Updates

Core Player

• We’re optimizing the click-to-play button to drive more plays for our publishers. Some customers may notice their play button is more stylized than before.
• When the player is within range of the live edge, viewers will now see the video position at the end of the timeslider. Previously, a slight gap erroneously implied the viewer was not at the edge.

Ads

• Created a new 'startOnSeek' ad rule. This can be used in conjunction with seek() in lieu of a play event to define a start position and begin playback. This prevents viewers from being bombarded with ads when starting content playback from somewhere other than the content’s beginning.
• Expanded Video Player Bidding functionality to the VAST plugin. Video Player Bidding was initially only available for IMA plugin.
• For Video Player Bidding, created a new mediation layer JWPDFP that combines both existing mediation layers (JWP and DFP), allowing the SpotX bidder to take advantage of the benefits of both mediation layers.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue causing the recommendations shelf to appear over ads.
• Fixed an issue causing the live icon to flicker on and off when a viewer falls behind the edge in a DVR/live stream.
• Fixed an issue in IE and Edge where the stretching configuration option was not respected if set to a value other than uniform.
• Fixed an issue with live videos causing the position in the control bar to change constantly within a few second range, which negatively impacted the viewer experience.
• Fixed an issue with captions not working in 360 videos in Safari.
• Fixed an issue causing the page to scroll to a random point when players embedded with an iframe were clicked using Safari on iOS.

Ads

• Fixed an issue where the VAST [ERRORCODE] macro was not being automatically filled if present at the root of the XML rather than within the element in the InLine or Wrapper elements.