This release delivers smoother playback during ad loading and clearer on-player timestamps.
Bring Your Own Renditions (BYOR) is now available in beta, giving you the ability to upload custom pre-encoded renditions into the JW Platform. With BYOR, you can manage media, deliver streams, protect content, and monetize playback using renditions created outside of JWPC's automated pipeline.
New Feature
BYOR lets you bring externally transcoded renditions into the JW Platform for delivery through JW Player’s infrastructure. This provides a modular solution for broadcasters with advanced quality and workflow requirements.
Key benefits:
See our documentation to learn more.
We’re excited to introduce Streaming Custom Reports. This feature enables deeper, more granular analysis of your streaming data, helping you uncover trends and insights tailored to your business needs.
Streaming Custom Reports help you build flexible analyses of your streaming performance, extending beyond the high-level insights of the streaming analytics of the Analytics overview page:
Follow these steps to start building custom reports:
NOTE: Custom reports are limited to a maximum of 93 days from the selected start date, regardless of the date range you select.
JWP 8.38.4 introduces a new configuration option for video thumbnails, adds support for unencoded Google PPS segment values and the HLS #EXT-X-SESSION-DATA tag, and includes player performance improvements to optimize preview image requests.
Dynamic Ads are now available to help you customize ad experiences based on your goals and viewer expectations. This feature can be used both with ad schedules and Dynamic Strategy Rules, giving you greater flexibility to manage ad delivery.
Dynamic Ads let you define ad rules directly from your JWP dashboard, balancing audience experience with monetization potential.
Key Benefits:
Dynamic Ads can be used when defining an ad schedule or creating an advertising library within Dynamic Strategy Rules.
Contact your JWPC representative to get started with Dynamic Ads.
You can now retrieve the placement_name and country_code metrics in your Dynamic Strategy Rules analytics.
The placement_name metric supplements the existing placement_id metric, while the country_code metric provides additional granularity alongside the US_UK_OR_ROW metric. Both metrics can now be included when querying data through Data Sharing.
You can now retrieve the watched_duration_audible metric in your play session monthly analytics.
The watched_duration_audible metric can now be added when querying data through Data Sharing. This metric represents the total duration of content watched with audio unmuted, in seconds.
Easily create and fine-tune captions and chapter points with our new interactive timeline.
New Feature
The dashboard’s tracks editor now features an enhanced timeline that lets you manually set or adjust the time codes and durations of captions and chapters. Zoom controls give you precise editing capabilities, whether you’re working on short clips or long-form content — helping you deliver more accurate, polished media experiences.
For more information, learn how to add closed captions and chapter markers.
This release resolves an issue in version 4.23.0 that could cause an App Store submission rejection.
If you are on 4.23.0, do not submit that version to the App Store. Update directly to 4.23.1 to ensure compliance and stability.
iOS SDK 4.23.0 introduces support for raw VMAP XML ad schedules in JWAdsAdvertisingConfig and JWPlayerItem objects, enhances compatibility with Google IMA ads, updates the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file, raises the minimum supported iOS version, and includes bug fixes to improve playback behavior and stability.
JWAdsAdvertisingConfig and JWPlayerItem objects.vpa) and mute (vpmute) parameters are now appended to Google IMA ads..userInfo) is now sent to custom Chromecast receivers.displayInLandscape is true, content remains in fullscreen mode regardless of device orientation.