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Unboxing our Upgraded Live Platform

This is more than just an update, it’s a transformative upgrade. 

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Press release – Shorts

We’re happy to announce we’re introducing Shorts: an engaging feature that allows users to harness the power of short-form videos.

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Channels just got even better

We’re excited to share the latest advancements we’ve made to our Channels feature.

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Product update

We’ve added and improved some features to our platform to help you achieve your goals with video. In this update, we’ll highlight the latest developments.

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Our new player skin–Behind the scenes of the design process

To give you an inside look into the design process, we sat down for a chat with our product designer Deniz Topuz.

New and improved player skin
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Low-code, leaner, faster, greener: our new player skin

Our improved player puts your content in the spotlight by loading your content faster than ever and offering even more customization options.

Chapters
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Feature announcement: Chapters are here

We’re launching our newest Chapters feature, that allows you to break up your video content in multiple sections.

Ad Schedules
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Get even more out of your ad schedules

Are you looking for ways to optimize your instream ads and maximize your revenue? Our ad schedules help you achieve just that.

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Platform update – July 2022

In this update we’ll share the highlights of our new features and improvements in the Online Video Platform.

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Platform update – Projects Analytics

The new and improved Projects Analytics provide you with more insight into the performance of your interactive videos than before.

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Platform update – Channels, backup streams & more

In this update we’ll share the highlights of our new features and improvements in the Online Video Platform.

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Platform update – improved analytics

The video analytics in the Blue Billywig platform are getting an update in terms of speed, efficiency and user-friendliness.

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Feature release: PPV and SVOD services

Blue Billywig further expands its offering with the launch of par-per-view (PPV) and subscription based (SVOD) services.

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OTT apps across all your major platforms

We’re happy to announce the launch of OTT services, allowing all of our clients to easily roll out OTT apps across all major platforms.

Ad Schedules
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Introducing Ad Schedules

To help get the most out of instream advertising and get the timing for ads just right, there’s a new feature available in the Online Video Platform: Ad Schedules.

Native SDK for iOS en Android
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Native SDK for iOS and Android

With the Blue Billywig native SDK, users can quickly and easily add native videos to their iOS and Android apps.

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Platform update – Trimming videos, Project Context and more

Read this update to learn everything there is to know about the most important new features and improvements to the Online Video Platform.

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Personalized video: rendering now available

In our Online Video Platform, it was already possible to create real-time personalized videos, but we’ve just added the option to render the personalization within your video.

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React: gathering feedback on your videos just got easier

With React, you can quickly and easily collect feedback for both linear videos and interactive projects.

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Platform update – advertising

Read this update to learn everything there is to know about the most important new features and improvements to the Online Video Platform.

Platform update – creating and editing subtitles
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Platform update – creating and editing subtitles

We’ve added functionality that allows you to add new subtitles as well as edit existing subtitles directly in the Online Video Platform.

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Platform update – floating player, encoding & reporting

Read this update to learn everything there is to know about the most important new features and improvements to the Online Video Platform.

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Platform update – new features and improvements

Read this update to learn about the most important new features and improvements to the Online Video Platform.

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Platform update – YouTube Playlists, Templates & Datafeeds

The first two sprints of 2021 have already been completed and the development team has added some great features to the platform.

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Product Update: Dynamic Content Based on URL

We previously introduced the dynamic loading of content based on local storage and Javascript, and now it’s possible to use the video’s embed URL with the improved Data Source Selector.

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Platform update – user-friendliness

The last quarter of 2020 the development team focuses on improving overall user experience within the online video platform.

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Platform update – speed & efficiency

This quarter our developers focused on ways to improve player reliability, speed, efficiency, and taking steps to ensure that our platform is future-proof.

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Web guidelines and new Speech to Text feature

As of 23 September, all public sector websites in Europe must comply with the WCAG legislation on web accessibility.

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Moving thumbnails, usage statistics and automatic deeplinks

We’re happy to share some new features we’ve recently developed and added to the platform. Read on to find out more about moving thumbnails, usage statistics and automatic deeplink domains.

Prebid Adaptor and Prebid Renderer
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Blue Billywig Prebid Adaptor and Prebid Renderer

We’ve added functionality that allows you to add new subtitles as well as edit existing subtitles directly in the Online Video Platform.

Interactive video studio launch
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Interactive Video Studio Launch

Get ready to make your videos more engaging than ever before, get actionable insights, wow your viewers, and more!

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New: automatically generated captions

Making use of captions is a great way of ensuring your video content is accessible for all your viewers. With this new product update adding captions becomes that much easier!

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Product update 2020

We have a lot to catch up on regarding 2019 and the years ahead. So watch the product update video and get the update on all the developments.

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Blue Billywig Product Update

In addition to bug fixes, we’ve added some new features and have further improved existing features.

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Podcast & vodcast in RSS feed

With the RSS feed configuration you can submit podcast and vodcast content to external apps and platforms, directly from our platform

Prebid Player Bidding
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Prebid Header Bidding

As a publisher, you want value for your money. So, it is important to create the most optimal setup for the monetization of your video impressions.

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Get ready for the launch: OVP7

Creating an interactive video can be quite the project; setting up goals and KPIs, drawing out the various steps and paths in a flowchart and measuring these steps right down to the click.

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WACG Web guidelines Update

A small change with a big impact: we’ve improved the contrast of the subtitles in our video player.

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Online Video Platform 6: designed for users

When we first started working on the renewed interface in October 2014, we hardly knew what to expect.

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Outstream Advertising SDK’s & VAST Tester

Monetizing your in-app inventory has just become easier with the release of our iOS and Android SDK’s for outstream video ads.

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Size Matters: the format makes the video

Videos appear in many shapes and sizes. A video player within an app has different measurements to a video player on a website.

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Sneak peek: our future video transcoding platform

This blog post will delve into details of the current video transcoding infrastructure and provides you with a sneak peek of the near future.

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7 tips to create effective interactive videos

How do you use our Interactive Studio in an efficient way in larger projects or when you work with it on a regular basis? In this post I would like to share some tips on how you can do this.

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360 video through the eyes of our developers

We’ve decided to ask our developers everything we wanted to know about 360 video.

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Using data in interactive video

Today I’d like to explain a bit more to you about the different options you have when working with data in our interactive video module “Timeline”.

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More on SEO: Deeplink tutorial

This post explains how you can implement link building for your videos to improve your video SEO with our Online Video Platform.

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Video SEO: optimize automatically and easy

When it comes to video SEO we realize it can get too technical too fast: it’s not always easy getting the right metadata on the same page with the accompanying video.

How to build a custom video player: adapt screens
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How to build a custom video player: adapt screens

In this tutorial we’ll further improve the custom skin of our HTML5 video player with a start- and end screen.

Pixel perfect interactive video elements
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Pixel perfect interactive video elements

Have you ever wanted to add interactive elements to a video based on a design, but found that you couldn’t get it exactly right in your video? Well, recently I found myself in that situation.

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Video SEO how-to: Video Rich Snippets

You’ve probably read a few things about video video SEO: what it is, what it can do for you, how important it is for increasing your video audience.

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Adding more advanced HTML5 video player custom controls

The Blue Billywig video player already contains a skin that contains all functionality that you would expect from a video player, and can be perfectly tailored to your needs.

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Personalized Christmas video

A new feature in our Interactive Video Studio makes personalized video easier: you can use a value from the page’s URL as a data source.

Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery and other session hijacking tricks
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Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery and other hijacking tricks

An open and interconnected application infrastructure is a reality for more and more companies each day. Keeping these types of open infrastructures secure for users is a challenge.

Debugging an AngularJS application
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Debugging an AngularJS application

Recently, we started development on the new version of our Online Video Platform. We decided to build OVP6 using Javascript, and specifically the AngularJS framework.

How to Style a Video Player
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How to Style a Video Player: the basics

In this blog you’ll learn the basics of how to style a video player. We’ll look at code architecture, play/pause, mute/unmute, time display.

Round vs. rectangular interactive elements
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Round vs. rectangular interactive elements

It’s now possible to style interactive elements in your video with rounded corners.

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Video Analytics: the processing platform

Initializations, views, percentage viewed, (unique) visitors: Just some of the terms and metrics often mentioned in relation to video analytics.

Record and publish video with your smartphone
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Record and publish video with your smartphone

Delivering breaking, high-quality footage to your audience has never been more convenient and easy, using your own smartphone.

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Inline video on iPhone

In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge first animated his racehorse images with his zoopraxiscope into something that looks like video as we know it today.

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Video in email: Today or tomorrow?

Let me start this blog post with some general advice: You can and should be using video in email today!

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Who’s afraid of VPAID?

In this first blog I would like to let you in on our advances in VPAID technology, sparked from the often-overlooked Javascript/HTML5 section of the VPAID spec.

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Big News! The introduction of a unique Player 5

We’re proud to announce the introduction of a new version of our video player to your Video Management System.