Advertising with the FreeWheel Plugin Changelog

The following tracks changes to the plugin:

Changelog

05 Mar 2023

v4.1.2

  • Bug fix: Remove skipforward/ back buttons from ad player

30 Mar 2020

v3.5.2

  • Bug fix: Allow play_request before adstart

18 Mar 2020

v3.5.1

  • Added support for minDuration and maxDuration to temporalSlots
  • Fixed compatibility with Video.js 7.7.x

3 Dec 2019

v3.5.0

  • Added support for minDuration and maxDuration to temporalSlots

4 Sep 2019

v3.4.0

  • Resized the ad container when the playerresize event occurs
  • Update the FW SDK URL
  • Fixed a sizing issue with VPAID ads

20 Mar 2019

v3.3.1

  • Bug fix: Ensure duration is a float when sending to FreeWheel SDK to properly set vdur param in URL
  • Support newer coding standards (vjsstandard 8)

2 Jan 2019

v3.3.0

  • Added autoplay handling

13 Aug 2018

v3.2.0

  • Fix link to Live Player documentation PDF
  • Add isVpaid convenience method to FreeWheel plugin

13 Jun 2018

v3.1.0

  • Added behavior to hide player overlays during ad playback
  • Fixed bug where an empty VAST response would prevent content playback on Android
  • Fixed bug where content couldn't be resumed following a VPAID ad clickthrough
  • Added ability to set Freewheel SDK parameters via plugin options
  • Added ability to set the Freewheel SDK log level via plugin options

7 Mar 2018

v3.0.0

  • Changed default tech order to be HTML5-only
  • Default value for pauseOnAdClickthrough has been changed from false to true
  • VPAID clickthrough area now resizes with player
  • Added loadWithCookie option
  • Removed defunct nativeHlsForceHtml option
  • Plugin now respects relative URLs in configuration
  • Updated videojs-contrib-ads from 4.2.7 to 5.1.6
    • Clear timeouts when player is disposed
    • More reliable media events, including loadeddata and loadedmetadata
    • Emit an error if plugin is initialized too late
    • Fixed a bug where certain ad errors would not end ad mode
    • Improved compatibility with Video.js 6
    • Fix issue where captions could show during ads on iOS
    • Fix snapshot.trackChangeHandler bug
    • Fix bug with play state after source changes
    • Fix issue where content would restart after iOS midroll
    • Fix issue where loading spinner would not animate before ads
    • Fix issue with caption state persistence
    • Other reliability improvements

19 Jan 2018

v2.9.0

  • Added pauseOnAdClickthrough option
    • If set to true, linear ads will pause when clicked
    • Default is true
  • Freewheel AdManager loading is now subject to the plugin's timeout setting; This prevents content flash that could result from the FreeWheel AdManager taking a long time to load
  • Fixed a content flash case with prerolls and autoplay
  • Fixed an issue with playlists where improper source cleanup caused issues when there was no preroll
  • Fixed an issue where ad progress was not updated when there were multiple instances of the player

4 Jan 2018

v2.8.6

  • Use separate ad container for Safari 11 desktop again
  • Fixed a bug where the content plays behind an ad when in a separate ad container

13 Nov 2017

v2.8.5

  • Fixed an issue with play button when autoplay is blocked due to not meeting autoplay requirements

12 Oct 2017

v2.8.4

  • Fixed a bug addressing Safari 11 Desktop's new autoplay behavior preventing autoplay and click-to-play ads from playing
  • Added handling for a new Freewheel SDK event, EVENT_AD_AUTO_PLAY_BLOCKED, to display a play button when Safari 11 prevents autoplay ads
  • Fixed a bug where video did not pause when user clicked through on pre, mid or post-rolls (pause on companion clickthrough not supported)
  • Fixed a bug where VPAID ads did not start playing in the correct size
  • Fixed a bug where VPAID ads did not resize after calling player.dimensions() to resize the player
  • Fixed a bug so we do not call slot.stop() on ad error (Flash)
  • Fixed a bug causing an incompatibility with Brightcove Video Player versions 6.3 and up

5 Sep 2017

v2.8.3

  • Fixed a bug so slot.stop() not called on ad error
  • Fixed a bug where the big-play-button and poster displayed during prerolls

17 Aug 2017

v2.8.2

  • Added ability to use subsessionToken in options
  • Fixed a bug where slot impression would not fire on empty preroll
  • Bug fixes for oncue mode

21 Jul 2017

v2.8.1

  • Implements a dedicated ad container for desktop browsers. FreeWheel Html5 ads will no longer reuse the player's video element on desktop.

17 May 2017

v2.8.0

  • Video.js 6 support
  • Exposed FreeWheel parameters
  • Fixed bug where you cannot un-mute the player once you mute it on Safari
  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.2.7
    • Placeholder div's CSS position and top values now match the player's
    • Cross-compatibility between Video.js 5 and 6
    • Added a way to estimate adType
    • Added back support for ES3

27 Mar 2017

v2.7.1

  • Enabling support for ES3

16 Feb 2017

v2.7.0

  • Plugin now chooses an adTech after a content source is set; this allows playlists with mixed content types to be used with the plugin

2 Feb 2017

v2.6.1

  • Fixed a bug with progress bar during Flash VPAID ads playback
  • Fixed a bug where user chooses to manually enable the Flash Player in Chrome Browser
  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.2.2
    • Re-fix iOS content flash
    • Added cuepoints example
    • Documented contentresumed event

4 Jan 2017

v2.6.0

  • Added support for cueTextTracks feature in videojs-contrib-ads so cue points can be used to trigger ads
  • Fixed control bar in Flash to use localized text
  • Added ability to pass a custom visitor ID to FreeWheel
  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.2.0
    • Added a new module to process metadata tracks for ad cue point manipulation
    • Updated videojs-standard dependency

20 Dec 2016

v2.5.1

  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.1.6
    • Fixed placeholder div on iOS 10 playsinline
    • No longer sends an undocumented adcontentplaying event, which was only sent to cancel an extra adplaying event; code has been refactored to not need this extra event

9 Dec 2016

v2.5.0

  • Bug Fixes
    • Plugin now prevents ad clickthrough when clicking progress bar during ad
    • Ended event now triggers correctly after the content ends additional times, having ended once already
    • Fixed some scenarios in which ad requests were made twice
    • Plugin now correctly handles empty ad creative and plays content without ads when no ads present
    • Captions and audio track buttons are now hidden during ads
  • Feature Update
    • Plugin now passes autoPlayType in Flash

21 Nov 2016

v2.4.1

  • Added dev dep on videojs-standard
  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.1.4
    • Fixed issue where blank div to prevent content flash covers ad on iPad
    • Fixed to snapshot test to avoid relying on track src

2 Nov 2016

v2.4.0

  • Enabled volume persistence across ad breaks
  • Added support for page variable ad macros
  • Added support for mediainfo custom field ad macros
  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.1.1
    • Temporarily re-added contentplayback as a transitionary step; do not use this event, use playing instead
    • Added macro support in contrib-ads

24 Oct 2016

v2.3.0

  • Updated to use videojs-contrib-ads 4.0.0
    • playing event no longer sent before preroll
    • contentplayback event removed
    • Fixed a flash of content introduced in Chrome 53 where ads-loading class was being removed too soon
    • Added player.ads.VERSION
    • Updated to use conventions put forward by generator-videojs-plugin
    • Created separate files for feature modules

22 Sep 2016

v2.2.0

  • Flash uses real timing info for progress bar
  • Smooth progress bar
  • Send nopostroll and nopreroll events when economics is free
  • Update to videojs.contrib-ads 3.3.13
    • Fix check to reset snapshot on contentupdate

19 Aug 2016

v2.1.5

  • Update to videojs-contrib-ads v3.3.12 to include fixes for metrics on empty ad

27 Jul 2016

v2.1.4

  • Update to videojs-contrib-ads v3.3.10

13 Jun 2016

v2.1.1

  • Update to videojs-contrib-ads v3.3.7 to include fixes for
    • Bug where content would replay after a postroll completed
    • Bug where two ad-end events would fire

9 May 2016

v2.1.0

  • Added Macros support
  • Added player.mediainfo.economics support

20 Apr 2016

v2.0.0

  • Updates for compatibility with Brightcove Playlists
  • Introduces new event for updating FreeWheel Configuration object: fw-before-ad-request

31 Mar 2016

v1.0.0

  • Updates for compatibility with Brightcove Players v5.*

1 Mar 2016

v0.7.2

  • Updates to the latest FreeWheel HTML5 and Flash SDK
  • Fixes issues related to FreeWheel's video view beacons

15 Sep 2015

v0.5.1

  • Exposes FW events

15 Sep 2015

v0.5.0

  • Fixes midroll skipping for both adtechs

15 Sep 2015

v0.4.1

  • Fixes bug with "keyValues"

15 Sep 2015

v0.4.0

  • Ads "keyValues" support for Flash ad Tech

7 May 2015

v0.3.5

  • Fixes video replay after postrolls in HTML bug

17 Apr 2015

v0.3.4

  • Generates id's for FW Config temporalSlots.
  • Note: temporalSlots.id is optional for Clients, but code wise required when adding a temporal slot

17 Apr 2015

v0.3.3

  • Removes partial support of FW Video NonTemporal Slots

17 Mar 2015

v0.3.0

  • Add html5 midroll support.