Release 8.60 28/09/2026

We’re pleased to release the 8.60 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.

Lumos by Blue Billywig

Let there be light (and metadata)! Meet Lumos, our new AI-powered metadata generation agent. Lumos makes your workflow shine by effortlessly generating suggestions for titles, descriptions, tags, and Moments. Best of all? It’s fully EU AI Act compliant, with robust data privacy controls built right in. Check out Lumos in the Modules section, or read all about it in our latest blog post.

  • Ad reports now include VAST service views.
  • Before requesting specific Modules we now show you the relevant terms and data-processing agreement to accept.
  • Clips without a thumbnail now show a proper empty state.
  • The Ad services dashboard now better matches the styling of the Analytics dashboard.
  • Multiple minor tweaks to the player skin.
  • Fixed an issue where the advertisement overlay could stay on screen after a preroll ended, showing a black screen in fullscreen while audio continued playing.
  • Fixed an issue where the main video briefly started playing before the preroll.
  • Fixed an issue where advertisements longer than two minutes were cut off.
  • Fixed an issue where playback did not continue when the ad cache server was unreachable.
  • Fixed two player crashes that could take down the surrounding page or the skin overlay.
  • Fixed an issue where videos in a channel played at half width when the thumbnail had a different aspect ratio.
  • Fixed an issue where Shorts used the regular player skin instead of the Shorts skin.
  • Fixed an issue where a preloaded advertisement replayed on every short.
  • Fixed an issue where newly published subtitles were missing from the HLS and DASH streams.
  • Fixed an issue where channel statistics did not load when returning to the page, and where the wrong channel was highlighted in the filter.
  • Fixed an issue where preview players showed no video for certain assets.
  • Fixed an issue where a newly chosen default thumbnail reverted after saving.
  • Fixed an issue where generating a clip from a playlist failed.
  • Fixed an issue where searching media clips and media profiles through our API could return an error.
  • Fixed an issue where custom fields and playout information were missing from part of the view statistics, and where views from the iOS SDK could be attributed to the wrong publication.
  • Fixed several issues in the interactive video editor: related to aspect ratio’s, hover on widgets and minor tweaks.

SDK

  • Fixed an issue where the skip button never appeared on skippable ad breaks in ad-scheduling (VMAP) playouts on iOS, and where it always showed in English instead of the player language.
  • Fixed an issue on Android where an unknown video duration was reported as a large negative number.