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Google Analytics is a key product in the web analytics eco-system and SublimeVideo supports it almost since its debut but it was a manual and in some ways unpleasing process to perform.
Today, we are pleased not only because we’ve been able to simplify this process, but also because we now provide you with some cool unique features compared to other video players, thanks to our new Google Analytics add-on!

Reading through the whole Event Tracking guide of Google Analytics takes a lot of time and there are a lot of little details to take care of: event naming, bounce rate impact, events per session limit, etc.
Now, this is all taken care of for you with our new add-on, so you can be just one click away (if you already have Google Analytics installed on your website) from performing events tracking on the core player including: video load, video start/end, source quality selection, etc.

But there’s more, it gets even more interesting when used along with other add-ons. For instance:

• The On-Video logo add-on will report clicks on your logo.
• The Social sharing add-on will track clicks on sharing services icons.
• The Auto-embed add-on will take care of reporting events under a special “SublimeVideo – external sources” category.

And we will add tracking events for every new add-on (when it makes sense), so you don’t really have to worry about updating your code every time you upgrade your player.

The SublimeVideo Google Analytics add-on is now available with a 7-day free trial, just like all our paid add-ons.

We hope you’ll like it and we’re looking forward to hearing your feedback. Happy analytics!

In this second episode of our new SublimeVideo How-to Video Series, we will show you how to display your logo on your videos with the SublimeVideo On-video logo add-on.

Check out the documentation to learn more about it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment with suggestions.

We are very pleased to announce our advanced SublimeVideo Player API. It will consist in roughly 20 new API methods and 10 new events, extending our current API, giving you more control over your player and its integrations into your site. We are going to release them gradually over the coming weeks.

SublimeVideo Player API is part of our core player and is free to use for everybody. Today we start with 5 new methods and 3 new events:

New methods:

• seekTo()
• duration()
• playbackTime()
• videoWidth()
• videoHeight()

New events:

• seek
• metadata
• timeUpdate

Thank you to give us your feedback in our community forum.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Player API methods and events!

Since the release of the New SublimeVideo Player in December 2012, the WordPress plugin has received 4 major releases and 3 bug fixing releases (view the full change log).

Better YouTube integration

The latest major release (1.8.0) adds the YouTube integration right into the visual editor! Even though the YouTube integration was possible since the version 1.5.0 through a shortcode setting, the plugin was missing the nice UI touch that’s already present in our Video Publishing Assistant.

Open-sourcing the plugin

Today, we are also very excited to open-source the WordPress plugin on GitHub. We strongly believe in open-source projects and we think this will allow our users to directly propose new features and bug fixes right from the project’s issues tracker!

We hope you enjoy our SublimeVideo WordPress plugin, and if you do, please give it a good rating/review in the WordPress plugins directory.

If you have any comments or feedback, please let us know in our community forum or directly in the GitHub project’s issues tracker.

Note: The plugin is licensed under GPL2 (as requested by WordPress).

On February 7th we released the SublimeVideo Embed Add-on. Today we are going a step further with the brand new Auto Embed add-on!

The free Embed add-on allows your audience to easily share your videos by embedding them into their own sites or elsewhere on the web. However, like any other manual embed solution, this requires you to create a “special” HTML page and keep it in sync with the video you want to make embeddable. Let’s be honest, that’s an annoying and repetitive task!

Thanks to our new Auto Embed add-on and the power of SublimeVideo’s Cloud architecture, this is now a thing of the past! The new Auto Embed add-on takes care of everything and manages all your embed files automatically so you don’t have to code or keep anything in sync. Please learn more in our documentation.

The Auto Embed add-on is now available with a 7-day free trial, just like all our paid add-ons. We hope you’ll like it and we’re really looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Here’s our new SublimeVideo How-to Video Series. This first episode will show you one of the coolest and most unique new SublimeVideo features: the SublimeVideo YouTube integration, and how easy it is to play any YouTube video with your own SublimeVideo player.

Check out the documentation to learn more about it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment with suggestions.

February has been a pretty nice month for us: we released two new add-ons (Social sharing and Embed) and exited the beta of our new SublimeVideo Modular Player. Well, we actually have one more thing in store for you before the end of the month!

A lot of you asked for cue points support. Today we are pleased to introduce our new Cue Zones add-on, which allows to handle cue points in a more powerful way.

A cue point is a user defined marker at a specific time in the video when a custom event is designed to occur: you can perform a JavaScript action once the playback reaches that point of the video. The Cue Zones add-on allows you to define not only a starting but also an ending point – hence “zones” – in your video where those custom actions should start and end occurring.

This add-on opens the door for tons of possible applications, such as:

• Your video presents a product? Now you can display purchase links, images or any other additional info about the product around the video.
• Your video is showing a person speaking at a conference? Now you can synchronize the presentation slides next to the video.
• You can use Cue Zones to create chapters in your video.
• You could also use this add-on to dynamically display ad banners directly related to the content currently viewed by your audience.

These are just some simple examples of how you can use the Cue Zones add-on but the possibilities are infinite! We are sure many of you already have a lot of cool ideas on how to use it and we look forward to seeing what you’ll create with it. We invite you to read the documentation to learn more and see some examples.

It’s now available with a 7-day free trial, just like all our paid add-ons.

We are happy to end February with 3 new add-ons and we look forward to releasing new features in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Hi everyone, we are fine-tuning our SublimeVideo service every day and we just decided to move from 30 to 7-days free trial duration, effective today. We would like to explain why we think this makes more sense, especially with our new add-ons-based business model.

Along the launch of our SublimeVideo Horizon player framework 2 months ago, we also actually made a substantial switch to our business model:

• Our previous model was a freemium bundle-based model with monthly or yearly subscriptions. We were charging you in advance the amount corresponding to the bundle and duration you chose.
• With our new model, and because our player has now become fully modular (yeah, we’ll never stop repeating how great this is), we decided to switch to a daily metered usage model of the add-ons you use and to charge your total usage at the end of each month. This is similar to what companies like Heroku are doing and we always liked their approach: great freemium and flexible paid features store.

The new add-ons metered model is really customers friendly: You assemble your player by shopping for the features you want and only pay for what you really need. Moreover you can activate or deactivate add-ons freely on a daily basis: There’s no rigid bundles anymore, which always contain a mix of useful and useless features, your player’s features set is exactly as you want it.

With the previous pre-paid bundle approach, it made business sense to offer our customers a single 30-days free trial but with the fluid add-on based approach billed post-usage, 30 days is not necessary, especially as this is no longer a single free trial but several free-trials which we offer you, on each paid add-on, separately. For this reason we believe the sweet spot is to have a week to test an add-on.

All the paid add-ons you activate from today will have a 7-day free trial and any paid add-ons you activated previously will of course complete their previous 30-days duration.

Two months ago we launched the beta of our new SublimeVideo Modular Player. It was entirely rewritten using our new SublimeVideo Horizon Framework, providing a much more scalable architecture and some unique features on the market.

After just two months, we are very happy to announce our new player is ready for prime time and is exiting beta today!
We are quite excited with the performance of our new SublimeVideo Horizon technology and we are ending the beta period earlier than expected.

This means all of our users have been automatically upgraded to the new player and everybody can start enjoying all its new features, including:

• the much improved mobile support with no feature or design degradation on the latest mobile platforms
• the world’s first cross-platform vector graphic engine delivering a perfect user experience, from legacy browsers (such as IE 6) up to the latest mobile platforms (such as Android 4+ smartphones or iPads)
• our seamless YouTube integration
• two new player designs
• the ability to display your logo on video
• embed and social sharing features
• keyboard control on desktop
• responsive layout support
• and much more upcoming features planned for the coming months!

Learn more about all these features.

PS: A note to our beta users: we recommend that you update your loader code to remove the “-beta” part in the URL.

Last Friday, we released our Social Sharing Add-on. Today we are pleased to release our brand new Embed Add-on. This Add-on will be free for all our users.

Many are already providing an option allowing to embed SublimeVideo players, but until today the only way to do that was to manually provide a code outside the player, which is not exactly straightforward. Plus, as soon as the video was embedded somewhere it was in most cases impossible to re-embed it again, drastically limiting the sharing range of the video.

Today we’ve solved this issue by releasing our new free Embed Add-on, which will provide you with an in-player embed button that will stick to your video wherever it is embedded. Moreover, we added an option for your users to choose a custom size before embedding the video. The only thing you have to provide is a URL on your HTML page that will be used for the embed iframe, learn more about this in our documentation.

And of course, thanks to our powerful and unique cross-platform support, this Add-on works everywhere, including the latest mobile platforms!

You can begin using the new free Embed Add-on now. We hope you like it and we are really looking forward to hearing your feedback.

As explained in previous posts, our new SublimeVideo Horizon player framework allows us to deliver new features much faster than before, so stay tuned for more add-ons coming soon!