JW PlayerTM 6 Features

All Screens

Look your best on every device, every time

JW Player 6 automatically selects the optimal features for a user's device and browser, so your video is guaranteed to look its best in every situation. That means on smartphones and tablets, HTML5 perfectly resizes your video, without you having to do a thing. On desktop browsers, both HTML5 and Flash are at your disposal for the optimal playback experience. Learn More

JW Player is optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens

All Media

Play any video, no problem.

JW Player works with all the most common video and audio formats, so you won't have to deal with encoding issues to get your media up and running. Want to deliver streaming? We are the leader in video streaming, and setup is a snap. Learn More

JW Player supports MP4, WebM, and FLV video formats, the most common audio formats, and HLS and RTMP streaming

JW Player in the Cloud

The easiest way to go live.

Getting video live on your site and looking just the way you want it is easier than ever when you use our new cloud-hosted JW Player. Let our Publish Wizard generate your embed code, and let your player keep itself up to date. We highly recommend our cloud-hosted player for maximum simplicity, speed, and reliability, but we always provide a download option as well. Log into your JW Player Account for everything under one roof - your player, configurations, video analytics, and support.

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Adaptive Streaming

The leader in HLS live streaming on iOS and Flash

If you want to stream video, JW Player can take you where others can't. The undisputed leader in video streaming, we are the only major player delivering HLS streaming on both iOS and Flash and live streaming with both HLS and RTMP. Our CDN support runs broad and deep. Special partnerships with Wowza, Amazon CloudFront, and Akamai means seamless integration with your JW Player. Learn More

JW Player is the leader in HLS live streaming on iOS and Flash and RTMP streaming

All New UX

Video experience
re-designed for iPad and mobile

Built exclusively to showcase your video, our sleek and subtle design invites more clicks and user engagement right from the start. Your video will look as great on mobile as it does on the desktop because JW Player 6 provides a consistent viewing experience in HTML5 and Flash. What's more, we've integrated a host of exciting features as well as eight amazing skins into the player, for maximum customizability and extensibility. Learn More

JW Player provides a video user experience great for iPad and Google Nexus

Skins

Get seamless visual design with your site

Going for a clean, classic look? Or something more stylish? JW Player 6 comes with eight professional skins, built by our design team. For even more possibilities, design your own skin. It's easy to customize the face of your JW Player with our skinning model! Learn More

JW Player skins let you customize your player to match your site's look and feel

Integrated Features

Most popular player with the most popular features

In response to popular demand, we integrated our most popular plugins into the new JW Player itself. Now when you get JW Player 6, you also get Social Sharing, Related Videos, Google Analytics Plugin, Captions, HD Switching, and more. All these features have been totally updated for JW Player 6, plus you'll get our all new Video Analytics. As always, JW Player 6 lets you create playlists, skin your player, and extend it using our Javascript API. With its comprehensive integrated feature set, JW Player 6 is ready to rock and roll, right out of the box! Learn More

JW Player 6 has our most popular features built in (sharing to Facebook and Twitter, Google Analytics plugin, and more)

Ad Ready

Start advertising in minutes

Need to deliver video ads on your website or blog? JW Player Ads is the complete solution to all your video advertising needs. With built-in VAST/VPAID support, you can deliver ads from any VAST-compliant ad server or ad network. You can also take advantage of our premium ad partner integrations, such as with Google IMA. We help deliver billions of ads per month. Learn More

JW Player Ads is VAST-compliant and is the full solution to all your video advertising needs

Video Analytics

Insight into your video views

With JW Player 6 you get a free user account with access to our all new Video Analytics. From your analytics dashboard, you can track video views, viewers, and time watched and break down your data by domain, device, geo, and more. We are constantly adding even more great reports.

Watch your views go up in time as you implement a data-driven video strategy! Learn More

JW Player's video analytics dashboard provides insight into your video views

Our JW6 WordPress Plugin

Be one of the 300,000 using our WordPress Plugin

JW Player is the most popular third party video player on WordPress, and with our new plugin, getting JW6 on your WordPress site is even more seamless. Cloud-hosted JW Player loads automatically and player updates take care of themselves when you update your plugin! We've extended our deep WordPress integration, so you embed videos with JW Player directly from the Media Library. Now you also take JW Player's full integrated feature set onto your WordPress sites - set your own logo, load skins, play HLS streams or VAST or IMA pre-roll ads.

Get our JW6 WordPress plugin and give it a try!

WordPress

JavaScript

Fully customizable and always open source

Once you put our API library on your server, you can easily call functions on a player, listen to events from a player, chain your API calls with jQuery, and implement Javascript plugins. We make it easy for you to go wild with your own video–page interactions and integrations with your favorite applications. Your code will work with with both HTML5 and Flash, so you can streamline your development process. Our developer community is constantly pushing the envelope on what can be done with online video -- Join us! Learn More

JW Player is customizable and extensible with our JavaScript API and is open source forever

Wizard

We'll get you up and running

You tell us how you want your player setup, and we’ll write you the code. Choose your video and poster image, player size, autostart option - just let us know what you have in mind. With our JW Player 6 setup wizard, you don’t have to be a professional programmer to have access to professional-grade publishing!

Need a bit of help getting everything the way you want it? Our wizard will get you squared.

JW Player's startup wizard makes it easy to get video on your website

Compare Plans

Choose the JW Player that's right for you

We rebuilt JW Player 6 from the ground up, so we’re sure you’re going to love whichever edition you choose. JW Player Free is the perfect starter player for non-commercial sites. It includes all our core features including full HTML5 and Flash playback, our all new iPad-inspired UX, plus Video Analytics with your free account. JW Player Pro is our basic business edition: In addition to the core features, it lets you remove our watermark and brand the player as your own. We recommend JW Player Premium to anyone looking for great value - you get our full integrated feature set inside the player. Lastly, JW Player Ads includes everything in the premium player plus the ability to run VAST/VPAID ads with your own ad server or any of the leading ad servers or networks.

To view our complete offerings and compare plans, visit our Pricing page.

Choose a JW Player edition for you: Free, Pro, Premium, Ads, or Enterprise