Wistia Updates

✂️ Updates to our editing feature

by Ariana Kornblau
Have you heard? Now you can edit your videos right in Wistia! Announced in June of 2022, our editing feature helps you trim, split, and cut your clips to polish your content for your viewers. From webinars to live events and everything in
New Feature

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

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 Custom Font Application Updates

by Meg Salisbury
Today we're releasing an update to how Custom Fonts in Channels are applied - making them more consistent across your Channels for maximum brand impact while also using our core font where needed to support Accessibility and responsive...
Improvement

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...
Improvement

Removing Beta Flag to Disable the Accessible Player and Checklist

by Meg Salisbury
Starting today we are beginning the removal of our "Disable Player Accessibility and UI Updates" beta flag in Account Settings. Only a small number of accounts that had this flag checked will be impacted. The removal of this flag will...

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...
Improvement

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...