to reports.

New Features

The placement ID metric can now be added when creating a Custom Report and querying data through Data Sharing.

The placement embed ID metric can now be added when querying data through Data Sharing.

Track detailed viewer behavior and content consumption through comprehensive CDN play session data.

New Feature

You can now analyze viewer engagement through the Server-Side Play Session dataset, available in Data Sharing.

This dataset contains rows of data with attributes that pertain to a specific user watching a specific video fetched from the JWP content delivery network (CDN).

The JWP dashboard's List Type feature provides you greater flexibility to display content on your app's landing page.

New Feature

Previously, menu items on the landing page were limited to playlists in a grid view. Now, List Type also allows you to display single media items from the landing page, helping you control your content visualization.

This update enables you to show series, hubs, static pages, and other media as library menu items. 

For more information, learn how to select a list type (step 5) when adding an app library. 

You can now apply the ad viewability rate metric to reports.

New Feature

The ad viewability rate metric can now be added when creating a Custom Report and querying data through Data Sharing. This metric provides insight into how many ads are viewable of all ads served.

In Android SDK 4.18.4, a critical security update improving the safety of local content handling has been released.

Bug Fix

We have released a critical security update that enhances the safety of local content handling within the app. This update mitigates potential risks and improves overall application security. 

We strongly encourage all users to upgrade to this latest version to benefit from these improvements and maintain optimal protection.

Broadcast Live now includes stream preview, reusable static ingest URLs, SRT support, time-shift functionality, up to 32 languages per stream, embedded captions, and improved SSAI monetization workflow.

New Features

• Before streaming content to your viewers, you can preview a stream in the JWP dashboard and adjust your encoding settings accordingly. 
• Reusable static ingest URLs can be created to maintain consistent encoder configurations for repeated live events.
• Broadcast Live streams can be created from SRT (Pull) sources.
• By defining a value for the time_shift parameter, you can adjust the channel timing for different timezones or create a catch-up channel. 
• Live streams now support up to 32 languages per stream.
• Broadcast Live now supports embedded 608/708 captions.
• Broadcast Live SSAI monetization workflow has been improved.

Bug Fix

• Live DRM streams can be previewed in the dashboard.

We've made an API route name update and expedited the advertising workflow with JWP’s Broadcast Live to VOD workflow with SSAI.

New Features

• The list (GET /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) and create (POST /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) routes in the v2 Management API have been renamed to tags (List tags and Create a tag associated with a given site) to better fit their purposes as well as to better align the endpoint nomenclature with the other existing remove_tag and rename_tag routes.
  
  This change is reflected in both the routes and their response bodies. Please take this into account for any future interactions with these routes.
  
  
• SCTE-35 ad markers in SSAI enabled Broadcast Live streams are now extracted and saved when your live stream is converted to VOD media. Maintain these ad cue points or edit them further on the media-level.
• The original advertising segments in your Broadcast Live stream are now automatically stripped out when the live stream is converted to VOD media. Allowing for seamless new server side ads to be scheduled in the VOD stream leveraging the same ad cue points that have been preserved. 

JWP 8.36.2 introduces a new captions appearance feature, support for Common Media Client Data (CMCD), updates to social sharing, and several important bug fixes to enhance the user experience and functionality.

New Features

• You can now set the edge color (edgeColor) of captions through setCaptions().
• The player now supports Common Media Client Data (CMCD)
• The Twitter share menu option has been renamed to X.

Bug Fixes

• Undefined and double-lined SRT captions display with correct styling.
• When showUIWhen is set to onContent, the player correctly returns dimensions.
• HLS streams no longer impact iPadOS playback.
• Player iframe embeds load correctly.

New Features

The following releases simplify your content type management:

• Download content types for distribution to other accounts or properties
• Edit content types using the dashboard's JSON editor