Updates
September 29, 2024
Curate 4.3
Say hello to Curations
As promised Curative AI is now coachable! My curations will allow your visitors to enjoy a whole new level of personalization. The new Personalize tab will allow Marketers to prompt Curative AI in natural language. to enhance every aspect of the Feed experience starting with recommendation. 1. Our first Curation is Persona: Persona allows Marketers to teach Curative AI their unique customer personas and define everything from the source of the traffic, context of the campaign they came from, what they would be looking for, and the kind of conversion they would need to convert on.
Fixed
Increase the speed of Dynamic Bars; Fixed an issue where more than one Feed on a page caused prevented playback
September 15, 2024
Curate 4.2
AI-powered content metadata
Launched an AI-driven content pipeline dedicated to generating metadata [Titles, Description, Tags, etc], enhancing the ability to categorize, search and manage content efficiently.
Added
New partner management features
Fixed
Feed preview [content carousel] recommendation fix where in certain instances tagged videos were not getting filtered.
September 8, 2024
Curate 4.1
Advanced SEO
Implemented changes that allow each individual content to have its own unique URL slug, optimizing search engine indexing and enhancing user access to specific content.
Added
Additional control over Page Previews to only enabled URLs with a fall back to new tabs
Fixed
Fixed content transition animation, and CORS-related issues.
September 1, 2024
Curate 4.0
Introducing Curative AI
We’re excited to introduce Curative AI, our custom AI engine built from the ground up to deliver enterprise-specific content curation and intelligence.
Advanced Content Personalization:
Curative AI adapts to your organization’s goals, offering tailored recommendations that prioritize what drives enterprise value over conventional models.
Coachable in Natural Language:
Easily adjust Curative AI’s behavior with simple natural language commands, allowing businesses to fine-tune its performance, Marketers to share new insights or behaviors with ease. Curative AI will be capable of delivering microlearning by delivering focused Q/A, polls or prompting users directly on the Feed.
Analytics & Reporting:
Offer Marketers the most granular and personalized real-time insights and reporting
Improved
Improved the Partner APIs, allowing partners to leverage enhanced functionalities for better video management and integration.
Fixed
Bug fixes in collector to enable quick processing of clickstream data for Curative AI.
August 25, 2024
Curate 3.7
Selective Page Previews and Feed SEO
Introduced selective enablement of Page Previews, giving Marketers control over when to open a new tab. Unauthorized Page Previews now also fallback as a new tab.
Optimized Feed Preview [content carousel] for search engines, improving visibility and engagement for users interacting with carousel features on hosted websites.
Added
Implemented additional clickstream events to gather more detailed user interaction data
Fixed
Fixed feed play/pause, CTA redirect issues, and error handling.
August 18, 2024
Curate 3.6
Curate Validate: Your Integration Assistant
Launched Curate Validate on the chrome extension store. It powerful Integration Assistant helps users check and validate their Feed integrations, ensuring that all connections and functionalities are set up to operate smoothly, free of errors and aligned with best practices
Added
Free scroll mode for Curate Feed Carousels, allowing users to navigate through content more fluidly.
Improved
Enhanced partner APIs to allow seamless switching between child marketers.
Fixed
Addressed multiplte Feed edge cases where performance deterioration were observed under varying network conditition like VPN's
August 11, 2024
Curate 3.5
A new CTA: Dynamic Bars
We’re excited to unveil Dynamic Bars, a larger, more prominent call-to-action format designed to boost conversions. This dynamic feature allows you to customize various elements to align with your brand:
Color Customization:
Choose from a gradient palette to make your CTA stand out. Font Flexibility: Change the font color to enhance visibility and appeal.
Custom Icons:
Upload your own icon for a personalized touch. Animation Options: Add animations to draw attention and engage viewers.
Improved
Made improvements to the Switch Marketer feature, further optimizing its functionality and ease of use for Agencies
Fixed
Fixed recommendation issues and condition fixes.
August 4, 2024
Curate 3.4
MP4, Conversions, and Agency API.
Curate Feed now supports m3u8 incompatible browsers with added fallback to MP4 content.
Added
Agency API, enabling Agencies to easily switch between different marketers
Fixed
Resolved Page Preview event listener issues.
July 28, 2024
Curate 3.3
Transform Your Conversions with Page Previews
New CTA View (Popup on Video Released): Launched a new Call to Action (CTA) view that appears as a popup during video playback. This feature enables marketers to prompt viewers more effectively, increasing engagement and conversion opportunities.
New Pinot-Based Analytics Dashboard: Introduced a new analytics dashboard powered by Pinot, enabling super quick analytics load times. This improvement enhances the user experience by allowing for faster access to critical data without delays.
Added
All new analytics dashboard - with 60% faster load times
Fixed
Minor fixes to content delivery and Curate App UI
July 14, 2024
Curate 3.2
Instant content switching
Improved video player transitions to facilitate smoother video switching. This enhancement contributes to a more seamless viewing experience by reducing lag, reducing white noise and improving overall playback quality.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where thumbnails obstructed content
June 30, 2024
Curate 3.1
Realtime analytics
Revamped analytics dashboard that now provides real-time data on video performance metrics. This enhancement allows Marketers to view all metrics in real-time.
Fixed
Fixed bugs in data visualization and metric updates.
June 16, 2024
Curate 3.0
Graph-based Feeds
Recommendation algorithm upgraded to graph-based recommendations, allowing for ultra low latency, greater frequency and superior relevance in realtime.
Added
Introduced support for older browsers by providing a fallback mechanism that defaults to MP4 format if m3u8 is not supported. This ensures that users on outdated or unsupported browsers can still enjoy seamless video playback.
Fixed
Resolved algorithm biases and improved content suggestions, fixed a bug that slowed recommendations
June 2, 2024
Curate 2.2
Unmuted Autoplay
Feeds can play content umuted on first view, enhancing engagement through immediate audio playback
May 19, 2024
Curate 2.1
Feeds are Speed
Feeds now have sub 100ms content load times. Launched a feature allowing users to create customizable video playlists. This addition enhances content organization and enables users to curate their viewing experiences more effectively.
Added
Mechanism that loads videos to load in under 100ms, Now pin content to Feed previews (carousel)
Fixed
Addressed crashes in the player when users attempted to consume extensive content lists
May 5, 2024
Curate 2.0.2
Recommendations on the new Feed
Introduced a feature that provides personalized content recommendations using server-side events (SSE), enabling real-time video recommendations using SSR
Fixed
Fixed recommendation result inconsistencies and filtering bugs.
April 21, 2024
Curate 2.0.1
Deeplinking and Event handling in SSR
Deployed deeplinking within server-side rendered content, allowing users to share specific content links directly.
Added
Implemented server-side events to track user interactions (clickstream) effectively.
Improved
Video scroll, video delivery and content speed optimizations
Fixed
Resolved issues with content sorting and filtering in Curate App.
April 7, 2024
Curate 2.0
Server side feeds
Introducing the server-side rendered (SSR) Feed, a massive leap in streaming allowing for faster load times, CMS agnosticity, superior performance, responsiveness and SEO compatibility. This release also culminates months of effort into a new framework built ground up that will enable newer breeds of customer experiences.
Added
A suite of new analytics tools designed to provide deeper insights into viewer engagement metrics.
Fixed
Fixed discrepancies in engagement metrics calculations.
March 24, 2024
Curate 1.8.6
New player controls
Added video player controls within Curate Feed, providing users with more intuitive and responsive control options. These enhancements were aimed at improving content navigation and interaction experience.
Fixed
Addressed bugs related to player responsiveness and control visibility in JS Curate Feed
March 10, 2024
Curate 1.8.5
New streaming capabilities
Introduced new streaming capabilities that enhance the platform's ability to deliver content in real time. This feature is particularly beneficial for live events and on-demand streaming, improving the overall user experience.
Added
Provided updated recommendations for m3u8 content negotiation on iOS devices,
Improved
video delivery and playback across different network conditions.
Fixed
Fixed streaming delays and buffering problems.
February 25, 2024
Curate 1.8.4
Social sharing and Partner APIs
Added new social sharing capabilities that allow users to easily share content across various platforms. This feature encourages content virality and enhances user engagement by allowing Creates to reach wider audiences.
Added
Launched new APIs and headless integration of Curate App - enabling agencies to manage content distribution and collaborations more effectively. New metrics inside the share analytics.
Fixed
Resolved bugs with deeplinking and social sharing
February 11, 2024
Curate 1.8.3
Multilingual Content Support
Introduced support for multi-language content, enabling uploads and categorization in various languages. Implemented as an extension of Tag categories, now users can filter and discover content based on language preferences - enhancing accessibility for a global audience
January 28, 2024
Curate 1.8.2
Personalized content recommendations
Launched a advanced content recommendations personalized to user behavior and preferences. This update utilizes advanced algorithms to tailor content suggestions, aiming to enhance user engagement and retention on the platform.
Improved
Recommendation frequency and speed
Fixed
Resolved bugs affecting content suggestions.
January 14, 2024
Curate 1.8.1
Content uploads, simplified
Enhanced the video uploading interface to make it more intuitive and user-friendly. These improvements aim to reduce the learning curve for new users and streamline the process for experienced users, ensuring efficient video uploads.
Fixed
Fixed upload errors and file format compatibility issues.
December 31, 2023
Curate 1.8
New Curate App design. Curate App V2
Launched a redesigned Curate App that improves usability and enhances the user experience. This new design focuses on providing marketers with easier access to tools and features, facilitating more effective content management.
Added
Added new CTA update, where you can define redefine Redirect CTA and have different urls for each video - enabling product page clicks with just one CTA type and different redirect page management.
Fixed
Addressed minor bugs in the video updating interface.
December 17, 2023
Curate 1.7.3
Additional content formats.
Expanded the platform's capabilities by adding support for various new video formats, enhancing the flexibility for content Creates to upload and distribute their media. MP4, AVI, MPEG, MOV
Release Details
Resolved playback errors for new video formats.
December 3, 2023
Curate 1.7.2
Advanced content analytics
Released a new set of advanced analytics tools designed to provide deeper insights into content performance. These tools allow Creates and marketers to track key performance indicators (KPIs), such as viewer retention rates, engagement metrics, and conversion tracking, enabling data-driven decisions to enhance content strategy.
Improved
Data Querying on the data platform to make queries even faster
Fixed
Fixed issues in the analytics dashboard and data reporting.
November 19, 2023
Curate 1.7.1
New user engagement metrics
Launched new metrics to track user engagement more effectively, providing insights into how users interact with content across the platform. These metrics aim to help marketers refine their strategies and improve content delivery.
Fixed
Resolved bugs in metric calculations and user data.
November 5, 2023
Curate 1.7
Enhanced visitor tracking
Introduced improved tracking mechanisms for video analytics, enabling deeper insights into viewer engagement, drop-off rates, interaction patterns and enhanced real-time content recommendations
Improved
Clickstream collector, enabling quicker collection and preprocessing the data
Fixed
Fixed inconsistencies in page view and engagement metrics in analytics
October 22, 2023
Curate 1.6.2
Improved content moderation.
Launched an updated content moderation workflow that features an enhanced user interface. This update aims to streamline the moderation process, making it more intuitive for moderators to review and manage video content.
Improved
UI on Curate app to better handle content previews
Fixed
Addressed errors in content filtering and approval
Fixed pagination issues within Asset pages
October 8, 2023
Curate 1.6.1
Dynamic content negotiation
Implemented a dynamic content negotiation feature designed to optimize video playback speeds. This enhancement adjusts video quality in real-time based on the user's bandwidth and device capabilities, providing a smoother viewing experience.
Improved
Optimized resource utilization across Curate
Fixed
Bug fixes to enhance system performance.
September 24, 2023
Curate 1.6
Content recommendation
Realtime algorithm for recommending content to users, utilizing to analyze user behavior and preferences to deliver more relevant content
Improved
Clickstream data preprocessing for quicker recommendations
Fixed
Fixed issues in data processing.
September 10, 2023
Curate 1.5.4
Tag your content and categorize tags
Introduced a new tagging system for video content, allowing Creators on Create and Marketers on Curate to categorize and label their videos for internal management. Enables organization, discoverability via search and playlist customization needed to syndicate content to different Feeds in your account.
Improved
Improved clickstream collection on iOS 17 with the new os APIs, Improved the lead form UI within Feeds
Fixed
Resolved issues with video playback and buffering on iOS 17.
August 27, 2023
Curate 1.5.3
Third-party integration support
Added third-party services for Curate, enabling Marketers to connect tools and platforms like google analytics to the Feed, and lead management systems to the App.
Fixed
Addressed issues related to the compatibility of the Feed with third-party websites.
August 13, 2023
Curate 1.5.2
System Notifications
Enhanced the notification system to deliver real-time alerts on errors and updates on Curate App
Fixed
Fixed notification delivery bugs.
July 30, 2023
Curate 1.5.1
Enhanced security for Feed and App
Launched advanced security measures on the App, including data encryption to protect user accounts and sensitive information.
Released Feed licensing features to manage and track usage, video views allocated, enabling secure and authorized deployments
Fixed
Resolved various issues related to login authentication, session timeouts, and account management.
July 16, 2023
Curate 1.5
User management
Released significant enhancements to the user management system, including more advanced role-based access control (RBAC) features. This update allowed for better customization of user permissions and the ability to manage large teams more efficiently within the platform.
Release Details
Fixed various UI bugs that affected the layout and design consistency on different devices.
July 2, 2023
Curate 1.4.1
Enhanced Analytics
Introduced a comprehensive analytics dashboard designed to provide marketers with a holistic view of their video/view metrics. The dashboard includes visual data representations, such as graphs and charts, to help users easily interpret trends and performance indicators. Additional functionality includes - Export functionality, and more granular insights into user engagement metrics,
Improved
Reduced analytics loading times by preprocessing specific metrics
Fixed
Addressed issues affecting the accuracy of data and . These improvements enhanced the user experience by providing faster access to key insights and more reliable data.
June 18, 2023
Curate 1.4
All new analytics
This release focused on expanding the reporting capabilities within the Curate platform. The new features include a new reporting platform with basic dashboards and metrics view functionality.
Added
Improved the accuracy and speed of the analytics tools
Fixed
Fixed minor issues in the data retrieval process that were causing inconsistencies in report generation
Jun 4, 2023
Curate 1.3.1
Content chunking and speed
Upgraded video streaming technology by implementing content chunking and utilizing advanced m3u8 playlist recommendations. This change significantly improved video loading times and minimized buffering, providing a smoother streaming experience for end-users.
Improved
Optimizing server response times, reducing latency in video playback, Improved performance under high user loads.
Fixed
Minor fixes improving system stability
May 28, 2023
Curate 1.3
All you can Convert
Introduced a new capability that allows Marketers to have multiple call to actions within their accounts. They can now choose specific CTAs to be displayed for each piece of content, tailoring their calls to action based on the content and its target audience.
Added
Video delivery for low network bandwidth networks
Improved
Enhanced media preprocessing
May 21, 2023
Curate 1.2
Curate, for Agencies
Introducing Parent/Child relationships in the Curate app, enabling agencies to add/manage their clients on the app.
Added
Introduced shimmer for video loads
Improved
Optimized the video loading process
May 14, 2023
Create 0.5
It's here, Blinklink Create.
Create App allows content creators to create a profile and offer enterprises using Blinklink Curate, their earned media
Improved
Create App allows content creators to create a profile and offer enterprises using Blinklink Curate, their earned media
Fixed
Continued fixes in Blinklink Curate video, media services, and moderation
May 7, 2023
Curate 1.1
Improved content workflow.
Improved content workflow. Request revisions on content uploads
Fixed
Resolved issues in Blinklink media, moderation, and video commerce services
April 30, 2023
Curate 1.0
Say Hello to Blinklink Curate
The Curate Feed [integrated as a Web SDK] offers the fastest enterprise grade short-form video platform. The Curate App now delivers intuitive navigation, streamlined content management, and easier content upload workflows.
