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.

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 now provides native support for Google Publisher Provided Signals.

New Feature

When Google Publisher Provided Signals* is enabled, IAB contextual segments are automatically passed through the ad tag to improve programmatic monetization.

You can enable this feature in one of several ways:

• Within a Strategy Rules ad experience
• Through player customization in your JWP dashboard
• By setting the advertising.enablePPS property in the on-page configuration

* Google Publisher Provided Signals needs to be enabled by JWP. Contact your JWP account representative to opt in.

JW 8.31.0 adds loadAdTag(), deprecates playAd(), and enhances loadAdXml method. Additionally, various bugs have been addressed.

New Features

• Support has been added for starting ads from VAST payloads with the loadAdXml().
• The loadAdTag method replaces the deprecated playAd() .

Bug Fixes

• The playAd method now correctly triggers adBreakStart and adBreakEnd.
• Hotspots appear while non-linear ads are displayed.
• Enabling generateSEOMetadata allows Google to index video key moments in all cases.
• Custom labels populate correctly in the GA4 plugin.
• Interactivity no longer causes a black screen for subsequent playlist items.
• The player displays companion banners containing script tags.

A fix for bid requests has been released.

Bug Fix

In Player Bidding, the advertising.bids.settings.consentManagement.usp configuration correctly appears in bid requests.

New Feature

Your Consent Management Platforms (CMP) settings just got easier with disableConsentManagementOnNoCmp. Designed for regions where GDPR is not applicable, this setting ensures that Player Bidding adapts its user privacy and compliance if a CMP does not return a tcfapi() value. 

Please see our Advertising reference for more details. 

Bug Fixes

We resolved a Player Bidding issue where player configurations using autostart failed to send bids with the correct video.playbackmethod in prebid requests. This fix ensures improved accuracy and compliance in our Player Bidding system.

The Trade Desk is now a Player Bidding ad partner and support for additional Player Bidding bid request information has been added.

New Feature

• The Trade Desk is now a new Player Bidding ad partner that can be added to an on-page player configuration or a dashboard ad schedule. 
• Player Bidding bid requests pass the Google Publisher Identifier (GPID) field.
• Player Bidding bid requests pass a plcmt value that can be defined in the on-page player configuration or in the dashboard ad schedule.

New Feature

Introducing a multi-template system for Player Bidding:

• Save and manage multiple templates as needed for different on-page setups
• Edit settings in bulk across a large number of Ad Schedules without replacing required custom ID information
• Create new Ad Schedules with saved templates

See Create a bidding template for more information.

General Improvement

Added VideoByte, Smart AdServer as a Player Bidding Ad Partner

General Improvement

Added YahooSSP as a Player Bidding Ad Partner