Wistia Updates

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Retiring Video Quality Account Setting

by Alex Santos, Staff Product Manager

Today we are retiring the Video Quality selection from account settings. Instead, the Wistia player will deliver the best possible version of your video at any given time by using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for adaptive streaming. With this

End of Support for IE 11 and Wistia embeddables

by Carlon McPherson

Starting today we will no longer be supporting IE 11 for our video player, audio player, Channels, and other embeddables. Video and audio embeds viewed on IE 11 will continue to have uninterrupted playback. Certain Channel embeds may

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

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 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

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

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

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 Channel Layout Option!

by Meg Salisbury

We’ve released a long-awaited layout option for Channels this week - List View! We received a lot of feedback after the launch of our podcasting features that our customers were looking for a layout that de-emphasized thumbnails, displayed