Wistia Updates

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Automatically order captions for videos uploaded to Wistia

by Carlon McPherson, Product Manager

We have added a new account setting that will make it even easier for you to caption your videos. Account Owners can select which type of captions they'd like to order (professional or automated) as well as if they'd like to review or...

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Player Animation & Behavior Improvements

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

We have two small but delightful updates to the Wistia player live now: A more refined and smooth play / pause animation Standard embeds now behave much better with CSS transforms and zoom

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Video Startup Time & Exits Before Play added to Status Page

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

We have added two metrics to the Wistia status page (https://status.wistia.com/): Video Startup Time: Measures from when the player has been instructed to play the video to when the first frame of video is showing and the playhead is...

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Google Sign On & Up

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

You can sign in (and sign up!) for Wistia using Google now. We finally made it to the future.

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Goodbye, Wistia Labs 👋

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

Over the years, Wistia Labs has been a testing ground for some of our more experimental player features—with most of the tools being moved to a permanent home within Wistia. That means much of what was left on this page didn't have a ton...

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A few fixes to popover behavior

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

We have a handful of tweaks to the behavior & tracking of popover embeds coming in hot 🚀. The following bug fixes are now live: Turnstiles at the beginning of the video will no longer trigger "play" events if the popover is opened...

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Bug fix: Hiding controls on fullscreen

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

Bug: If you clicked the fullscreen button and didn't move the mouse at all afterward, the controls would never hide. If you were to refresh the page and click to play without moving the mouse, the controls might never hide. This is now...

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Ability to show a popover without it autoplaying

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

Using Embed Options, you can now set a popover to not autoplay once it's opened. The viewer will need to click play themselves. The embed option is: The default behavior for popovers is that once clicked, they autoplay as soon as they...

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Ability to remove 'Click to play' on a looping video thumbnail

by Molly, Product @ Wistia

Using Embed Options, you can now remove the 'Click to play' option on the player when adding a looping video thumbnail by setting it to If you're unfamiliar with using Embed Options, you can learn more here, as well as read up on our...