JW Player
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Jeroen Wijering |
| Headquarters | New York City,New York |
| Website | jwplayer |
JW Playeris aNew Yorkbased company that has developed avideo player softwareof the same name.[1]The player, for embedding videos ontoweb pages,is used by news,video hostingcompanies, and for self-hostedweb videos. The company has also created the video management software "JW Platform", formerly known as "Bits On The Run".[2]
History
[edit]JW Player was developed in 2005, initially as anopen-sourceproject.[2]In December 2015, JW Player stated that their software is no longer offered with an open-source license; instead it is offered with aCreative Commons licensefor non-commercial use.[3][4]The software is named after the founder and initial developer Jeroen Wijering.[5]It initially was distributed via Wijering's blog. In about 2007 it was integrated into the advertising company named LongTail, which was renamed after the software in 2013. In 2008 a company, headquartered in New York, was formed which continued to develop and distribute the player.[6]
During the early development, before it was purchased by Google,YouTubevideos were streamed by JW Player.[7][8]In 2015, JW Player was rewritten to reduce size and load time. Version 7 was licensed under the proprietary Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. It had integrated support forHTML videoandFlash Video,[9]allowing video to be watched on phones, tablets and computers. That year the company's paying customer base grew by more than 40 percent to 15,000, 60% from the USA. 2.5 million websites used the free edition, playing about a billion videos per month.[9][10]
In 2016, the company released a new simpler-to-use version of its product, entitled JW Showcase.[8]JW Player continues to be used by many companies, includingESPN,[7]Electronic Arts,andAT&T.
Features and licensing
[edit]JW Player isproprietary software.There is a basicfree of costversion distributed under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States(CC BY-NC-SA)[11]license in which videos are displayed with an overlaid companywatermark,and a commercial 'software as a service' version.
JW Player supportsMPEG-DASH(only in paid version),Digital rights management(DRM) (in collaboration with Vualto), interactive advertisement, and customization of the interface throughCascading Style Sheets.[9]
References
[edit]- ^Cheredar, Tom (17 September 2014)."With $20M, JW Player wants video publishers to look past YouTube".VentureBeat.Retrieved14 April2015.
- ^abRyan Lawler, 24. October 2013:LongTail Video Rebrands As JW Player Because That’s What Customers Know Them For.Archived.
- ^Walch, Rob (2015-12-22)."Software License".GitHub.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-11-18.
- ^Walch, Rob (2020-12-22)."Please remove" open source "from README.md".GitHub.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-11-18.
- ^Jocelyn Johnson (VideoInk), 18. January 2016:5Qs with JW Player’s Jeroen Wijering and Chris Mahl
- ^"JW Player Raises $20M To Help Video Publishers Look Beyond YouTube".Tech Crunch,Sep 17, 2014 by Anthony Ha
- ^ab"How JW Player became the largest video player behind YouTube and Facebook".The Drum,7 August 2015 by Natan Edelsburg
- ^ab"JW Player’s New “JW Showcase” Further Enables DIY Streaming Services ".VideoInkJocelyn Johnson | Aug 23, 2016
- ^abcTroy Dreier (Streaming Media Magazine), 13. August 2015:JW Player 7 Released, With DASH Support and Speed Improvements
- ^Anthony Ha (TechCrunch), 5. January 2016:JW Player Raises $20M To Expand Its Video Platform
- ^"license specification of non-commercial version, Github".GitHub.
External links
[edit]- Official websiteof the company
- Git repositoryof the "non-commercial version"