JW Player - A great video platform
Overall Satisfaction with JW Player
JW Player is our video player across our network of sites. JW Player is only being used as a platform to serve our editorial video content as well as some pre-roll. The problem it addressed was simple... we needed a video player for the website and they were able to provide those services with great tech, and competitive pricing.
Pros
- Simple, intuitive User Interface.
- It's incredibly snappy - almost no load time ever.
- Time to render and transcode is also super fast.
- Good service and sales support - the people who came in and pitched to us were knowledgable, flexible, and smart - that went a long way to getting our business.
Cons
- I could use a little more info on some of the videos. an info panel with things like, for example, bitrate would be helpful.
- Our previous video player had a publish to YouTube button - so that with one button it took care of a whole other channel. That would be nice to see.
- I'll be honest, i don't really have a lot of points here. In my experience, it's a solid, all-around well built platform.
- We've seen a video stickiness. Users are watching more videos than they were previously
- Our ad serving solution is smarter, and we have more flexibility about where to slot in pre-roll between videos.
- Also ad serving related, we have more transcoded sizes to choose from and better overall video quality than our previous provider
JW had more player options, a better/more intuitive user interface, was altogether faster both in rendering the uploaded videos and in time to load on the web page. The integration with OpenX for pre-roll was faster and easier than with Brightcove, and lastly, they offered a great price for service.
JW Player Feature Ratings
Using JW Player
4 - Editorial - creating uploading and broadcasting of content
Ad Ops - Pre and Mid roll advertising
IT - Player Management
Ad Ops - Pre and Mid roll advertising
IT - Player Management
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