Wistia Updates

Custom Player Branding Positioning

by Alex Santos
Custom player branding just got an update! Now when you upload your logo via Customize to brand your player viewing experience, you have the ability to select from not 1, not 2, not 3 but any of the 4 corners of the player conveniently
All Plans
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Updates to Account Usage page

by Caitlin Kullberg, Senior Product Manager
The Account Usage page just got an update. This page is where Account Owners and Managers can see details about your account's monthly bandwidth and media usage. Get there by going to Account > Settings > Account Usage. Once you're there,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Updated Channel Editor User Experience

by Meg Salisbury
Today we released an updated user experience for the Channel Editor! After combing through user feedback and thinking about the information architecture of this area of our product, we landed on some design and organization updates that we
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Improvements to Customize Save & Navigation Experience

by Meg Salisbury
Today we released a significant improvement to Customize for Audio and Video medias in Wistia. What you experienced before is the Save and Navigation flow within Customize that we have had for a few years - a side nav that enabled you...
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Updates to Save and Discard in the Customize panel

by Meg Salisbury
Today we released an update that moves Save & Discard to the top of the Customize side panel. Previously, you had to scroll to find these options, which may have resulted in lost changes. Additionally, we anchored the Accessibility...
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