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Use your own font in Channels

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
New Feature
Advanced Plan
When you embed a Channel on your site, it can now take on the font you use across the rest of your pages! Use our developer documentation to set the font of your channel to one that is hosted on your site. P.S. It's now easier to see...
Use your own font in Channels

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.
Light Mode in Channels

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...
Email Collecting in Channels

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.
Introducing: Wistia Channels

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

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...
Improvement

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...
Improvement

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...
Improvement

A/B Testing in Wistia

by Carlon McPherson, Product Manager
New Feature
Advanced Plan
You can now run A/B Tests in Wistia! This feature is only available for accounts on Wistia's Advanced Plan. A/B Testing in Wistia will allow you to test any two videos in your account. Test video customizations like calls-to-action...
A/B Testing in Wistia