JW Player is making its Pro player edition free of charge. As part of the pricing change, the digital and mobile online video player, intended for all content creators and publishers, will include complimentary custom branding capabilities, viewer analytics and video hosting. In addition, the company will include its iOS and Android SDKs as part the Enterprise and Ads editions.
Each tier receives:
Pro (now offered for free): Full control over player branding (with no JW Player watermark) as well as nine pre-built skins, social sharing and related videos overlays, 5 GB hosting and 25 GB streaming, video engagement analytics, player and platform APIs. Current JW Player customers who were utilizing the paid "Pro" version will be upgraded to "Premium" at no additional cost.
Premium ($299/year): All Pro features plus adaptive streaming with DASH (coming in JW7 in August) and HLS streaming with multi-track audio, live with DVR windowing, VTT and 608 captions, direct email support
Enterprise: All Premium features plus high-volume hosting and streaming, content protection functionality with DRM (coming in JW7) and AES decryption and geo-blocking, Android and iOS SDKs, priority email support
Ads: All Enterprise features plus high-volume ad delivery, IAB VAST/VPAID support, Google IMA integration, scheduling and waterfalling, ads-enabled mobile SDKs, advertising player APIs
