TechValidate Research on JW Player

Introduction

This case study of Newsflare is based on a January 2021 survey of JW Player customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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:
  • Reaching audiences on new screens (Roku, Apple TV, etc)
  • 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:
  • 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
  • Video Streaming (hosting, transcoding and playlist management)
  • Analytics

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with JW Player:

• The vendors they evaluated before choosing JW Player:
  • Brightcove
  • Flowplayer
  • AWS Elemental
• Rates JW Player compared to other video platform solutions:
  • video viewing experience: best in class
  • ease of use: significantly Better
  • breadth in developer APIs and documentation: better

Introduction

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

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)
  • Exploring and optimizing subscription and/or pay per view revenue models
  • Developing more compelling live video experiences
  • Producing and/or acquiring more video content
• The three main drivers on why their company signed/renewed a partnership with JW Player:
  • Scalability and performance of (live) video delivery
  • Increasing productivity of their video team

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
  • Analytics

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)
  • Vimeo
  • AWS Elemental
  • YouTube
• Rates JW Player compared to other video platform solutions:
  • video viewing experience: best in class
  • ease of use: better
  • expanding reach on new screens / platforms: significantly Better
  • breadth in developer APIs and documentation: best in class
• They increased the volume of video published by 50-100% with JW Player.