Wistia Updates

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M3U8 Asset Retrieval Change

by Meg Salisbury

On February 24th, 2020, we'll be removing support for static HLS asset retrieval. What does that mean? Well, you won't notice any visible changes to playback or performance, but this will affect any hardcoded m3u8 assets you may have in...

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Updated privacy policy

by Josh Johnson

Wistia's privacy policy has been updated with information regarding recent CCPA changes.

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New Log In Page

by Josh Johnson

Our new log in page has more room to learn about what's new at Wistia.

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Video color improvements

by Kristin Bagnoli

We recently released an update that improves the handling of video color during our encoding process. That means the colors of the Wistia derivatives are more accurate to your original version. Any videos uploaded after December 16...

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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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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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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...