Wistia Updates

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New Video Customize and Channel Editor Options

by Meg Salisbury

We've rolled out three new updates to Wistia - an option to manage transcripts for your videos, control their appearance in Channel embeds, and an update to our default alignment behavior in Channel embeds. Video Transcripts When we...

Updates to Channels

by Meg Salisbury

Today we deployed a few changes to our Channels. Changed "Start watching" to "Play" This adjustment reduces button size and addresses feedback we've received about the button copy. Note that if you have a trailer on your Channel, you...

Wistia Chrome Extension Deprecation

by Meg Salisbury

We have recently deprecated our Wistia Chrome Extension in favor of alternative Wistia features that allow you to share and embed your videos easily across all your marketing channels and applications. If you use Chrome and currently...

Resumable Video Updates

by Meg Salisbury

Following up on our Resumable Video and Viewer Preferences features here we have released additional updates. Videos no longer Resume if your viewers are returning to your content and would be resuming the video within the first 10...

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...

Updated privacy policy

by Josh Johnson

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

New Log In Page

by Josh Johnson

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

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...

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