JW Player incident

Freewheel ad serving issue

Major Resolved View vendor source →

JW Player experienced a major incident on May 28, 2025 affecting Video Players, lasting 7d 23h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 28, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 05, 2025, 01:06 PM UTC
Duration
7d 23h
Detected by Pingoru
May 28, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC

Affected components

Video Players

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 28, 2025, 01:49 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue with serving Freewheel ads on the latest cloud-hosted player version.

  2. investigating May 28, 2025, 03:18 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue with serving Freewheel ads on the latest cloud-hosted player version. If this affects you, as a temporary workaround, please use the “Previous” release via the Player page.

  3. monitoring Jun 03, 2025, 11:49 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Jun 05, 2025, 01:06 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.