This release updates the underlying Shaka player to improve playback stability and performance.

New Feature

• Updated the Shaka player to v4.4.3, ensuring enhanced compatibility, reliability, and overall playback performance.

We’re excited to introduce Video Studio, a new feature that automates video creation to help you scale production, reduce overhead, and keep your content fresh and engaging.

New Feature

Video Studio integrates automated video generation into your publishing workflows, enabling teams to produce continuously updated, branded videos directly from content or data feeds.

Key Benefits:

• Automated, Scalable Production: Automatically generate and refresh videos from articles, feeds, or live data.
• Flexible Customization: Control branding, fonts, colors, and metadata display to align with your visual identity.
• Expanded Reach: Repurpose existing content into engaging short-form videos to drive discovery and viewer engagement.

Supported Video Types:

• Discovery videos: Automatically generate multi-segment videos from article or video feeds.
• Auto-updating videos: Create continuously refreshed videos based on live or regularly updated data such as market updates, sports scores, or historical events.

We’ve enhanced the dashboard’s System usage page with a new Cumulative contract period usage section, giving you a clearer view of how your usage aligns with your contracted limits.

New Feature

The dashboard now includes a Cumulative contract period usage section that displays usage progress across key metrics (such as video plays, ad insertions, live delivery minutes, and storage) in cards all benchmarked against your contracted totals.

Key benefits:

• At-a-glance visibility into cumulative usage against contract terms
• Progress bars showing percentage utilization for each key metric

You can view this new section on the System usage page in your dashboard.

To learn more about usage metrics, see our Usage Reference.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your account representative.

Service release. No new features.

We’re excited to announce playback analytics, bringing deeper visibility into how your audience experiences your content.

New Feature

You can now include both DRM-protected and non-DRM media items in the same property. This update provides more flexibility in managing your content and streamlines workflows across your library.

New Feature
Properties can now contain a mix of DRM and non-DRM media, giving you greater control over your content management and delivery.

Per media DRM allows you to:

• Set or update DRM status during upload or after upload through the dashboard or the Management API
• Filter your media library by DRM status for easier organization
• Bulk update DRM status across multiple media items at once

This release improves DRM playback handling and prevents focus issues with the "Keep Watching" button.

New Feature

• The player disables the quality selector for DRM-protected streams using native HLS playback, preventing unusable quality options from appearing. 

Bug Fix

• When the “Keep Watching” button appears, it no longer takes focus from active text fields.

This release delivers smoother playback during ad loading and clearer on-player timestamps.

New Features

• Player defaults have been updated to maintain playback responsiveness during ad loading.
• Timestamps display with improved contrast to meet accessibility standards.

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:

• Maintain full control over video quality, bitrate ladders, and encoding configurations
• Use existing renditions generated by third-party or hardware encoders
• Deliver renditions with full support for streaming, DRM, and monetization

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.

New Feature

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:

• Create tailored reports to explore viewer behavior, device usage, and content performance at a granular level.
• Use prebuilt Quick Start reports (Top Countries, Top Platforms, Top Media, Daily Totals) to jump right into analysis.

Access Streaming Custom Reports

Follow these steps to start building custom reports:

1. Go to Reports > Streaming > Create Report.
2. Select from available fields and measures to build your report, or use one of the Quick Start reports.
3. Explore and save the insights.

NOTE: Custom reports are limited to a maximum of 93 days from the selected start date, regardless of the date range you select.