February 5, 2023
Specify the time your video should be available to watch
October 3, 2022
Save time and costs by generating subtitles automatically
March 14, 2022
Videos can be a valuable part of email marketing
November 18, 2021
Improve accessibility and increase your audience by using subtitles
July 1, 2021
A new dark colour palette can help improve battery life when using an OLED screen
March 22, 2021
Add lazy loading to your iframes so that they only load when they need to
March 1, 2021
Some people ask why not just use YouTube for all our videos, as it is free?
February 25, 2021
Utilize your video content to stand out and increase organic traffic from search engines
December 15, 2020
We have been busy improving the video CMS, redesigning the player and fixing various small problems
May 14, 2018
The latest update brings many improvements, large and small.
February 28, 2018
This weekend we released some key updates to the system
January 17, 2018
A brand new video player is being rolled out for 2018. It has many improvements over the old one.
October 19, 2017
The transcoding pipeline has been completely rebuilt. Jobs are now queued more efficiently.
July 31, 2017
We've been busy making changes to the video CMS
June 20, 2017
When a user signs in, they can now see more of your videos
April 27, 2017
The latest update introduces a new type of user, along with assorted improvements to the system
March 22, 2017
Our video player has been redesigned. It now has a modular design, extra features and an improved interface.
March 5, 2017
Continued work on the back-end has further improved performance, with the addition of new options
March 1, 2017
We've been working on the video transcoding pipeline and have made some big improvements
February 4, 2017
This week's update brought mainly behind-the-scenes improvements to analytics and other parts of the back-end
January 7, 2017
The New Year update brings new encoding profiles, along with some useful minor changes
December 17, 2016
Our standard player should suit most requirements however you can adjust its appearance to match your brand
December 5, 2016
The latest update includes many small changes to the admin panel, along with two new types of report
November 25, 2016
New features being rolled out this week include native HLS support, grouping content - and a new Q/A format of overlay
November 11, 2016
You can now set your overlays, such as gates, to be shown before the video loads
November 7, 2016
Our latest update adds support for video gating and iframe-based overlays, along with general design improvements
October 28, 2016
If you have a video filmed in 360, our player supports that option
October 28, 2016
This weekend we rolled out a new version of our player. It includes many improvements.
October 25, 2016
Protect your videos using Digital Rights Management
October 24, 2016
Adaptive streaming (HLS and DASH) is our default method for delivering video content
October 7, 2016
Upload a video, we process it, then, once complete, we provide a snippet of code you can simply copy and paste
October 4, 2016
The latest update includes a new way to let viewers comment on your videos, and improvements to our documentation
September 20, 2016
Web pages are more resource-intensive than ever. The protocol used to deliver those resources - HTTP - needed an upgrade to match.
July 29, 2016
The latest update includes many improvements. The main one being the completely rebuilt live streaming system.
July 11, 2016
In common with all major video platforms, we use an iframe to let you embed a video player on your own pages
June 29, 2016
The latest update includes the roll-out of HLS, support for signed cookies and even a brand new HTML5 video player
May 24, 2016
We have made managing video content even easier within our online video platform
March 8, 2016
If you would like to incorporate a frame from one of your hosted videos (usually for a thumbnail image), it is now even easier
March 7, 2016
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It is an open source initiative to optimise pages for mobile devices.
February 22, 2016
When you invite a new user, you can now choose whether they can sign in to the admin panel
February 15, 2016
Since the platform is a video CMS, each account includes a channel which acts as a front-end to your content
December 23, 2015
If you have built an application that uses our video CMS API, you can use pagination to handle a large set of results
December 21, 2015
We have made some improvements - many behind-the-scenes, but some more obvious
December 16, 2015
We support passing some additional attributes in a SAML Assertion
December 15, 2015
You may spot a problem with a video after embedding it. You can replace it.
December 8, 2015
Organise your content using groups. These are like folders, but with the flexibility of tags.
December 4, 2015
You might like to briefly show your logo at the start of your videos ... you can with pre-rolls.
November 26, 2015
If you would like the system to build a playlist for you, you can specify how
November 16, 2015
You can be emailed a report that summarises recent views of your content
November 3, 2015
We have redesigned the admin panel based on Google's own design guidelines to make it even easier to use
September 10, 2015
We have added a new report to let you quickly see how many views each of your videos has had
July 6, 2015
Enable two-step verification (also known as multi-factor authentication) to add another layer of security
June 30, 2015
Rather than being split over multiple sections, we've added a new combined account section
June 15, 2015
As part of our latest update to the platform, we have provided a selection of new roles
June 8, 2015
The platform automatically generates a selection of images but you can pick your own
May 21, 2015
We have made it easier to query your video analytics ... introducing Vidbeo Insights
May 11, 2015
If you need to stream a live event over the web, you can easily do so within our online video platform
April 24, 2015
The Vidbeo video CMS has always supported captions in multiple languages, but now it is even easier to add them
April 13, 2015
If you permit someone (or an application) to add videos to your account, you can set their videos as needing approval
March 19, 2015
It is useful to be able to see how much data has been transferred and we've made it even easier
March 4, 2015
Yesterday researchers disclosed a new vulnerability with encrypted connections. This is known as the FREAK attack.
February 24, 2015
If you would like only certain people to be able to watch a video, you could ask them to enter a password.
February 18, 2015
If you are using a custom domain, you will see we also make use of private unbranded URLs
February 9, 2015
Since configuring single sign on (authenticating using a SAML identity provider or Microsoft's Active Directory) is complicated, we've written a guid
February 5, 2015
We now let you rebuild video sitemaps, rather than having to request a new one. This means that you can keep the same URL
January 19, 2015
Assigning a role to a user is how you control what actions they can perform. We've written a guide to help explain how they work
January 19, 2015
On selected pages within the Vidbeo admin panel you will now see a help tab on the right of the page. Click that to find out more about the various options.
January 16, 2015
It is now even easier for you to see how much data has been transferred each month
January 14, 2015
When you watch a video within our player, you should now find that when you put the cursor over the progress bar that a small frame appears
January 9, 2015
Previously you could only upload a video file from your computer's local drive. Now, you can simply provide a URL.
January 7, 2015
We thought we would share an example of the technical problems we encounter dealing with Internet Explorer
January 5, 2015
If you would like to incorporate the Vidbeo platform within your own application, we have fully documented our Data API and Player API