New Enhancement

You can now view summarized metrics as KPIs next to the visualizations in the Analytics Overview.

Direct URLs for captions and legacy captions editor are restored.

Bug Fixes

• We have added back the Direct URL for a caption track to the captions editor. To access the direct URL for a specific caption track, click ⋯ > Edit from the Captions page.
• The legacy captions editor is available again. To access the legacy edit for a specific caption track, click ⋯ > Open Legacy Editor from the Captions page.

We've updated the Media Details page to enhance your experience and efficiency. For users with alternate images beta entitlement, all media-level Images, Tracks, and Assets are now conveniently located below the media preview player. Contact your JWP representative to request entitlement. 

Users without alternate images entitlement will find media-level Thumbnails, Tracks, and Assets under the preview player.

New Feature

The Media Details page is your new one-stop-shop to view and manage all media-level resources.

1. From the Media Library, select a media item. The Media Details page appears. 
2. Below the preview player, click the Images (Thumbnails), Tracks, or Assets tabs to access related resources. 

With this release, you can customize how you share media, and tag management has shifted from the former Tags page to the Media Library.

New Feature

Now, when sharing a link to your media, you can select which player to use.

You may not have known this. Did you know you could generate shareable links from within your JW dashboard?

1. On the Media Library page, hover over a media item.
2. Click the Share icon.
3. Copy the Share Link.

Deprecation

The Tags page is no longer available in the dashboard as of 18 September 2023. Please use the Media Library for tag management, tag filtering, and searching by tags.

• Manage tags for a single media item
• Bulk manage tags

New Feature

You can now easily set up Broadcast Live from your JW dashboard, enabling you to easily create continuous 24/7 streams that offer:

• Dedicated infrastructure ensuring stable content delivery per stream
• Versatile protocol compatibility, embracing RTMP, SRT, and RTP
• A multi-regional design for enhanced reliability
• Robust security features, such as stream redundancy, geoblocking, and DRM
• Adaptive streaming to optimize the viewer experience

Contact your JWP representative for information about enabling this for your account.

In this latest release, the created date now appears in the dashboard, allowing sorting by date, advanced search filtering, and displays on Media Details page.

New Feature

The Created date is when a media item was uploaded to the JW Platform. This value now appears in the dashboard. This enhancement enables the following:

• Within your Media Library, you can now sort media items by their creation date.
• In Advanced Search, you can filter media items within a specific creation date range.
• Each media item's creation date prominently appears in the Media Summary section on its Media Details page.

With this release, we've made it easier for you to manage tags and enhanced the visibility of your media item status in Manual Playlists. 

New Features

• You can now bulk add and remove tags in batches of up to 50 media items by using the Manage Tags panel in your Media Library. For batches greater than 50 items, use the v2 Management API to bulk remove tags. Bulk renaming of tags can only be done via the API. 
• Media items in Manual Playlists now display a label indicating whether a media item is scheduled or has expired.
  
  

Deprecation

The Tags page will no longer be available in the dashboard as of 18 September 2023. Please use the Media Library for tag management, tag filtering, and searching by tags.

With this release, DNS masking is deprecated for some users.

Deprecation

DNS masking support has been removed from JW Platform. Current customers who are actively using DNS masking will continue to have access to the feature until further notice.

With today's release, we've enhanced playlist previews and improved JSON validation in the JWP dashboard.

New Feature

In the JWP dashboard, playlist configuration pages show promoted content in the playlist preview.

Bug Fix

In the JWP dashboard, the player configuration page validates the format of the edited JSON code.

The Analytics Overview page has received a visual update that shares the visual experience as Real Time Analytics and Custom Reports. Without making any functional changes, the new experience more quickly loads and displays your data.