Product Release Notes

Below are recent product updates for April - June 2023

Video Cloud

Feature: New Ad Insights feature

Product Area: Analytics

Date: 2-June-2023

Description: In this topic, you will learn how advertising insights can help you optimize your ad monetization plans.

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Feature: Support for the new version of Google Analytics (GA4)

Date: 2-June-2023

Description: Steps for migrating from UA to GA4 added to Integrating with Google Analytics section.

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Feature: Brightcove QoE Analytics

Product Area: Analytics

Date: 28-April-2023

Description: In this topic, you will learn about Quality of Experience (QoE) analytics associated with Brightcove Player.

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Feature: Dynamic Ingest API ingest queues and priorities

Product Area: Platform APIs

Date: 28-April-2023

Description: Updated concurrent job and ingest queue limits for changes.

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Feature: New Interactivity Module

Product Area: Interactivity

Date: 21-April-2023

Description: Interactivity documentation and videos

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Brightcove Player

Feature: pause_in_background_tab

Product Area: Viewability settings

Date: 9-June-2023

Description: Added new pause_in_background_tab settings

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Feature: Seek buttons

Product Area: Plugins

Date: 14-April-2023

Description: In this topic, you will learn about the seek buttons plugin for Brightcove Player. This plugin will allow you to seek forward/back through a video for a configurable amount of time.

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Device SDKs

Feature: iOS SDK Version 6.12.2

Product Area: Native SDK for iOS

Date: 23-June-2023

Description: Brightcove Native Player for iOS release

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Feature: Android SDK Version 8.1.1

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 19-May-2023

Description: New release (8.1.1) of the Android SDK

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Feature: SpringServe Ad Macro support

Product Area: Ad monetization

Date: 7-April-2023

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to take advantage of ad monetization when using client-side ad insertion (CSAI) with the Brightcove Native SDKs.

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Live

Feature: Supported AWS regions

Product Area: Live jobs

Date: 16-June-2023

Description: Updated supported AWS regions to include Seoul (ap-northeast-2)

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Feature: Live Automated Captions

Product Area: Captions

Date: 28-April-2023

Description: Added support for automated captions

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Feature: Live input max bitrate

Product Area: Live Streaming

Date: 21-April-2023

Description: Changed the maximum input bitrate from 10 MBPS to 20 MBPS

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SSAI

Beacon

Feature: Template for Google Looker Studio

Product Area: Analytics

Date: 30-June-2023

Description: Updated with Looker Studio and GA4 events and parameters

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Feature: Engagement Insights

Product Area: Insights

Date: 26-May-2023

Description: In this topic, you will learn how Engagement Insights for Beacon allow you to understand viewer engagement and optimize your content strategy.

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Feature: Thumbnail Scrubbing Availability

Product Area: App Behavior

Date: 14-April-2023

Description: Feature availability table updated to show thumbnail scrubbing available for all platforms except Smart TV

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Feature: Evergent SVOD trials

Product Area: Monetization

Date: 7-April-2023

Description: Updated for Evergent SVOD trials

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Audience Insights

Brightcove Interactivity

CorpTV

Zencoder

Feature: CAE a la carte

Product Area: CAE settings

Date: 21-April-2023

Description: Updated settings for CAE a la carte

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Feature: Creating an account

Product Area: Accounts

Date: 14-April-2023

Description: New required fields for the create new account operation

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