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JW Player Overview

What is JW Player?

JWP is a video platform boasting 40,000 broadcasters, publishers, and other video-driven brands whose business relies on video as users. JWP provides these companies with a way to accelerate and scale their video strategy and is a video platform that can be used to stream video, engage audiences on any screen, and monetize content. Founded in 2004, the vendor states JWP customers generate 8 billion video impressions/month and 5 billion minutes of video watched/month. JWP is headquartered in New York, New York with offices in London, England, and Eindhoven, Netherlands.

JW Player Details
Languages Supported
English
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Seller Details
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JW Player
Year Founded
2004
HQ Location
New York, US
Twitter
@jwplayer
6,042 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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336 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent JW Player Reviews

Sabina M.
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Sabina M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"JW Player is so easy to use!"
I enjoy JW Player for its user interface and speed of upload!
David F.
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David F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"JWPlayer is functional and easy to use without being flashy"
We use JWPlayer to host videos for both internal and external audiences. The tool is simple, easy to use, and integrates with SSO.
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i dont like most things about JW player. It's been a struggle getting used to it and it continues to surprise me with things not going well
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JW Player Media

JW Player Demo - Accelerate your video stratgey
JWP's all-in-one SaaS platform for Live & VOD streaming easily scales your video strategy, removes the complexities of video management, and reduces time to market (TTM).
JW Player Demo - Best-in-class on-demand or live video streaming to any device
A superior viewing experience means quickly delivering branded video with the fastest HTML player on any device anywhere.
JW Player Demo - Provide superior viewing experiences
There are countless reasons users consume your video content, but the desired outcome is always the same: more views and more engagement. JWP transforms video delivery into a frictionless user experience that's designed to keep viewers on-site and coming back for more.
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JW Player Pros and Cons

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Sabina M.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

I enjoy JW Player for its user interface and speed of upload! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

JW Player is very easy to use, I have no complaints! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

JW Player is a perfect hub for uploading large amounts of content with ease! Makes my job so much easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David F.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

We use JWPlayer to host videos for both internal and external audiences. The tool is simple, easy to use, and integrates with SSO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

Only downside is the requirement to be emailed a unique code upon logging in via SSO. Minor pain point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need a hosting solution for videos to be playable internally to our network as well as externally via the same video file. JW Player accomplishes this easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephanie H.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

It's helpful because the upload time for videos is under :30 seconds and it keeps video content organized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

It's a bit hard to figure out when you first start using and you have to hover over assets in order to click on a box and move them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a fast upload speed in order to get videos into the player and then into our articles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about JW Player?

i dont like most things about JW player. It's been a struggle getting used to it and it continues to surprise me with things not going well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

It's difficult to distinguish between our different upload pages (we have 3 brands). The fact that I have to add my own source file name is ridiculous and repetitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

it isn't solving any problems, it's causing problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arianna H.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

JW Player has many different analytics and insights tools, including total plays, average video complete rate, devices, and countries. This makes it easy for our team to assess what our users are resonating with and what they aren't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

The app is quite expensive to use if you use it to host large volumes of content like we do on our platform. Otherwise, I am very satisfied with my experience using JW Player. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering JW Player:

I would take your budget into consideration and plan ahead before committing to a subscription. Some of the plans can be quite costly depending on your media storage needs. Find the most important data points you want to track with your content and do a deeper dive on those. You will learn so much valuable insight about your customers. We have found the data from JW Player to be tremendously impactful for us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streaming is fast and uploading content is extremely simple to do. It's helpful to be able to host content and get our analytics tools all in the same place rather than using multiple different services. The insights are very easy to understand and help us take action quickly. We are able to get a significant pulse on how our users are interacting with our content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about JW Player?

Its been a while since I had used JW Player, but, when I started at Ranker we did use it. It was interesting to use it to push videos out to various outlets / RSS feds, but, ultimately, Ranker did decide to stop using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

The interface was a bit clunky in cofiguring feeds etc. It worked, but, the user interface took some figureing - we used it to push out videos to MAZ in conjunction with a Roku (OTT) channel we had at the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering JW Player:

Its a decent option! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

I hadn't worked with JW player in a while, and we just took it for what it was as an optio to send out video playlists etc. if was good, just seemed a bit buggy we used it for OTT. When i started at Ranker all was set up, and I jut managed creating playlists / sending them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel C.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

At first we wanted to find only one solution to be able to insert videos on web pages, in this search for alternatives we have JW Player, the first impression is that it was easy to use, everything was neat and without any visible distractions in the player. Another feature within this facility that I indicate to you is how flexible it was to complete the integration process to the central CMS that we use, everything is unified so as not to use extra programs. In general, what I could say about JW Player is that on our part it is generally approved, with good technology, and it is important to make use of everything that the player offers, such as its analysis or ROI monitoring, so that the application strengthens your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

I would say that their video management is still somewhat poor, what they offer is completely efficient that I must say, but I would like to have multichannel publishing or audience segmentation, unless they offer this in more advanced payment plans, but it is non-existent and I see no signs of integrating these or other valuable features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering JW Player:

We all know that when we want to make our pages interactive, the first thing we insert are gifs and videos, we must avoid errors in the videos as much as possible, and guarantee our clients to enjoy the videos 100% of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

The integration with JW Player was fluid, it was a headache to search for software that would store and play video in the cloud, we found this one and we were able to dedicate ourselves to other things with more relevance within our marketing functions, without constantly come to the aid to be able to solve the structure of our video player, with tedious problems such as that the video does not go, disappears and other inconveniences that we cannot find in JW Player. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pablo G.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

JW Player is a software that has time, and that has always been friendly for the creators of web pages, this platform serves as lodging and reproduction of videos, so you can locate them in your web agina without having to use platforms that contain ads that interrupt your content, this player is characterized by its speed, in addition to being an HTML5 format, so in recent years it has become very powerful, also if you get the business package, you will get much more professional functions with the integration of analytics , which will give you the possibility of having personalized reports, with real-time data on how the statistics of your content are going, both on your website and on the different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

I had a rather intriguing mishap, since in some of our video it began to report an error at the time of playback, this error pointed to the video as if it was damaged, of course the first thing we did was validate the status on the video platform and it was completely fine, it was not damaged, we tried to contact customer service, and they did not give us any effective solution, so on our own we decided to download and upload the same video again, and it was solved, this made us see that the problem had it the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering JW Player:

JW Player, is one of the softwares of this style that is completely accessible, both for its plans, quite affordable, and its ease of use, in addition to that you will find depending on your needs a plan that will support you both for basic functions and to do it More professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a good player that has proven to adapt to different formats, it is always in constant update so there is no fear that it will be discontinued due to independent API updates, that has been a great relief, and that I would definitely like to continue integrating JW Player as hostel player for our video content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Todd R.
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What do you like best about JW Player?

What's to like if they will silence one of America's favorite media outlets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

They canceled the PragerU video hosting. Do not support this left leaning platform. They think choosing sides is a smart business decision. Go woke and go broke. Time for all of us to wake up and shut down the cancel culture and censorship of the Left. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

They want to block conservatives, this is a problem that only JWPlayer can solve, they won't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about JW Player?

I love how intuitive the website is. They just updated it so you can now tag videos straight from the home page. That and other new upgrades really make it user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about JW Player?

The website can get a bit slow at some times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is JW Player solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business I work for has an online portion of a school that we are uploading videos to everyday for people to watch throughout the United States. We needed a video platform to host all of these videos and JW Player is the best in the business. It is easy to upload videos and to embed them onto websites or playlists for other people to watch. They also make it easy to find different videos with their tagging system.

They are also great for live streaming and have not had failed on any of the hundreds of times we have used the platform to live stream as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.