You can now retrieve the ad_impressions metric in your server-side analytics.

We have released a new page to help you monitor your live streams. 

New Feature

Broadcast Live now includes a Live monitoring page that provides a real-time, consolidated view of all active and preview mode streams across a property. The multi-view interface allows you to track stream status, content playback, and stream details at a glance, helping you efficiently manage multiple streams.

This updates enables you to: 

• Quickly identify and resolve playback or delivery issues
• Confirm that scheduled events start as expected
• Ensure uninterrupted live stream delivery

Learn how to monitor your live streams. 

We’ve enhanced Dynamic Strategy Rules by making workflows more intuitive, expanding A/B testing support, enabling Connatix playlists, and improving overall usability.

New Features

• Run A/B tests with more variants now that traffic splits support up to 15 branches.
• Improved visibility of user traffic flows within a Strategy Rules Tree.
  • All traffic split and condition branches must now be added before all experience outcomes on the tree.
• Connatix playlists can be used within the Partnership experience.
• To minimize strategy creation errors and ensure the best user experience, each strategy must pass the following validations, when applicable:
  • Triggers that load a Partnership experience on an Ad no fill event must also include the trigger condition Ad Position Is Pre.
  • All key-value pairs must be lowercase.
  • Ad tag keys must be lowercase and use single-string values.
  • Page domains and URLs must be properly formatted and exclude protocols such as https:// and http://.
  • A strategy must be deliverable and not deleted to be linked to a placement.
  • Player UX name must be filled out.
• The readability of the Strategy Rules Advertising page has been improved.

Bug Fixes

• The Replace player with custom code option is removed from the Custom Codeexperience. 
  • To achieve the same result, configure a trigger with multiple actions to remove the player and execute custom code.
• When creating a new condition branch, the system opens the first branch when no other branches are defined for ease of entry
• Explanation text correctly displays in the list view for Strategy Rule pages.
• On the Media Curation tab, the media name displays instead of the media ID.

Your API credentials can now be found on separate tabs of the Developer Tools page for easy access and clarity.

New Features

The Developer Tools page includes two tabs with API credentials:

• Delivery API: Used primarily for URL signing. These credentials can be used with the former v1 Management API.
• Management API: Contains credentials for the v2 Management API. 

See our documentation to learn more about authentication, rate limits, and generating API keys.

We've introduced updates to playlist organization and layout to enhance usability and ensure a more consistent experience across the dashboard.

New Features

• Unified Playlist Tabs: For dynamic playlists, the Playlist Metadata and Settings tabs have been merged into a single Playlist & settings tab.

• Title Management:

  • Manual Playlists: Title management has been moved to the Playlist Metadata tab.
  • Dynamic Playlists: Title management is now located in the unified Playlist & Settings tab.
  • Recommendations, Article Matching & Search: Title management has been relocated to the Settings tab for consistency across tools.
• Consistent Preview Panel Placement: The playlist preview column has been moved to the right side of the interface to align with other preview panels throughout the dashboard.
• Simplified Media Management: For manual playlists, media selection has been streamlined with checkbox selectors, and hover menus have been removed for a more straightforward and focused user experience.

Service release. No new features.

Our iOS SDK 4.22.0 release includes improvements to player stability, important bug fixes, and updates to platform support.

New Feature

• Request handling is improved to maintain player state more consistently.

Bug Fixes

• The scrub bar remains responsive after a DAI ad fails.
• Users can scroll through Recommendations playlist items without errors.

Deprecations

Deprecated player APIs have been removed from the SDK. Be sure to update any code using the following APIs:

• JWPlayer.jwplayerContentIsBuffering(:)
• JWPlayerItem.autostart
• JWPlayerViewController.delegate
• JWPlayerViewController.registerController()
• JWPlayerConfigurationBuilder.playlist(:)
• JWJSONParser.configFromURL(:)
• JWJSONParser.configFromJSONData(:)

iOS 14 will no longer be supported in the next major SDK release. We recommend upgrading to the latest iOS version to ensure compatibility with future SDK releases and guarantee access to new SDK features and enhancements.

Android SDK 4.20.0 improves PiP receiver handling, enhances player lifecycle reliability, and resolves playback interruptions caused by faulty ad tags.

New Feature

• The IMA package has been upgraded to version 3.36.0.

Bug Fixes

• A new receiver is registered only after the previous one is removed to prevent multiple PiP receivers per Activity.
• Related configuration requests correctly follow the player lifecycle in React-Native and Native setups.
• Only one set of player controls appears during initial buffering.
• The player no longer crashes when attempting to enter PiP in an Activity that is no longer attached to the Window.
• If a faulty VAST ad tag is encountered, the ad is skipped and content playback continues without stalling.

We’ve enhanced the tracks editor to make it easier to create and manage caption and chapter tracks.

New Feature

You can now easily create and manage tracks associated with a media item:

• Add track metadata, including name and language code
• Find and replace text across one or more instances
• Insert captions or chapters at the paused position of the preview player
• Use keyboard shortcuts for faster editing

For more information, learn how to add closed captions and chapter markers. 

In v8.36.6, an ad macro replacement issue has been addressed.

Bug Fix

All ad macros in tag URLs are correctly replaced, even when the same macro appears multiple times.