Updates

10 Oct 2026 · 05:29

Sorry for the radio silence, we've been working hard behind the scenes and you'll start to see some of the hard work we've done coming through on the site. Videos should be loading faster with less buffering, especially in HD and 4k (please note, this still dependant on your connection, when you have a slower connection, we are about serving the best quality, not the fastest playback).

We also have some demo videos you can check out to see quality on the site, plus we've launched the new Pro plan!

We've also been working on the best way for you to sell your videos on the platform, which means some big changes coming soon.

Watch this space...

21 Sep 2026 · 21:43

After discussions with some new users, we've decided to create "Channels" - so the account you sign up with becomes your first channel, under the free account you can now create another channel, that would could become your 'business' channel for example. The Channels act independently of each other (user quotas etc. are shared). The Creator plan can create 3 more channels (4 in total).

For more information please visit the Help Centre article,

We have some other changes coming that we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.

Thanks for all the feedback, it's helping us shape a bright future for Long Play.

16 Sep 2026 · 10:03

Welcome

Thank you to all the new users who have joined Long Play in the last few days and uploaded some videos.

It’s helped us find some holes in the system that you can only find with real users and uploads.

We’re improving everyday and we plan to get as much right as we can. If you run into any issues on the site or something doesn’t feel right - please feel free to contact us via the support form (bottom of every page). We (humans) read and reply to all support tickets.

15 Sep 2026 · 00:37

Sign up issues - sorry to the new people who have had sign up issues in the past few days. Some of our security has blocked legitimate users from signing up. We have reviewed the security and believe we now have the balance right.

If you did try and sign up in the past few days and had issues, please try again. If you still have issues, please contact support.

Thanks for the support. We're still growing and finding our feet, so your feedback is helpful.

05 Sep 2026 · 02:45

Sorry for the lack of updates. I found a bug in the AV1 deployment and that sent me down a rabbit hole, that felt never ending, but we fixed the issues and we're more confident in serving the AV1 product to our customers now.

I also want to thank Jenny Priestley at TVB Europe, who wrote an article about the site, it's more for the geeks and techs out there, but it shows you the thought we put into the site, you can read the full article here.

A couple of questions I did get back after the article was published: people were shocked that one person built the entire platform and it's only supported by one person. I've built this entire site and platform in a way that it scales with growth, while we have limited customers our costs are under control, as we grow, everything grows with it. Long Play has a clear plan for the future. It's not set to a time limit (3 months, 6 months etc), it's set by users and videos. As we grow user base and videos hosted, our hosting services change and upgrade.

All you need to know is we're not going anywhere and we hope to be the next big site for hosting videos (both private and public). We have big plans and an even bigger roadmap.

12 Aug 2026 · 03:51

We've been working hard on AV1 and thought we had a workable solution, but encoding some of our longer form content has shown that AV1 has some issues we need to continue to work on. For now content will only be delivered in H264, but we are working to get AV1 happening ASAP. I can't give a timeframe as it's taken a lot more work and research than expected after we found the initial issues.

I promise once we get a workable solution, all previous content will be run through the AV1 encode process, which make take a little to work through the backlog, but we are committed to providing that service.

02 Aug 2026 · 09:45

With so much happening in the streaming space at the moment, we have decided to launch our new blog. This blog will help you understand how we see the streaming landscape, where we see things heading and how we can all adapt to change the face of the future. We don't have to live with so many ads and one or two companies telling us what to watch and how to think.

Please visit the blog today, you can also sign up for blog updates.

26 Jul 2026 · 05:49

With news of the Vimeo changes, we've added more features that might help Vimeo users move to Long Play. More information can be found here,

12 Jul 2026 · 07:09

Today we added an automatic captions creation feature, that you need to opt in to use for your video (we've also created an editor so you can edit all captions) Here's an introduction to the new system:

Long Play's automatic captions use Whisper, an open-source speech recognition model released by OpenAI - but the similarity to AI services like ChatGPT ends at the name. Whisper is a transcription tool: it listens to speech and converts it to text, the same job a professional stenographer does, just automated. It runs entirely on Long Play's own servers, your video never leaves our infrastructure, and nothing is sent to OpenAI or any third-party service.

It doesn't generate, invent, or rewrite anything - it produces a faithful transcript of what was actually said. Unlike large language models or generative AI, Whisper has no knowledge of context beyond the audio it's given, produces no creative output, and cannot be used to train further AI models. The result lands in your caption editor as a draft for you to review before it's ever shown to a viewer.

For more information: Auto-generated captions.

06 Jul 2026 · 08:15

Today we rolled out a new feature for Creators (or above - in the future), it's called Quality Optimization that can opt into on upload or after the fact. This gives you the chance to get the best encoded video, that is high quality, but also smaller size, so it loads faster for your audience.

For more information about Quality Optimization, check out the Help Centre article here.