Web: 8.38.7
Service release. No new features.
We’re excited to announce playback analytics, bringing deeper visibility into how your audience experiences your content.
Playback analytics helps you uncover trends and engagement patterns across your library with expanded ranges and per-video insights:
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:
This release improves DRM playback handling and prevents focus issues with the "Keep Watching" button.
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.