Wistia Updates

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...
Improvement

Resumable Video & Viewer Preferences

by Meg Salisbury
Today, we released a set of new features that improve the viewer's experience with your video content: Resumable Video and Viewer Preferences. Resumable Video Resumable Video allows viewers to pick up where they left off in your video...
New Feature

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...

Reach & Retarget with Google integration

by Kristin Bagnoli
Today, we released the Google integration for our Reach & Retarget feature (formerly called Custom Audiences), allowing you to send Wistia viewer data to your Google Analytics account. There, you can use that data to create audiences for...
New Feature

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.
New Feature
Improvement

New accessible player and in-app checklist

by Kristin Bagnoli
Today, we’re super excited to announce updates to our player and our app to help make your videos more accessible to everyone. These updates align with WCAG AA 2.1 guidelines and offer a better, more accessible experience across all...
New Feature

Borrow a video

by Josh Johnson
New users can now borrow a video to quickly and easily test out Wistia’s customize features.
New Feature

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...
New Feature
Improvement