Wistia Updates

Playback Speed no longer stored in Viewer Preferences

by Carlon McPherson
Today, we’re making a small change to what settings are stored in our Viewer Preferences feature. Playback Speed will no longer be stored across videos. The starting Playback Speed will be scoped only to each individual video.
Improvement

Updates to Google Key Moments SEO Metadata

by Megan Salisbury
This summer Google introduced a new way to enable key moments on videos. Instead of having to define each Key Moment manually, Google can index the video for Key Moments automatically via a query param that links directly to a timestamp in
Improvement

Updates to Legacy Channels

by Josh Johnson
We've been busy creating a better Channel experience for you! This includes some usability enhancements and exciting new channel features - like an improved editor, headerless Channels, and Channel list views. Plus, we have even more
New Feature

Bulk Actions in Channels

by Josh Johnson
You can now act on a bunch of items at the same time. This will make it easier to publish, unpublish and delete a group of items. Right now, it’s initially only available on Channels but will eventually also be available for actions on
New Feature

New Viewer Roles in Channels

by Josh Johnson
Users who can already manage users and permissions can now add users in a new Viewer role in your Channels.  This allows the invited user to log on and view your content. This is useful when you want to share channel content and get
New Feature

Position and Themes for Annotations

by Meg Salisbury
You can now manage the position (left, right) and theme (light, dark) of your video annotations directly in Customize! Previously, these options were available by modifying the annotation plugin. We hope you take advantage of these
New Feature
Improvement

The IE 11 end-of-life Plan for Embeddables

by Meg Salisbury
Starting 1/1/22 we will no longer be supporting IE 11 for our audio player, video player, Channels, and other embeddables. This means that video and audio embeds viewed on IE 11 will continue to have uninterrupted playback. Certain Channel

Playlists, Password Protect, and Channel Popover Embed Updates

by Meg Salisbury
We have a few updates today! Playlists As of early 2019 we deprecated our Playlist functionality - existing playlists would continue to work, but no new playlists could be created. We are discontinuing engineering support as well - no
Improvement

Channel Embeds now support a Headerless State

by Meg Salisbury
You asked, we listened! Many of our customers love Channels, but want to be able to embed just the “Body” content of the Channel - the videos and podcast episodes - rather than everything and a Header. You can now toggle the Header on or
New Feature