development KVS 4.0 implementation (previously was 3.9.2)

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the beta? or Release oficial

 

Since this is a major new version it will be beta and only after some beta testing period (1-2 month usually) it will be available for public download. This is the way we always do for major updates.

Any customer can request beta update by contacting support. We only make an update available after we are 100% sure it doesn't have any critical issues, since many our clients have multi-million traffic sites.

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We've added one more feature to the advertising module - ability to show different ads in different browsers.

 

It looks like Google Chrome will start advertising crackdown soon, disabling popunders, floating ads and some other. It may be extremely important to use different advertising strategy for different browsers, so KVS will now allow this as well in addition to device type restriction:

[vqporn]

We've added one more feature to the advertising module - ability to show different ads in different browsers.

 

It looks like Google Chrome will start advertising crackdown soon, disabling popunders, floating ads and some other. It may be extremely important to use different advertising strategy for different browsers, so KVS will now allow this as well in addition to device type restriction:

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Very good only with the devices was enough, this very good, thanks for implementing it.

 

When the final version comes out I want to update thanks.

 

 

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Please contact support, the version is ready but not yet announced.

[vqporn]

Please contact support, the version is ready but not yet announced.

 

Thank you I already sent the ticket, another thing can upload videos of virtual reality?

 

Thank you.

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Thank you I already sent the ticket, another thing can upload videos of virtual reality?

 

Thank you.

 

You can upload such videos, but KVS player doesn't support VR, so you should be using 3rd party player for playing them.

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Due to high demand for paysites we also added support for displaying videos and albums from future updates.

 

In list_videos / list_albums blocks we introduced mode_futures parameter, which will enable block to display only content from future period. The important thing to consider here is that such content will not be available via direct links, because the content still 'doesn't exist', but you can still show it as a list of the upcoming content.

 

This functionality is fully compatible with relative post dates, when content is appeared differently for different members depending on their registration dates.

 

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We continue to put fixes towards to 4.0.1 as a result of beta testing by some volunteer projects.

 

There is an additional set of player fixes and enhancements.

 

1) Mobile players will render mute button, previously mute button was hidden on mobile devices. The mute button seems to be required by some advertising publishers. If you are using custom player skin, you may need to adjust it so that volume button is displayed in controlbar.

 

2) Advertising will not be closed anymore when it is clicked (this affects start ads, pause ads and pre-roll / post-roll ads). In case of preroll ad users will have to wait for the advertising to complete / or skip button available in order to continue to a video.

 

3) Enhanced anti-adblock feature. Previously it replaced player immediately disabling ability to watch a video. This might be considered as a red flag for SEO, since some users would simply close the page. Now it will work in another way: it will allow user to play video for some time (configurable) and then it will emulate video player crash with ability to show your custom content instead of player. You can use this to notify your adblock users that they may want to disable adblock plugin for your site to continue watching. We believe this will be a better trade-off between maximizing revenue and SEO.

 

This functionality was tested in Chrome, Firefox and Edge with popular adblock plus plugin.

 

 

 

With regard to adblock, some reports suggest that currently 30% of desktop users are using adblock plugins. Taking in consideration that desktop users are approx. 50% of tube traffic, you may be losing up to 15% of revenue. Some well-known advertising providers are getting completely blocked with stock version of adblock plugins. Recently we updated a tube network to 4.0 and all advertising displayed there was not visible at all. Per our experience very few webmasters are using adblock plugins and thus they are not even aware of this issue.

 

The recommendation is to always check your advertising with adblock plugin enabled to make sure that it is not truncated, otherwise you may need to re-think your advertising strategy.

 

Also here are some tips that you should follow:

- Never use CSS styles having "ad" or "ads" or "adv" or "banner" or anything like that for advertising sections. Such sections will be automatically truncated by the most of adblock plugins. Use random character sequences for these style names.

- Never use a folder named "advertising" or "ads" to server any files from it, these files will not be loaded for adblock users.

- Never use advertising files having popular advertising sizes in their filenames, e.g. "banner-800x60.jpg" and similar. Rename your advertising files to neutral filenames.

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When exporting videos, it is now possible to select duration format to be HH:MM:SS, previously KVS would only export duration as a number of seconds. Exporting feeds are also affected.