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Sharing (Your Stats) is Caring: Public/Private Video in Wistia

Oct 12 2012

You can now share your Wistia stats with anyone! In fact, we completely redesigned the sharing workflow.


Here’s what’s new with sharing video in Wistia:

  • Share your video stats with anyone. Just tick the Stats permission when inviting new users to your projects and they'll be able to see stats for the videos in just that project.
  • What was three screens is now one single, easy dialog. We're really proud of how this turned it. It looks 1,000,000x better and it's much faster and easier to use too.
  • Anyone can be a project admin. There's a long boring reason why this wasn't possible before, but who cares about that? Now anyone can help administrate your projects.
  • Extend all permissions to anonymous viewers. This one's really cool. You can now let viewers of your unlocked projects use the SuperEmbed builder and see your stats!
  • Projects are unlocked by default for new accounts. You can adjust your account's default project privacy setting by going to your Account Dashboard and clicking Settings.

We always want our product to be as simple as possible to use. Some of you may know this already, but Wistia evolved from a private sharing tool into a tool that people expect to be public/shareable. Sometimes, it’s important to take a step back and reassess the easiest way to do things for everybody, meeting new users’ expectations of public, shareable video and retaining the power of secure, private video. 

Brendan (20 Posts)

Co-founder, CTO, friendly guy.


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  • Jace

    Ok it is really hard not to like you guys!!! Great Video.

  • http://www.facebook.com/grantgannon Grant Gannon

    You guys really do make some of the best B2B videos on the web. Kudos.

  • MagicTricks.com

    Funny! And informative! Thanks! (TMI that you are in your bathrobe, Brendan. LOL)

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Haha! That bathrobe was slowly coming undone throughout the shoot too. One more take and you might have seen a lot more. How’s that for TMI ;)

  • Northside Lexus

    OK…I absolutely love you guys and the new sharing/privacy single page is cool, BUT now where do I customize the text in the message that is included to the receiver?

  • Northside Lexus

    This is for the feature that was previously there to Share through email.

  • http://twitter.com/spencershaw spencer shaw

    Seriously awesome as usual. I wish other companies would follow your approach and move from bland to BOOM!!! thanks guys

  • http://www.mysmartblog.com Mikel Erdman

    Yeah. Really great use of the candle for lighting and impact. One of the most creative, well-scripted and fun videos I’ve seen in a long time. Cool use of the laptop screen to show the updates too. Great job on this one!

  • http://twitter.com/joshtheorange joshtheorange

    yaaayyyyyyyyyyy. yay.

  • loothi

    Love it! You lot are funny! Thumbs up for the sleeker sharing UI.

  • Ayo Akintilo

    Group hug!

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Wow, thank you Mikel!

  • Joe

    Great question, Northside! One of the ways we made the UI cleaner and more awesome was to hide the message text until you’ve entered the email of an invitee. Once you click on that input field, it grows (sleekly) and gives you more options, including “Add a personal message.”

  • Northside Lexus

    Sweet! Thanks so much!

  • Tony Ramirez

    Too good.

  • Tony Ramirez

    Also, I have a free account for now but haven’t uploaded any content yet (because I haven’t created). But I’m able to share stats with different permissions PER VIDEO on my account? Or is the permission for the entire Wistia account where all the videos live?

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Hey Tony! The permissions are per project. Projects are kind of like folders — they’re a place to store and organize your videos. So if you’d like to give different people different permissions per video, you’d want to separate the videos into their own projects. Hope that makes sense!

  • Lenny

    As usual, you guys do a great job sharing new features in a fun and creative way. Well played!

  • Dylan

    You guys are do damn cool, who else makes B2B this much fun? No-one.

    This is something our clients have been asking for more and more lately so you’ve read my mind, killer feature, thank you so much guys.

  • Edwin

    Hey Brendan, I know people say this a lot, but you guys are awesome, you are a great team, very creative, I love your work philosophy, you inspire, and you are a great actor. Anyway, I just wanted to say, you guys ROCK!

  • http://technovangelist.com technovangelist

    Love this new feature. Inability to share the stats with others was the reason I created that internal management app with stats at the last job….good to know I don’t have to think about that anymore.

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Hey Matt, glad to hear this will save you some time, and we’re psyched to finally have it in the product proper now! Also, welcome to Boston!

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Oops, almost forgot to add that I’m sure you noticed my left hand on the move in this video. At least I had the candle in my right hand to keep that one from wildly gesturing too!

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Wow, thank you Edwin! Not sure about the great actor part, but I’m working on it :)

  • Random Intern Girl

    Is there a way to only have a GROUP of people see it? So they don’t have to pick each individual person for permission?

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Why hello random intern girl. There is indeed. You can create groups in Wistia and just add the group to the project. It’s a pretty handy way to do role-based access! Here’s some more detailed info about how to make groups.
    http://wistia.com/doc/contacts#what_are_contact_groups

  • Adam

    You guys are freakin awesome!

  • http://robbiemitchell.com Robbie Mitchell

    Love the way I discovered this feature rollout: Wistia alert box, which launched a popover video, which has a post-roll message leading to this blog post. So smooth. Made a screencast and sent to our team.

  • http://brendanschwartz.com/ Brendan Schwartz

    Thanks Robbie! We’ve been dabbling with that alert bar in the app on a few of our launches. Glad to hear it was a good experience! We’re hoping to write a post about how we’ve been using it to roll out features and share some numbers.