TechValidate Research on JW Player

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690 Customers Surveyed

4,786 Data Points Collected

26 Published TechFacts

6 Published Charts

21 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


JW Player Case Study

Forbes.Com.Mx

Introduction

This case study of forbes.com.mx is based on a December 2020 survey of JW Player customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“JW Player enables us to provide best-in-class viewer experiences, and supports our goals for growing video engagement, reach and revenue.”

“Not quite sure yet "

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select JW Player:

  • The top challenge(s) facing their video business in 2021:
    • Insufficient advertising demand (low ad fill and/or CPMs)
    • Increasing video engagement (average viewing sessions)
    • Doing more with less (due to cost cutting, and overall business climate)
    • Producing and/or acquiring more video content
  • The three main drivers on why their company signed/renewed a partnership with JW Player:
    • Deepening viewer engagement with their video content
    • Increasing video advertising revenue

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of JW Player that the surveyed company uses:

  • How they use JW Player:
    • Web video players (desktop and mobile HTML5 players)
    • Video Streaming (hosting, transcoding and playlist management)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with JW Player:

  • The vendors they evaluated before choosing JW Player:
    • Brightcove
    • YouTube
  • Rates JW Player compared to other video platform solutions:
    • video viewing experience: significantly Better
    • advertising Revenue: significantly Better
    • ease of use: better
    • expanding reach on new screens / platforms: better

JW Player Customer Testimonial

Ads and IMA support
Continous delivery of new features

Sundip Shah, Developer, Web Application, Bell Canada

JW Player Customer Research

Please rank how critically each of the following criteria would impact your decision to switch video creation / editing solutions.

Mission Critical Very Critical Critical Not Critical
Ease of Use: functionality that anyone can master

30%

26%

27%

17%

Cost: cheaper than current solution

20%

29%

32%

19%

Library of pre-licensed content

11%

20%

23%

46%

Easy integration with video provider

25%

27%

25%

23%

Speed: reduces current time spent on content creation

28%

41%

23%

8%

Automatic video content generation

12%

23%

18%

47%

Ability to integrate with my site for end-users to create content

14%

19%

26%

41%

JW Player Customer Research

9 out of 10 companies rate JW Player better than other platforms for their video needs

Please rate JW Player compared to other video platform solutions:

Best in class Significantly Better Better Not Better

Video viewing experience
Advertising Revenue
Ease of use
Expanding reach on new screens / platforms
Breadth in developer APIs and documentation

JW Player Case Study

Www.Simplilearn.Com

Introduction

This case study of www.simplilearn.com is based on a December 2020 survey of JW Player customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“JW Player enables us to provide best-in-class viewer experiences, and supports our goals for growing video engagement, reach and revenue.”

“JW player is serving videos to millions of our customers and play significant role in overall edtech video streaming business”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select JW Player:

  • The top challenge(s) facing their video business in 2021:
    • Doing more with less (due to cost cutting, and overall business climate)
  • The three main drivers on why their company signed/renewed a partnership with JW Player:
    • Reducing video platform costs
    • Scalability and performance of (live) video delivery
    • Breadth and ease of use in developer APIs

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of JW Player that the surveyed company uses:

  • How they use JW Player:
    • Web video players (desktop and mobile HTML5 players)
    • Mobile SDKs

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with JW Player:

  • The vendors they evaluated before choosing JW Player:
    • Brightcove
    • Video.js (in-house solution)
    • Flowplayer
    • AWS Elemental
  • Rates JW Player compared to other video platform solutions:
    • video viewing experience: best in class
    • ease of use: best in class
    • expanding reach on new screens / platforms: significantly Better
    • breadth in developer APIs and documentation: significantly Better
  • They increased the volume of video published by 30-40% with JW Player.

JW Player Customer Testimonial

JW Player was one of our key partners in 2020, always helping us and providing permanent support.

Valentin Stoica, Ad Ops Manager, RCS&RDS Romania



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About JW Player

JW Player is the New York-based company that pioneered video on the web and continues to innovate for the future. As creators of the world’s first open source video player in 2008, we powered the original YouTube and have since expanded to video hosting and streaming, advertising, and analytics for 1 billion monthly unique viewers in 200 countries

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