JW Player Reviews

Pros
They've come a long way, staying up-to-date with best practices, and we haven't had a problem with our videos for years now. Very stable and highly recommended.

Cons
They're player is great and would use it any day, their platform is fairly limited in storage and plays etc without paying high enterprise rates that every year we have to negotiate to keep it where we are, the prices seem to skyrocket.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
Uploading is easy and the dashboard is fairly easy to work.

Cons
No easy way to add a clickable link to a video (as you can in say, YouTube). This really needs to be addressed. Updating is slow, when you make changes to something. I would recommend it deal with podcasts in a true podcast manner, allowing easy (key word here is "easy") download button for podcasts, so people can download an listen to them offline.

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

Pros
Very intuitive interface Javascript API well documented Customization of web player Network speed during video streaming

Cons
Space used is the sum of original video and all the versions (on different format/resolutions) Price is very high, specially for small project Limit on both bandwidth and number of plays

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

Pros
I used JWPlayer for many years in our custom applications. From back in the Flash days and well into the HTML 5 craze, this player served us well. It's extremely robust and the API is better than any other player I've used which makes it a great choice for customization.

Cons
After buying a license several years ago, I find an email last month in my spam folder from Longtail informing me they would start charging me monthly. For what? They were not hosting my media files and I wasn't even using their CDN. I had a few other less than pleasant experiences with their support team so I finally decided to drop JWPlayer.

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Likelihood to recommend: 2/10

Pros
It is one of the fiercest competition to youtube integration on other websites out there and that's a fact I appreciate.

Cons
I do dislike that you're being limited quite a lot with it. Also the fact that your link cannot be downloaded isn't so great.

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Pros
This may have been the easiest implementation of a tool I've ever experienced. Beyond that, it's so easy to use, you barely have to think about it after a while.

Cons
I honestly can't think of anything I don't like. We really haven't run into any problems at all.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
- Reliable player for contents from flash era to current HTML 5 era. - Video analytics similar to YouTube analytics. - Videos of a business are protected, and can be host in local servers.

Cons
- Price is on the high side. - Does not play 4K content properly.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
I like the fact that the software was designed to play all types of media files

Cons
The design is poorly done which makes it less attractive

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Likelihood to recommend: 7/10

Pros
Great support. (They need it though, considering the bad product.)

Cons
They will get you in a year long contract. Product will not work for the international customers. You will have to refund, support, and have your support team be consumed with JW Player issues all the time. However, JW Player will continue to bill you with their less than ethical pricing and billing behavior.

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Likelihood to recommend: 0/10

Pros
JW is the #1 solution for most companies who make it a priority to host videos on their own servers. Users can track the video's analytics, similar to the YouTube analytics page, as well as customize the video players.

Cons
However, there are some negatives. The website is sometimes hard to navigate, given the wealth of features. Also, you have to take into account the costs that come with having a feature-rich account. You have to wonder, is hosting your own videos with custom video players really worth the cost of using JW Player?

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Pros
Nothing really differentiates this product from other options that are available. You can do much better for less money and fewer headaches.

Cons
They sell that they are "business" ready, there servers are on blacklists for adult content, their policy is they don't have any, but try telling that to your client that won't allow you content through their firewall. When I discuss it with them, they won't move the servers or do anything about it.. To add insult to injury, after cancelling they still renewed my annual subscription and I now need to fight to get that charge fixed.. A big bag of headaches.

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Likelihood to recommend: 0/10

Pros
it is a great software especially if you want to protect you content online like videos from unauthorized downloads it makes it more difficult for people to take content on your blog without your permission

Cons
however it does not completely secure your content there can still be unauthorized downloads if people use some other tools on your site

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
JwPlayer always stays up to date with the newest technologies including, streaming of videos and different codecs. Makes it easy to implement multimedia playback on websites and mobile apps.

Cons
Sometimes it can be a little difficult to setup advanced features with JWPlayer. Hopefully, they will come out with a standard for DRM protection of videos.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Its nice flash video player for your own site or blog. Customizable and and also have free version which is good.

Cons
Can be more customizable. Paid version is expensive. Need more improvements. Customer support can be better

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

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Pros
It was easy to download and has a logical interface and a lot of additional features that I wouldn't expect from a video player .

Cons
A number of formats I tried seem to quite clunky and did not play back as smoothly as I hoped . When introducing 4K, the problems got worse .

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Pros
Plays almost any video format you throw at it. Easy to use implementation tools. Very stable.

Cons
I have not come up against any cons yet.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Was easy to setup and use as my 1st player years ago.

Cons
No real problems experienced at the time of use. Have not tried in recent years.

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Likelihood to recommend: 5/10

Pros
The price seemed to be the only thing JWPlayer had going for it. For 60/year I could host 50 videos*.

Cons
Storage caps at 50 videos or 25GB. A 2 GB video takes up almost 4GB of storage for some reason. Zero customer support.

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Likelihood to recommend: 2/10

Pros
JW Player has provided everything we were looking for in a vendor and has filled the gap for our video hosting solution. It's very easy to upload and embed a video using their system.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10