Release Notes for Webcast

To help administrators have an overview of Webcast owners, the event owner name is displayed in the event list.

For more information about when the event owner name is displayed, please consult this article.

Webcast Consumer now supports sign languages for English and German, in addition to the existing language sets.

You can learn how to add these languages in this WebcastManager article;  a complete list of the supported languages can be found in a related article.

As well, new layout is now available in Webcast Consumer: "Player with Language Selection".  If enabled, viewers will only see the player and can choose their preferred language directly within the player.

For more information about other available layouts in Webcast Consumer, consult this article.

You can now protect Webcast content with by enabling watermarks containing the user ID of the employee streaming the content in Webcast consumer. 

Available for SSO-enabled Webcasts, this dynamic overlay helps prevent unauthorized sharing, ensuring your content is secure and traceable.

More information can be found in this article.

You can download both analytics reports directly from Webcast Manager or from your analytics account, if your account is enabled for analytics.

If you do not have analytics enabled, you can still download from the basic report from Webcast Manager in the Customer tab.

Note that for private Webcast events, only the creator of the Webcast event and users assigned the role of event editor can access viewer statistics within the WebcastManager.

For more information on how to download viewer statistics, consult this article.

In Webcast Manager, you can now create public and private accounts at the customer level. With a private account, you can create private events that are not visible to anyone else. 

In these private events, you can also assign roles to members of your organization.

For detailed information about enhanced access control, please consult this article.

To ensure that only authorized users can access Webcast events, you can enable the use of HMAC (hash-based message authentication code) tokens for user authentication.

For more information, please consult this article.

To facilitate Webcast event access for SSO groups and ensure flexibility in permission assignment, you can use wildcards for SSO group names to include a larger user group.

For more information, please consult this article.