Our last platform update brought several excellent additions to the Brid.TV platform, like the introduction of tag competitive bidding and DRM support. And this time’s no different.
Today’s platform update focuses on several significant improvements to our ad serving system and a few notable quality of life features.
Let’s take a quick look at what came with the 6.2.5. update!
Introducing Dynamic Ad Insertion Support
As of this platform update, Brid.TV player now fully supports Google’s dynamic ad insertion. This technology lets publishers stitch their ads with their video content in a single video stream to help them reduce buffering latency and make delivering videos to the OTT realm easier.
You can learn more about this technology at this link.
New Picture-in-Picture Support for the Brid.TV Player
Another exciting feature publishers can now use is to enable the picture-in-picture option for their players. That means their users will be able to minimize and resize the player at will and keep watching content while browsing other pages.
This feature is fully supported on Google Chrome, Safari, MS Edge, and Opera browsers. On mobile devices, the picture-in-picture feature is supported on Android Chrome and iOS Safari.
Trim Videos Straight from the Brid.TV CMS
As of this update, publishers can now also trim videos straight from the Brid.TV CMS. Publishers can choose to save the trimmed video as a new file or overwrite the source. This quality of life change means that making small edits to videos will be that much easier.
Publishers can access this feature from the new Video Editor section from the Video Settings screen in our CMS.
Full 6.2.5. Changelog
Here’s a complete list of changes that came with the 6.2.5. update:
New
- Added support for Google’s Dynamic Ad Insertion for server-side ad insertion. Visit this link for more information.
- Added picture-in-picture support for the player. More information on this feature can be found here.
- Added basic video editing functionality to the video edit screen so now you can crop and trim your videos after upload.
Added
- Improved our backend for creating custom snapshots for videos so this process should now work slightly faster.
- Updated our Prebid.js builder wizard to give back human-readable error messages in case a build fails for any reason.
- Added a GDPR-friendly option for the player which, when enabled, the player will not use any method whatsoever to track a user or use any kind of method to store data on the user’s machine.
- Added custom offset sticky settings for Brid in-slide ad units.
- Added API endpoints to fully support DRM videos.
- Improved our Prebid.js bidding calls to take into account click-to-play players and do bidding only after click-to-player has been clicked.
- Improved our API endpoint for editing Brid players so that you can now add/edit Prebid.js bidders.
Fixed
- Fixed a minor bug when on Mac Safari where the player would not force the mute state of the player to maintain autoplay functionality on some rare occasions.
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If you have any questions about this update or need help with anything, get in touch with our support team over Brid.TV Zendesk or email.
