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JW Player is a trademark of Longtail Ad Solutions, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in New York and founded in 2005. The firm also has offices in London and Eindhoven. The company began as an open source project which powered an early version of YouTube. Today it reaches over a billion unique viewers per month.
- Fast HTML5 player that works on all mobile and desktop browsers
- Javascript APIs allow extensive player customization
- Content suggestion algorithms to enhance engagement
- Real-time analytics
- Prices start at $5/month
- Password-protected sharing
- Live event streaming
- No revenue share; all ad revenue to the poster
- Multi-bitrate HD encoding
- Over 1 billion monthly unique global viewers
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Warning: JW Player is discriminatory and censures open dialogue and learning, by restricting and not allowing videos that are not left-leaning. For example, they are canceling services for Prager U which is an educational platform. JW Player does not support the 1st Amendment assuring all of us Free Speech and the open dialogue of all viewpoints.