Hello Viddlers! We’re happy to finally announce the release of version 2.46 of the Viddler platform. We released this update on April 1st, no joke intended, and have made a few small updates since then to stabilize the release.
This release one of our more complex releases in recent months. Where version 2.45 included 42 “tickets” 2.46 included 112! We’re constantly working very hard to keep the number of tickets in each release at a manageable level – but the main feature of this release is the cause for such a large amount of work.

Unicode Support. Every part of Viddler’s platform is now fully unicode compatible. This means that our player, web site, API, all now support international characters. So to those of you that require that support welcome!

Age gate. Some material is not meant for all audiences. Some is even governed by law to be shown only to those of a certain age. We’ve worked with our partners and business clients to create an age gate, or a simple splash screen that appears before the video to ask the viewer their age, so that they can better serve their audiences. Viddler partner Destructoid (destructoid) is using it here, as an example. (If you are logged into Viddler and have set your birthday you may not see the Age gate). Also: For a general overview of the feature you can watch Rob Sandie’s quick Age gate overview.
Billing updates for Business clients. We’re constantly updating our business offerings, services, support features, and now we’ve just made a big update to our billing processes. Billing is now being done in an automated fashion with the option to pay via Credit Card automatically every month. We expect to continue to update these processes in the next few releases.
API security and original file access updates. Our API is being updated with every release of the Viddler platform. Several business clients have asked for their accounts to be completely hidden from Viddler.com for various reasons. To that end we’ve added more security to the API to keep their data secure and private. We’ve also added original file access to the API responses for those that need it. For more information on the Viddler API see the Viddler Developers Web site.
Speaking of the API, you can now generate your own API key! No need to request an API key from the Viddler staff anymore (something we had a lot of trouble keeping up with the requests for). Now, just log into your account, go to your settings page, and generate an API key! It is now even easier to become a developer on top of Viddler’s platform.
With over 112 tickets in this release we also managed to fit in a number of bug fixes, more efficient processes (like reducing the amount of memory that our player uses), and have taken another step into fighting the spam messages we’ve all seen on Viddler. We’re actively working on version 2.47 already and we hope you enjoy some of these new changes!