Video software and data insights leader JW Player has appointed video technology veteran David LaPalomento as Chief Technology Officer. David was previously the VP of Engineering at Brightcove. Read more in AdAge's "People on the Move."

Digital native broadcasters are finding success with new and exciting video strategies that are outlined in a report published by JW Player. Discover five key takeaways from the report in this round-up from Advanced Television

Videos powered by JW Player are watched by more than 1 billion people a month. With $100 million in new funding, the company now wants to double down on its data business.

In an exclusive deals report via The Wall Street Journal, JW Player announces that private-equity firm LLR Partners becomes new investor with two board seats

Clarence Kam, Chief Product Officer at JW Player talks with MarTech Series about the top evolving trends in ad tech while sharing a few best practices for first-time ad tech adopters.

Michael Schwalb, GM of Partnerships and Data at JW Player shares a few pointers on optimizing video use in sales and marketing while talking about the impact the growth of video will have on advertisers in this chat with SalesTechStar

The Open Measurement for Web Video SDK is included in Version 8.20.0 of the JW Player Web Player, eliminating the need for VPAID wrappers to measure viewability. Read more on AiThority: AI Technology Insights.

JW Player's Dave Otten shares some insight with Total Retail on ways digital video is being used to boost the retail industry. The pandemic has accelerated a long transition to e-commerce, and brands will need to continue connecting with their customers digitally for the foreseeable future. Learn ways retail...

Future U.S. has announced the recipients of the first ever Tech Leadership Product Awards, recognizing individual and technology leadership. JW Player wins for "Best OTT and Streaming Technology" for its Live Channels technology.

The key challenge facing publishers of digital video—whether they’re broadcasters, publishers or even creators of online courses—is finding a way to increase viewer engagement. Seventy-five percent of TV and film sites say engagement is at the head of line, according to a JW Player report, "Digital Video Industry Insights...

Knowledge Network, British Columbia’s public broadcaster, has tapped video playback technology provider, JW Player, as it expands beyond traditional linear broadcasting.

To help companies capitalize on the sudden growth in video, JW surveyed 221 companies including publishers, broadcasters, online learning creators, and other producers of digital video content to understand their challenges and goals. As streaming video and traditional TV consumption surged in 2020, people were watching up to 70%...

As streaming video and traditional TV consumption surged in 2020, people were watching up to 70% more hours of video per day than before the pandemic according to research from online video platform provider JW Player.

Industry executives share their 2021 predictions across social, eCommerce, video, and more as MobileMarketing press draws a line under what has been an 'eventful' year.

In a story from Advanced Television, JW Player, the independent platform for video delivery and intelligence, has revealed its predictions for the video industry in 2021.

In a report for MediaPost, JW Player's co-found and Chief Innovation Officer Jeroen Wijerling predicts OTT will be the primary way that TV brands of all sizes reach their audiences next year

In an interview with Faultline, W Player feels a right to celebrate its achievements in a year in which it has experienced live video streaming explode by over 500% since last December.

The Fast Mode reports JW Player's launch of Live Channels, an enhanced live streaming solution that enables digital media companies to broadcast and monetize live without delay or time-consuming set-up.

Rapid TV News reports that digital media companies can broadcast and monetise live streamed content quickly and easily with JW Player's new product: Live Channels

Advanced Television reports that JW Player announces the launch of Live Channels, an enhanced live streaming solution that enables digital media companies to broadcast and monetise live without delay or set-up.

JW Player, a leading independent video platform, and Ovation TV, an independent television and digital media company dedicated to celebrating and supporting all forms of arts and culture, today announced a partnership to help expand its video distribution presence across all screens.

Las empresas trabajarán en conjunto para ayudar a desarrollar la usabilidad y monetización de videos en la página web de La Razón.

Jeroen Wijering, the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of JW Player describes the company’s strategy and discusses broader changes in the media landscape.

As AccuWeather sees tremendous growth in video it turns to JW Player to help it continue its expansion into mobile.

The new OTT Apps product will provide clients with a more cost-effective and faster way to build OTT video apps for connected TVs and mobile devices.

This year's NAB will be all about reaching over-the-top video customers quickly, and video player and platform company JW Player is adding to that with its announcement of OTT Apps, a new offering that creates Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Android apps quickly.

Video software company JW Player has expanded its Video Player Bidding service with three new partners as it looks to provide publishers with more opportunity to monetize their video inventory programmatically.

JW Player, a technology company that powers the videos that run on many publishers' websites, is expanding its ads business by adding three new partners to its video ad product, the company tells Axios.

At this week's re[FRAME] forum in New York City, video coding professionals heard an update on LHLS, or low-latency HLS, delivered by John Bartos, a senior software engineer for JW Player. Reframe is something of an East Coast Demuxed conference, and Bartos was building on a topic he introduced at Demuxed...

JW Player's Brian Rifkin, Co-Founder and Head of Strategic Partnerships, predicts short ads will lead the way in 2019.

The Streaming Media 100 is our annual attempt to shine the spotlight on the companies that enable the creation and delivery of all of that amazing content.

Video platform JW Player and content logistics software firm MAZ Systems have teamed up to combine video hosting and distribution functions onto one dashboard.

The partnership between JW Player and NetAddiction aims to enhance the performance of videos on all properties of the Netaddiction network. The organic displays are growing with a + 120% on Multiplayer.it and a + 55% on Movieplayer.it

The Deloitte North America Technology Fast 500 list debuted in 1995 and, for the 23rd straight year, software dominated the list. JW Player for the second straight year was named to the list - this year coming in at 340th.

JW Player announced today that it has hired David Pashman, the former General Counsel of Meetup, as its new legal boss. In this role, he will oversee the global legal function, including support for JW Player’s rapidly expanding sales and partnership divisions, as well as work closely with the...

What is it like hearing a panel of rock star women talk about their paths to tech leadership and the challenges they faced? Inspiring. Last night JW Player and Brown University’s Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership co-hosted, Shaking Up Leadership: A Roadmap to Inspiring Female Leaders in...

JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views JW Player, one of the most distributed digital video players in the world, Monday announced a deal with programmatic ad platform SpotX...

Penske Media, the publisher of WWD, Variety and IndieWire and majority owner of Wenner Media, is doubling down on video across its portfolio. Its formats range from snackable, short-form clips and pre-roll to text-based video and more cinematic, long-form series.

Facebook’s Watch launched as a tightly curated approach to high quality video, but its future might be more like YouTube. Witness how publishers that aren’t being paid by Facebook make shows specifically for its Watch section can still take advantage of the Watch real estate by posting their existing...

At JW Player Insights in London, where digital publishers and broadcasters come together to share best practices and learn about the future of video from industry experts, McGee said as long as it contains all the “vital ingredients” the size of the screen the story is told on is...

Although header bidding has a video problem, feel-good publisher LittleThings is getting unified auctions for its video inventory to pay off. Adopting video header bidding helped LittleThings increase its programmatic video ad rates by about 20 percent over the past 12 months, said Justin Festa, chief digital officer at...

Forget the pivot to video; the pivot to reality is in full swing in digital media. The culprits are well-known. Google and Facebook have an iron grip on digital ad revenue. Publishers are trying to save themselves by making wholesale shifts in their business models, but they can’t transition...

JW Player was nominated for "Best Publishing Platform" along with Talpa Media for Utopia TV's site.

Autoplay has become synonymous with publishers putting monetization ahead of user experience. The leading browsers, Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari are taking steps to block videos that play automatically with sound on. Publishers will have to post videos that people actually want to watch by choosing to start them.

Online video platform provider JW Player is adding virtual reality and 360-degree video capability to its streaming service offerings for publishers, jumping feet-first into the VR segment with a product that includes SDKs to enable streaming over native apps, in addition to an HTML5 plugin for browser-based streaming.

Popular video platform JW Player now supports virtual reality and 360-degree video. With over 2 million publishers using its platform, the new capabilities could help further fuel VR and 360-degree video which have become key priorities for large companies including Google, YouTube, Samsung, Facebook and others.

Roku today is rolling out new tools that will make it simpler for anyone to bring their video content to its media player lineup, without having to write any code. With an update to the Roku Direct Publisher Platform, video creators can instead walk through a few steps, including...

The two most important trends to be on top of right now are replacing all Flash advertising content with HTML5 creative and understanding how the browser companies will be curbing advertisers from screaming at prospective customers. JW Player’s Brian Rifkin and Eric Boyd share tips and best practices for...

Over the past year, the technology that powers Fast Company has been completely overhauled. Everything from the tech stack to the content management system, the video platform, and analytics package has changed. Fast Company's executive editor writes: "For video, we migrated off an aging platform and onto the JW...

According to the web video tech company JW Player, 65% of video plays that happen via Chrome browsers start automatically, without a person clicking on a play button. More than half (53%) of videos that are played using Safari start automatically.

This Old House, a multiplatform media company with tie-ins to a popular PBS television program for DIY home improvement enthusiasts, is doubling down on its live offering using JW Player.

JW Player claims more than 20,000 customers, including enterprises such as Univision, Hearst, Red Bull, VICE Media and Bell Media. Its video player footprint spans 193 countries and is live on more than 2 million sites with more than 1.3 billion monthly unique viewers across all devices.

JW Player's Eric Boyd and Streaming Media's Tim Siglin discuss streaming players and delivering a consistent end user experience in this interview from Streaming Media East 2017.

It’s a bright day for JW Player. The network-independent video platform, whose customers span across 193 countries, has hired on Bill Day as its new Chief Operating Officer. The former Tremor Video CEO will be responsible for the company’s strategic leadership while also managing sales, product, marketing, business development,...

Publishers that sell out of video inventory quickly are trying to increase video engagement by improving the quality of the user experience – not just chasing reach at the most cost-effective CPM. For example, Little Things dumped autoplay, mobile interstitials and outstream in favor of click-to-play. “We wanted video...

Opera TV has entered into a partnership with the digital and mobile video platform and player company JW Player. As a result, Opera TV Snap and JW Player will enable the latter’s over two million supported websites to package online video channels into ready-to-run TV apps.

JW Player pioneered video on the web, and back in 2008 they were the world's first open source video player. Today, they've grown up and have customers spanning the globe from 193 countries.

2016 was a watershed year for video: Live streaming changed the face of broadcasting, delivering breaking news over social feeds; Apple and Google made their browsers consistent with the desktop versions allowing native app publishers to auto-start video playback inline on the page; and Flash's continued depreciation was a...

Video viewership inside mobile apps has been going down for several years now, according to video tech firm JW Player. In the last 10 months of 2016, the share of mobile video viewing occurring inside apps declined to 5 percent from 8 percent, according to a sample of 500,000...

Dave Otten, CEO and Founder, JW Player, expects programmatic to emerge as a key factor in over-the-top TV (OTT) environments, as well as desktop and mobile. “Programmatic will follow the eyeballs to OTT. There should be a lot of cross-platform targeting.”

JW Player’s John Luther, who spoke at Streaming Media West, shared some statistics about Flash, HLS, and DASH usage among the more than 2 million websites and 17 billion videos played per month using the player. Specifically, he reported that of the streams that JW Player delivered, 58 percent...

Little-known fact about JW Player: YouTube used a version of JW's video player for two years before Google came along. The company has been in the online video space since almost the start, and it's still fostering that startup culture.

Streaming with Facebook Live and YouTube Live is simple, JW Player knows, and that's the model it tries to match with JW Live, the live video solution launching today. According to the video player and platform company, JW Live is cloud-based, easy to integrate, and enterprise-grade.

Video player and platform company JW Player introduced a recommendation system today that creates personalized and updated suggestions for each viewer. Built entirely in-house, the system can create playlists based on trending videos (using real-time viewer activity to show what's hot at that moment), similar videos (recommending videos based...

“JW Player has been a terrific partner in our early successes,” said McClatchy's director of video product and operations, Meghan Sims. "JW Player 360° video technology is an important piece in the evolution of video storytelling here at McClatchy. And it's going to be a big part of some...

“This could be a big deal for web video. I think when people start adjusting their video players and websites there will be a significant uptick for publishers in terms of video plays,” said Jeroen Wijering, head of product at online video technology provider JW Player.

With Showcase, brands can create standalone video websites or create video-heavy sections for their existing sites. Those pages can be branded with your own logo and footer text. JW Showcase uses templates for fast site creation, and comes with two default themes: Light and Dark. If you have a...

JW Player Co-founder and SVP of Video Sales Brian Rifkin joins panel discussion at the Video Ad Summit about monetizing video content publishers and creators. The panelists addressed a number of critical issues including how to deliver world-class user experiences that combine both content and advertising, why it’s critical...

JW Player announced yesterday that it has added Univision as a new enterprise customer in the first quarter, a significant win for the company. JW Player’s platform is being used in part to support Univision’s streaming of the high-profile Copa America Centenario matches this month, including on its mobile...

JW Player scored a deal with Spanish-language television network Univision to support its online and mobile streaming efforts during the Copa America Centenario, a futbol tournament being played for the first time in the U.S. throughout June. The customer win was one of several "key first quarter" deals signed...

This week at JW Insights conference (hosted by JW Player), former Buzzfeed president and current founder of live stream news channel Cheddar, Jonathan Steinberg, proclaimed that a business created yesterday, can’t successfully be created tomorrow. Some might agree, but if any company is out to prove Steinberg wrong, it’s...

"We view it as another closed ecosystem," said Dave Otten, CEO and co-founder of JW Player, in an interview with FierceOnlineVideo. He said the enterprise-focused online video platform provider encourages its clients, such as Hearst, to publish not just on their JW Player-based platforms but also to YouTube, Vimeo,...

Tasting Table uses JW Player as its video player across its owned and operated sites, so when the video platform released an open-source Apple TV App builder this month, the publisher was among its first pilot customers. It worked with JW Player to create a tvOS app within days...

Enterprise online video platform provider JW Player is taking a bold step into the mobile app world. The company launched a new open-source product, Apple TV App Builder, which enables online video providers to create an iOS streaming app with "minimal" time and effort to configure and launch.

Developing an app rarely proves to be a quick, easy endeavor. Fortunately, several companies recently have launched app builders to help developers create innovative offerings for a range of platforms. Here's a closer look at three new app builders that may influence developers worldwide, both now and in the...

JW Player, best known for its video player, announced the launch of its new Apple TV Builder App. The app, the company says, allows customers to develop customized apps for Apple TV with minimal configuration, no coding, and no extra cost. The cooking-oriented media company Tasting Table was the...

The new Apple TV App Builder is designed to allow JW Player customers to develop a customised app for new, fourth generation Apple TV devices with no coding, minimal configuration and no additional cost. This is claimed to be the industry's first free app framework for Apple TV, and...

JW Player, the digital and mobile video platform and player, has unveiled its Apple TV App Builder, a new open-source product within the JW platform. The Apple TV App Builder enables JW Player customers to develop a customised app for new Apple TV devices (fourth generation) with no coding,...

Thanks to JW Player’s new tvOS app framework, Tasting Table was able to successfully build and submit an Apple TV app for review in less than 24 hours. JW Player’s new beta open-source product allows content makers on its platform to utilize what they already have created to build...

Though HLS only plays natively in the Safari browser on the Mac, most off-the-shelf players, such as JW Player, enable playback either via Flash or JavaScript, so achieving pervasive playback on Windows and Mac browsers is not an issue ... Interestingly, just before this column became due, JW Player’s...

You see a Sports Illustrated, or a GQ or People Magazine. If they decided they wanted to do a service, they could really knock it out of the park" ... The platform for such a service is already available from a number of enterprise-focused vendors such as JW Player.

JW Player, the advanced media player, has raised $20M in a Series D round led by Greycroft Partners and support from e.ventures, Cue Ball and Greenspring Associates. CEO Dave Otten has raised $45.6M over 4 rounds to date.

JW Player, which built a niche for itself providing an online video platform targeted to enterprises, capped off a year of growth by completing a $20 million Series D funding round led by existing investors including Greycroft Growth, Greenspring Associates, Cueball Capital, and e.ventures. The company plans to use...

JW Player, the video platform that competes with Brightcove and Ooyala as a service provider for major publishers, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by its existing investors – Greycroft Growth, Greenspring Associates, Cueball Capital and e.ventures. According to a release, the funding will be used...

JW Player has released its latest Trends in Online Video report, focusing on the viewing habits of 1 Billion unique global viewers. Key findings include: Only 10% of advertisements are delivered in a mobile-compatible format despite 30% of viewers using mobile devices to consume video. Ad-blocking technology usage continues...

According to recent research findings from JW Player, only 10 percent of all ads are mobile marketing compatible, which has – according to the report on the results – revealed that advertisers are greatly missing out on a highly engaged target audience that is considerable in size.

How common are ad-blockers? In a report that analyzes data collected through July, video player company JW Player says between 10 and 30 percent of people use them in different countries. Users turn to them to take back control over their online video experiences and because they're disturbed by...

While the market has solidified in many ways, the most strategic video standards have still not been adopted widely in the industry, especially by advertisers. We hope our Trends in Online Video Report helps to support the need for greater HTML5 adoption in order to reach viewers on mobile...

A new report from JW Player finds that 36% of viewing is done on mobile devices (30% on smartphones and 6% on tablets). Despite this, JW found that just 10% of video ads are delivered in an HTML5 mobile-compatible format. JW believes the key issue is that 60% of...

The fifth annual Streaming Media 100—our yearly list of the most interesting, important, and influential companies in online video— shows an industry that’s come into its own, one that some might even say has reached maturity. Only three companies—Akamai, Google, and JW Player—scored a perfect five from every judge.

With the rise of freemium games, studios have had to get creative in order to turn a profit and continue to produce high-quality gaming content. In-game ads have become prolific, with regular gamers having acclimated to brief interruptions with stagnant visual ads. This begs the question: are gaming studios...

AllDigital for Video Platforms gives content owners and publishers automated workflows to upload more than 300 professional video CODECs at industry-leading speeds. While uploading videos, the system analyzes the media to optimize it for global delivery across the Level 3 network with playback via the latest generation of the...

Video player provider JW Player has teamed up with content delivery specialist Vualto to make Vualto’s digital rights management technology available to JW Player’s video publisher customers. Vualto’s technology will be made available as part of its enterprise-level solution to enable JW Player's customers to offer DRM-protected premium content...

From King David to the Karate Kid, everyone loves a good underdog story. Long dismissed by purists, the vertical format (aka “portrait” orientation) is going mainstream and marking a major shift in the evolution of online video on mobile. It’s already creating waves in the industry: this week Instagram...

Version 7 of the popular player includes MPEG-DASH support, completely rewritten code that loads 35 percent faster than the previous version, and CSS skinning. "We're the first to deploy MPEG-DASH," says Jeroen Wijering, company co-founder. "We're the first one to put it in the market as technology to buy...

JW Player, co-founded by Jeroen Wijering, an online video pioneer, "created the open video architecture that formed the basis for the first version of YouTube." They recently made their "Pro" version free in an effort to provide brands with a more customizable video solution that works across any platform....

"We relentlessly strive to provide the most advanced feature set at the lowest economic cost to our customers," said Dave Otten, CEO of JW Player. "Moving the Pro edition to free is another example of our commitment to this longstanding mission. We believe that every publisher in the world...

In a bid to grow its market share among independent online video publishers, JW Player is announcing this morning that it is making the Pro version of its video player free. Important Pro version features include full control over player branding, 9 pre-built skins, social sharing, related video overlays,...

With Twitter following in Facebook’s wake with its recent launch of autoplaying video, autoplay has taken the crown as online media’s hot new fad. In fact, using autoplay results in significantly more impressions and, correspondingly, increased ad revenue. It’s easy to see why it’s becoming so popular with publishers...

Despite all the advances in online video in recent years, most publishers' approach to mobile video continues to fail. These challenges were discussed last month in JW Player's second annual JW INSIGHTS conference, which brought together video experts, influencers and partners from companies including Google, Popsugar and Verizon to...

Apps are everywhere. Today, native mobile apps (in contrast to browser-based web apps) offer a number of advantages to brands as well as consumers, many developers and device makers seem to think the app model can simply be cloned in other industries with the same success. They're wrong. John...

Video publishers are clamoring for a clearer monetization plan from Facebook. Although the reach potential is great – Facebook has 1.4 billion registered, active users – publishers still wonder if their third-party distribution efforts will ultimately undercut their owned-and-operated initiatives. Michael Hsu, PopSugar's head of video business development, summarized...

What’s the future of content distribution and monetization, particularly as major players like Facebook, Google and Verizon make strategic moves to capture more share in mobile video? This was the dominant theme at JW Player's JW INSIGHTS conference Tuesday in New York, where a group of execs from Google...

Attendees at the recent Streaming Media West conference got detailed instruction in using the JW Player video player thanks to Streaming Media contributor Robert Reinhardt. As part of his session, Reinhardt showed how to create a custom branded skin with JW Player, and also explained why that's important.

Do brand marketers need to know about HTML5 video? Only if they care about having their videos viewable by every potential customer on every device. The Apple iPad was released five years ago, and video player company JW Player chose this occasion to update its State of HTML5 Video...

Video platform company JW Player announced this morning the launch of its iOS SDK (software development kit). With the SDK, publishers can add JW Player abilities to their native iOS apps, including video playback and video ad insertion. The company notes that publishers can control the user experience as...

The latest version of the JW Player aims to improve an issue that many digital video publishers, networks, and brands currently face: content and IP protection. The release, dubbed version 6.12, includes a partnership with Microsoft to provide additional IP security functions via the software giant’s Microsoft Azure Media...

JW Player, the streaming video company that (in the words of its president Chris Mahl) helps online publishers find "life after YouTube, or life beyond YouTube," has made a big move onto mobile with the general release of its Android SDK. CEO Dave Otten characterized the Android launch as...

Adobe Digital Index’s Q3 benchmark report revealed that two tablet-size devices–Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy–are grabbing a huge share of video viewing rates. This is interesting in light of quarterly index report from JW Player showing that its streaming clients’ users watch video on tablets more than on...

JW Player is an increasingly popular online video player. “With 80 per cent of end users coming from outside the United States, our data represents a truly global audience, and we’re proud to showcase the growth of our network and share these insights on the online video industry as...

According to findings from online and mobile video platform and player technology specialist JW Player, one in seven people on the planet and one in three people in the US and Europe watch online video content delivered by it each month.

JW Player provides a clear example of how to monetize a data asset.

JW Player announced the release of the 6.11 version of its eponymous media player today. The biggest improvements this time are to HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) features, which include multiple audio track support and embedded WebVTT captions.

As part of a strategic move to manage costs and adapt to changes in audience behavior, Dish Network is preparing to remove a number of channels, including CNN, from its offering. JW Player’s CEO, Dave Otten, weighed in on this growing trend, “It used to be that the TV...

JW Player is named as one of the 8 interesting companies to watch as one of the great new infrastructure companies flocking to video’s modern-day Gold Rush to mine for online video riches.

We’re pleased to announce the Public Beta release of our JW Player SDK for Android. This software developer kit (SDK) enables publishers to easily build the JW Player video and advertising features they love into native Android apps.

When Maker Studios was sold to Disney for a record $900 million (if the final payout holds), the gauntlet finally was thrown down on how much investors and media giants would be willing to spend on multichannel networks, some of the newest disruptors in the online video space. There...

YouTube is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of the video world, but a crop of specialist video tech providers are carving out lucrative niches by giving publishers the tools they need to capture their share of the fast-growing video ad market. Just last week, venture capitalists plowed $20 million into...

Video startup JW Player has raised a fresh $20 million round of funding to grow beyond its status as one of the most used non-YouTube video players. It’s a SaaS video platform, and it powers one of the largest open-source video players available, so the chances are pretty good...

YouTube is often synonymous with video marketing. But when silly songwriter Weird Al Yankovic asked multi-platform content creator Nerdist Industries to help produce a music video for his new album release, the brand decided to go against the grain and rely on its own Web video player. Instead of...

Ad tag waterfalling becomes much less complex in this version, and publishers gain more precise ad scheduling. The improvements are coming fast for JW Player. Last month the company released version 6.9 of its player, adding Chromecast support for the desktop. Now, it’s released version 6.10, which should be...

The HTML5 element makes embedding videos into your site as easy as embedding images. And since all major browsers support since 2011, it’s also the most reliable way to get your moving pictures seen by people.

JW Player, a company that has developed an HTML5-based video player, has announced that a number of content providers that use its software are now able to stream their clips on Google’s Chromecast HDMI dongle.

What can brands new to the video space take away from the interest in clips like those from Weird Al? The massive scale that the “Tacky” video accomplished shows that independent video content publishing, particularly the “viral video” phenomenon, without YouTube is possible, and enables publishers to take more...

JW Player, a leader in online and mobile video, today announced that its advanced online video platform powered Weird Al Yankovic’s “Tacky” video on Nerdist. JW Player was used for the launch of the first video in the series of Weird Al Yankovic’s eight videos, with exclusive video content...

This is great news. JW Player is one of the most popular third party video player for embedded content. They have just added support for the Google Chromecast platform in the latest update.

In April of this year, it was announced that JW Player would soon be adding support for the Chromecast, and today the feature finally went live for everyone. For those unfamiliar, the JW Player platform powers a variety of popular websites including ESPN and millions of others. With today’s...

JW Player, a leader in online and mobile video, today announced that it has added key industry pioneers to its executive team to further drive innovation and growth in the company’s video technology solutions. Eric Hoffert has been named Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Product, and John...

For years an online strategy meeting went something like, “we really need to tap into those younger demographics online, let’s put together a YouTube channel and start marketing to them.” Later it became, “OK, we have a YouTube channel but we should do some online video advertising, on YouTube.”...

The march of content providers into the living room is getting yet another boost as JW Player, whose video solution is used by thousands of content providers, will support Chromecast. JW Player’s CEO Dave Otten and creator Jeroen Wijering told me yesterday that the beta is underway with 5...