JWP has introduced the Tags page, allowing you to easily create and manage tags from a central location in the dashboard. 

New Feature

The JW Platform now provides a property level Tags page. Follow these steps to access the page: 

1. On the Properties page, select a property. The property settings appear. 
2. Click the Tags tab. A list of all existing tags in the property appears.

From here, you can create, edit, merge, and delete tags. See our documentation for more information. 

This release corrects ad event tracking, ensuring accurate reporting for VAST advertising configurations.

Bug Fix

ClickTracking events now correctly trigger and send as expected when using VAST ad configurations.

JWP dashboard users can now edit media titles upon upload. 

New Feature

When selecting media items for upload, you can now edit their titles in the dashboard, streamlining your content management experience. 

For more information, learn how to upload videos. 

With today's release, we've introduced several navigation and design changes.

New Features

When managing your content, building a new player, or setting up advertising, enjoy a more intuitive navigation experience with these key updates:

• Optimized Information Architecture: We have organized the main (sidebar) navigation for better accessibility and clarity.
• Clearer Navigation Labels & Refreshed Design: Visible labels help you easily and intuitively find products and features within the cohesive interface
• Streamlined Property Selection: You can quickly switch between properties from the Property selector at the top of the main navigation.
• Quick Access to Property Settings: You can access all the Property settings from the bottom of the main navigation.

We've introduced a new strategy panel to enhance usability.

New Feature

A new side panel lets you define a strategy name during creation and edit it later if needed. This improves workflow and clarity. Additional strategy settings will be introduced in future updates.

Use a new dataset to gain more insights about Dynamic Strategy Rules.

New Feature

You can now easily access daily rollups of your Dynamic Strategy Rules through a single dataset: Strategy Rules Placement Daily.

Dynamic Strategy Rules now support multiple triggers and include refreshed detail pages. We've also resolved issues related to occurrence-based triggers, zoom controls, and bidding configurations.

New Features

• Multiple triggers can now be added after a JW video experience in the strategy tree.
• On the Media curation and JW video experience detail pages, layout and styling updates have been made to improve usability.

Bug Fixes

• Strategies save successfully when they include a trigger in which Number of occurrences has been selected for the Event trigger frequency.
• In the strategy tree, zoom controls respond to single-click actions, allowing users to zoom in, zoom out, and reset the zoom level.
• The Trade Desk can now be added as a Player Bidding ad partner in the JWP dashboard without Support Team assistance.

Android SDK 4.19.0 enhances caption management, upgrades core playback components, and addresses critical stability issues with advertisements.

New Features

• For a video hosted on JW Platform, the player now ignores side-loaded captions if the video already includes embedded captions, preventing duplicate entries in the captions menu.
• The AndroidX Media3 ExoPlayer has been upgraded to version 1.4.1.
• The minimum supported Android version has been updated to Android 7 (API level 24).

Bug Fixes

• DRM content with advertisements will play without causing application crashes.
• Skipping a Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) ad advances the player to the next media item in the playlist.

The Audience retention panel has been removed from the a media's details page.

Deprecation

To track viewer retention metrics, you can still create a custom report that provides insights into viewer behavior across different completion thresholds.

1. Create a new report.
2. Select engagement metrics:
   • Under Metrics, click Engagement.
   • Select Complete rate, 25% completes, 50% completes, and 75% completes.
3. Select the data groupings:
   • Under Group by, click Content.
   • Select Media.
   • Click Date/Time. 
   • Select Upload date.

This release strengthens callback handling, improves media scrubbing stability, and resolves audio track playback issues in HLS streams.

Bug Fixes

• setPlaylistItemCallback now correctly implements @escaping behavior.
• Memory pointer handling is improved to prevent crashes during media scrubbing operations.
• Default audio track playback always occurs after modifying track metadata in HLS manifests.