After we launched the Overlay Player, we received a lot of positive reactions and welcomed a lot of new users. Today we are introducing a couple of updates that greatly enhance the experience of the Overlay Player.

For everyone

• Overlay load times
  Overlays are now optimized to load 10x faster than before. Well, that’s pretty much all there is to say.

• Full-screen overlays
  The full-screen option in the Overlay Player now scales the overlays. We are still tweaking the scaling, but we are very pleased with the first results and wanted you to be able to enjoy it.

• Video quality enhancement
  The quality of your existing videos will be enhanced by a new technique we applied to the Overlay Player that smooths the rough edges. New videos will benefit from higher bitrates and better compression.

For Business Accounts

• Overlay Opacity
  Tweak the opacity of your overlays as you like. The default value is 90% but we leave it up to you to decide what value suits your specific case.

• Target
  Choose the target of your overlay link, the default value is a new (blank) window but you can choose to use the existing window instead. That way you can let your viewers click-through for a smoother experience.

• Pause on click optional
  When a viewer clicks on an overlay the video pauses on default. In some cases you might want to let the video continue to play after a viewer clicks, so we made that an option.

We hope you enjoy the updates and will keep you posted on any new developments!