We’ve updated the Broadcast Live UI for a cleaner, more intuitive dashboard experience. We also fixed a DVR bug to enhance your stream previews.

New Features

Creating a Broadcast Live stream is now simpler, with improved support for simulcasting and advanced settings.

For more information, learn how to create a Broadcast Live stream.

Bug Fixes

When previewing a Broadcast Live stream, the DVR is now cleared to prevent viewers from scrubbing back to any content that occurred before the stream went live.

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

New Feature

Simulcasting functionality has been added for Live Events.

New Feature

For Live Events, you can now simulcast streams to up to three RTMP destinations, such as social media platforms like Facebook or YouTube.

This release includes accessibility improvements for player controls and timestamps, along with refinements to DASH livestream playback behavior.

New Features

• Player controls and timestamps have been updated to meet accessibility contrast requirements.
• Tooltips and screen reader labels have been added to improve control accessibility.

Bug Fix

• MPEG-DASH livestreams without DVR now pause on the last frame, consistent with DVR and HLS streams.

These updates address visual and messaging issues, supporting media management.

Bug Fixes

• When selecting a thumbnail for a vertical video on the media details page, the previews now display correctly in the 9:16 aspect ratio.
• In the preview section for failed MRSS imports, the error message provides clearer information.

For Dynamic Strategy Rules, we've introduced more precise page URL targeting and resolved several display bugs.

New Feature

• Condition branches now support the Ends With operator for the Page URL condition to allow for more precise targeting.

Bug Fixes

• The display of long names within a Dynamic Strategy Rules (DSR) decision tree has been improved.
• On the DSR Advertising page, the descriptions of Dynamic Ads has been improved.
• When cloning a row in the DSR library, display names appear correctly.

We’ve introduced built-in analytics for Dynamic Strategy Rules to make performance tracking more actionable.

New Feature

Dynamic Strategy Rules analytics gives you insights to adjust and improve strategy performance:

• View traffic flow across rule branches and compare performance between strategy versions, all within a decision tree. 
• Access node-specific data in tabular (with optional .csv export) or visual format. 

Service release. No new features.

Bug Fix

• Resolved an issue affecting the Freewheel ad plug-in.

We’ve made several UI improvements across the JW Platform to ensure a more consistent and polished visual experience.

New Features

The following pages have been refreshed for improved visual consistency and clarity:

• Players
• Playlists
• Real-time analytics

As part of this update:

• The Customize branding CTA has been moved to the header of the player details page for easy access
• Dark theme has been removed from all updated pages

These changes are part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the dashboard and improve usability.