Wistia Updates

Light Mode in Channels

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
New Feature
Advanced Plan
You can now flip the switch on your Channel between light and dark! 💡 Light Mode Dark Mode You can turn this in Edit > Color > Background when you're viewing a project as a Channel.

Publish to Social: Now with LinkedIn & Stats

by Carlon McPherson, Product Manager
We've added the ability to publish videos from Wistia to LinkedIn! In addition, you can now also see stats for videos you've published to your social networks right within Wistia. LinkedIn For LinkedIn, you can connect this social...
New Feature

Email Collecting in Channels

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
New Feature
Advanced Plan
We're excited to add the option to collect emails using Turnstiles in your Channels. You have a few options: Off (Default) - This option will make sure no email collection forms show up on the videos in your channel, regardless of what...

Introducing: Wistia Channels

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
New Feature
Advanced Plan
With Wistia Channels, you can easily turn a collection of videos into a show-stopping experience. Read more here: https://wistia.com/learn/product-updates/introducing-wistia-channels.

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...
New Feature

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
Improvement

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...
New Feature

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.
New Feature

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...