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ONLINE VIDEO ROUND UP: Teads, SpotX Make Moves, Brazilian VOD Surges – Portada

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A summary of the most exciting recent news in online video and ad tech in the US, US-Hispanic and Latin American markets. If you’re trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.

US-US/HISPANIC MARKET

A new study by GfK’s The Home Technology Monitor™ found that 16% of the viewing population have multiple SVOD (subscription video-on-demand) services in their homes, up from 10% three years ago. « Self-bundling” viewers – those who pay for combinations of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and other subscription streaming services – are more likely to have kids under 18 in their homes (50%, versus an average of 41% among all weekly viewers of any type).

Video inventory management platform SpotX and video discovery and distribution platform Vemba have partnered on a product suite that manages the syndication and monetization of premium video content. The solution provides an end-to-end product for content producers and publishers that syndicate video content, from asset and distribution management to monetization via direct and indirect channels.

Get ready for the 2017 Online Video Marketing Guide to be published on October 25, 2016 with the latest stats/projections and intelligence on the Ad-Driven Online Video market (OTT) throughout the Americas. To align your brand with this important annual reference and thought leadership report, please contact Portada’s Sales and Marketing Director Kelley Eberhardt at kelley@portada-online.com.

hispanicizeGael García Bernal will anchor a line-up of cultural thought leaders, celebs and influencers from the industries of marketing, social media, entertainment and journalism that that will speak at Hispanicize L.A. on Oct. 12. Presented in partnership with Sensis and ThinkNow Research, the full day event will take place at The Well, 1006 S. Olive St. in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

YouTube has announced a new platform for making video ads on the site called YouTube director. People can create the ads on the YouTube Director for Business app or the YouTube Director service on the site. People can take advantage of free help from a GoogleAdWords expert.

Alphabet Inc. ‘s Google has acquired digital marketing startup FameBit, whose platform connects brands with content creators on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, helping them work together for product placement and promotion.

Conviva, which conducts OTT experience management for media companies, announced that digital sports content and media company Perform Group is using Conviva’s technology to provide global video intelligence for new live sports streaming service DAZN, which uses Conviva Insights to provide the in-depth metrics and analytics it needs to control its video delivery for a high quality of experience.

LATAM MARKET

Teads, the inventor of outstream video and the number 1 video advertising marketplace in the world, today announced the launch of its Programmatic Outstream Video Accreditation Program roadshow in Latin America. The recently-launched programmatic accreditation program trains media buyers with the latest knowledge and training in programmatic outstream video advertising. The accreditation program will now expand into four open interactive workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Miami.

predicta-squarelogo-1461587596453Brazilian company and part of e.Bricks‘s portfolio Predicta has announced that it is purchasing Melt DSP to create programmatic and digital solutions hub Predicta Melt. On top of a DSP, the company will offer ad servers, rich media, web intelligence, DMP, website optimisation, ad exchanges, and adsense.

According to new data from VideoViewers, in Brazil, 40% of the time spent watching videos is done in the internet, 42% of the population (85 million people) has the habit of watching videos on the internet, and 82 million people do so in YouTube. Pay TV, on the other hand, was measured to have an audience equal to 37% of the local population. The average time spent watching videos has risen from 30 hours a week to 39.2 hours week in the past two years.

Brazil’s VOD market is expected to reach US$352.m, according to the Motion Picture Association Latin America (MPA-AL), making it the eighth-largest VOD market in the world, and the largest in Latin America, followed by Mexico and Argentina.


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ProSiebenSat.1 Invests in Online Video Service, Ups Growth Forecast

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 has made a minority investment in the global online video service Pluto TV, and has raised its revenue growth targets, expecting that more than half of its revenues will come from outside of the traditional TV ad sector by 2018.

ProSiebenSat.1 did not disclose the size of the Pluto TV investment, saying only that it is in the “high single-digit-range” for about 14 percent of the platform. The deal makes the European media giant the largest strategic partner in the service. Scripps Networks has also invested in the latest round of Pluto TV financing, joining existing stakeholders US Venture Partners and Sky Ventures.

The ad-supported service operates more than 100 linear live channels, with partnerships in place with providers such as Bloomberg Television, Reuters, CBS, Paramount and Time Inc. Pluto TV has more than 5 million active users per month. Under the terms of the deal, Pluto TV will absorb ProSiebenSat.1’s own video streaming service Quazer, which delivers more than 60 special-interest channels in Germany. As part of the new partnership, Quazer’s managing directors, Olivier Jollet and Sören Ziems, will join the management team of Pluto TV.

Christof Wahl, executive board member for digital entertainment at ProSiebenSat.1, said, “The investment in Pluto TV represents a further logical step in our company’s digital entertainment strategy. The market for this kind of advertising-financed video streaming already amounts to €4 billion in the U.S. alone. We would like to help actively shape this dynamically growing mass market on an international scale and participate in this growth.”

Wahl continued, “With Quazer, we have demonstrated that we are capable of building a product and bringing it to market within just six months, a fact that attracted a great deal of interest on the part of this successful young American company. By working together, we will reach a global audience and will be able to offer advertising customers additional marketing opportunities.”

Tom Ryan, CEO of Pluto TV, said, “We’ve always had the ambition of being the global OTT destination for free television. This partnership is a giant leap toward realizing that goal. Combining both media power and digital expertise, ProSiebenSat.1 is the ideal partner to accelerate our entrance into German-speaking markets. Additionally, the talented Berlin-based Quazer team will strengthen Pluto TV, speeding the pace of both product innovation and international expansion.”

ProSiebenSat.1 also today revised its 2018 revenue target by €300 million ($331 million) to €4.5 billion ($5 billion), reflecting increased contributions from acquisitions. By 2018 the company expects that more than 50 percent of its revenues will come from outside of the traditional TV ad business. It estimates digital revenues of more than €1.7 billion ($1.9 billion) by 2018.

Thomas Ebeling, CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, said, “We have a strong basis for further growth and a clear strategy. We are consistently pushing the intelligent combination of our high-reach TV stations with the digital offerings. Our new investments are developing very well, therefore we are once again raising our growth targets for 2018. Our customers—viewers, users and advertising customers—are clearly the focus of everything we do. We offer them first-class entertainment and strong e-commerce services on all our platforms. With online transactions and internet-based TV use, we will acquire data which will benefit both target groups. For our advertising customers, we are developing innovative 360-degree concepts that are tailored even more precisely to their consumers. Thus, advertising will be even more relevant for viewers and users alike. ProSiebenSat.1 is the first media group to consistently implement the combination of TV, content, e-commerce, digital entertainment and production.”

Chrome 54 for Linux, Mac, Windows Brings HTML5 YouTube Video Embeds and More

The team behind Chrome browser announced on Wednesday that the desktop version of Chrome 54 has moved to a stable channel and will be rolling out to Windows, Mac, and Linux in the days or weeks. The browser can be updated via the About section in the browser itself, or the new version can be downloaded from Chrome’s website.

Chrome 54 brings along bug and security fixes apart from performance improvements, but notably also changes the way browser handles the YouTube embeds on a webpage page. Instead of using the Flash Player, Chrome 54 uses HTML5 embed style for YouTube videos. Google confirmed in August that Chrome browser will start blocking Flash and switch to HTML5 as default from September.

With Chrome 54, the browser will support custom elements with V1 spec to allow developers to provide better communication with their custom tabs. Further, BroadcastChannel API has been added to the browser to allow messages to several different tabs or windows linked through single source.

Chrome 54 on Android will allow users to download webpages, pictures, music, and videos for offline viewing when users do not have proper Internet access. Further, new tabs in Chrome 54 will provide users with suggestions for articles when the update rolls out. The articles will be suggested on the basis of your reading habits learned by the browser. The update for Android is expected to roll out soon. The rollout for Chrome OS is also expected to follow shortly.

École religieuse : nouveau recours collectif pour viol – Droit

École religieuse : nouveau recours collectif pour viol L’ancien élève a déposé sa demande en recours collectif vendredi dernier et réclame plus d’un million de dollars au Collège Mont-Sacré-Cœur et aux Frères du Sacré-Cœur pour de présumées agressions, apprend-t-on dans le JDM.

L’homme de 56 ans aurait vécu l’enfer dès l’âge de 13 ans selon son avocat, Me Robert Kugler. « Encore aujourd’hui, il est dans un état difficile. Il n’a pas parlé de ça pendant des années. C’était un lourd secret à porter », a indiqué le juriste.

Selon le cabinet d’avocats Kugler Kandestin, qui a déjà piloté trois recours collectifs contre des congrégations religieuses, il y aurait d’autres victimes. La firme a notamment cité le cas des Pères rédemptoristes. « Ça a commencé avec une victime et il y en avait 110 à la fin», dit Me Kugler.

Donald Trump accusé d’attouchements et d’agressions physiques

Les dernières semaines de campagne du candidat républicain tournent au cauchemar. Plusieurs femmes ont accusé mercredi Donald Trump de harcèlement et d’attouchements sexuels, un nouveau coup dur pour le milliardaire en difficulté dans la course à la Maison Blanche, malgré le démenti formel de sa campagne.

Donald Trump a-t-il un problème avec le sexe ?

Depuis plusieurs semaines les nuages s’accumulent pour la candidature du milliardaire qui perd du terrain face à sa rivale Hillary Clinton.

La campagne présidentielle avait déjà pris un nouveau tournant avec la publication vendredi d’une vidéo de 2005 dans laquelle Donald Trump se vante d’un comportement relevant du harcèlement sexuel avec des mots d’une grande vulgarité.

« Quand t’es une star, elles te laissent faire. Tu peux tout faire. Les choper par la chatte », s’était-il vanté, alors que les micros étaient ouverts.

Le candidat s’est ensuite excusé d’avoir tenu ces propos, affirmant qu’il « s’agissait de discussions de vestiaires » et qu’il ne s’était jamais comporté de la sorte.

« Il était comme une pieuvre »

Mais ces dénégations ont poussé Jessica Leeds et Rachel Crooks à confier au « New York Times » leurs témoignages sur des attouchements sexuels dont elles n’avaient jamais fait part publiquement auparavant.

La première reproche à Donald Trump de l’avoir « pelotée » alors qu’elle était assise à côté de lui dans un avion il y a plus de trois décennies, et la seconde affirme que Donald Trump l’a embrassée contre son gré en 2005 lorsqu’elle travaillait comme réceptionniste dans la tour Trump Tower appartenant au magnat de l’immobilier.

« Il était comme une pieuvre […] ses mains étaient partout », affirme Jessica Leeds, aujourd’hui âgée de 74 ans, et dont les proches ont aussi été questionnés par le quotidien new-yorkais.

Elle explique avoir ensuite changé de siège dans l’avion et choisi de ne rien dire jusqu’au débat présidentiel de dimanche où les propos de Donald Trump se dédouanant de tout comportement agressif envers des femmes, l’ont révulsée.

Rachel Crooks avait elle 22 ans le jour de l’agression qu’elle reproche à Donald Trump lors d’une rencontre survenue à la sortie d’un ascenseur. Après avoir simplement fait connaissance et échangé une poignée de main, « il m’a embrassé directement sur la bouche », a-t-elle affirmé. « J’étais complètement bouleversée qu’il me pense insignifiante au point de pouvoir faire ça », se souvient-elle.

De nombreux témoignages

« Cet article tout entier est de la fiction, et le fait que le ‘New York Times ‘lance ces accusations complètement fausses […] à propos de la personnalité de Donald Trump sur un tel sujet est dangereux », a rapidement réagi dans un communiqué un responsable de la campagne Trump, Jason Miller.

Le fait que ces témoignages « ne soient rendus publics que des décennies plus tard dans le dernier mois de la campagne présidentielle devrait être suffisant » à les décrédibiliser, explique encore le porte-parole du candidat.

Outre le témoignage des deux femmes, le « New York Times » évoque également le cas de Temple Taggart, une ancienne miss Utah qui avait déjà livré un témoignage affirmant que Donald Trump l’avait embrassée de force à plusieurs reprises.

Deux autres médias, le Palm Beach Post en Floride et une chaîne du réseau NBC dans la région de Seattle ont rapporté les propos de femmes accusant le candidat. Il s’agit de Mindy McGillivray qui affirme avoir subi des attouchements dans la propriété de Donald Trump à Mar-a-Lago il y a 13 ans et de Cassandra Searles, une ancienne miss Washington expliquant avoir aussi été pelotée par le candidat républicain. La campagne de Trump estime que le témoignage de Mme McGillivray manque « d’intérêt ou de véracité » et n’a pas commenté celui de Cassandra Searles.

Donald Trump dément

Le milliardaire lui-même avait été interrogé par le « New York Times » mardi soir dans une interview téléphonique dont le journal a rapporté des extraits.

« Rien de tout cela ne s’est jamais produit », a affirmé Donald Trump, en menaçant de poursuivre le journal en justice si les témoignages de Jessica Leeds et Rachel Crooks étaient publiés.

« Cet article troublant confirme hélas tout ce que nous savons sur la façon dont Donald Trump a traité les femmes », a réagi la porte-parole d’Hillary Clinton Jennifer Palmieri dans un communiqué.

« Ces informations suggèrent […] que le comportement répugnant dont il s’est vanté dans la vidéo représente plus que des paroles », a-t-elle poursuivi.

« Il force sa langue dans ma bouche »

De son côté, la journaliste du magazine « People » Natasha Stoynoff publie un récit détaillé dans lequel elle raconte avoir été agressée physiquement par Donald Trump en 2005.

La chroniqueuse était dans la maison de Mar-a-Lago de Melania et Donald Trump pour interviewer le couple à l’occasion de leur anniversaire de mariage. Le milliardaire lui fait le tour du propriétaire et veut lui montrer une chambre « extraordinaire » en particulier. Là, Trump ferme la porte derrière eux. 

« Je me suis retournée, et en quelques secondes, il me pousse contre le mur et force sa langue dans ma gorge », raconte-t-elle. « J’étais stupéfaite. Et j’étais reconnaissante lorsque le majordome de longue date de Trump a fait irruption dans la chambre, alors que je tentais me dégager. » 

« […] J’étais encore sous le choc et restais silencieuse alors que nous le suivîmes tous les deux dans un patio extérieur […]. Durant ces quelques minutes seule avec Trump, mon estime de moi-même s’était écrasée au niveau zéro. Comment les agissements d’un seul homme pouvaient-ils me faire me sentir si complètement violée ? […] J’ai essayé d’agir normalement. Trump sourit et se pencha en avant : ‘Vous savez que nous allons avoir une affaire, n’est-ce pas ?’ déclara-t-il.

« […] Comme beaucoup de femmes, j’avais honte et me blâmais pour sa transgression. Je minimisais (« Ça n’est pas comme s’il m’avait violée… »); Je doutais de mes souvenirs et de ma réaction. Je craignais qu’un homme célèbre, puissant, et riche puissent me discréditer et me détruire […]. Juste pour info, M. Trump, je n’ai pas consenti. »

Commentaire sordide

Et le pire est peut-être encore à venir. Dans la foulée de ces nombreux témoignages, une nouvelle vidéo accablante pour le milliardaire vient de refaire surface.

La chaîne CBS a diffusé des images enregistrées en 1992 lors du tournage de l’émission « Entertainment Tonight » qui montrent Donald Trump faire un commentaire très déplacé au sujet d’une fillette de 10 ans qui passe près de lui.

La scène se déroule dans le hall de la Trump Tower à New-York. Donald Trump, alors âgé de 46 ans, s’adresse à une petite fille présente dans un groupe qui visite l’édifice :

« Tu prends l’escalator ?, demande l’actuel candidat républicain.

Il s’adresse ensuite au journaliste qui  l’accompagne : « Dire que dans 10 ans je sortirai avec elle, vous pouvez y croire vous ? »

Désormais, le comportement de Trump et la multiplication de ce type d’accusations pourraient lui valoir un passage devant les tribunaux. Comme le rappelle « 20 Minutes« , un avocat américain vient de relancer un dossier datant du milieu des années 1990 et la plainte d’une femme qui accuse le milliardaire de l’avoir violée en 1994, alors qu’elle était âgée de seulement 13 ans.

L. B.

Une chasse à l’homme est en cours à Saint-Honoré

Un couple de Saint-Honoré a été agressé et menacé par leur fils mercredi, donnant lieu à une importante opération policière dans le secteur.

Au moment de se présenter chez ses parents, sur le boulevard Martel, l’individu était accompagné de deux autres hommes.

Ces derniers ont été arrêtés par la police, mais l’individu lié aux occupants de la maison du boulevard Martel a pris le large.

Il se serait enfui à pied, dans un secteur boisé, derrière la résidence de ses parents.

Connu des policiers

Des policiers et enquêteurs de la Sûreté du Québec ont passé plusieurs heures sur place mercredi.

L’individu recherché est bien connu des policiers. Selon des voisins, il venait tout juste de sortir de prison.

Il aurait une longue feuille de route en matière de crimes et on ignore s’il est armé.

Toute une frousse

Le couple, qui aurait été victime des menaces, aurait eu toute une frousse. La femme aurait réussi à s’enfuir pour se réfugier chez des voisins, qui ont été alertés par ses cris.

 

Staunton welcomes group sales and marketing manager for tourism

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katie-campbell stauntonKatie Campbell has been named the City of Staunton group sales and marketing manager, a position created this fiscal year in the city’s tourism department. Campbell will help to more effectively market Staunton to potential visitors and will assist Staunton tourism businesses in remaining competitive.

Campbell has built a career in marketing, public relations, event management and sales over the last 14 years. Most recently she worked as a project manager for the Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton and for the Hylton Performing Arts Center at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County.

She previously worked at GMU’s Hylton Performing Arts Center as a marketing and audience development coordinator; at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the District of Columbia as a program coordinator; and for Prince William County Public Schools, first as a cablecast technician, and then as a producer and programmer.

Sheryl Wagner, Staunton’s director of tourism, said: “Katie brings an impressive amount of experience in promoting arts and culture. Her background is a perfect fit for Staunton, which has a lively and notable arts and culture scene that draws thousands each year from near and far. We’re excited to build on the successes we’ve had in tourism over the years and boost the City’s profile as both a hip and historical destination through Katie’s professionalism and talents.”

Campbell lives in Staunton with her family and enjoys arts and crafts, spending time outdoors exploring the Shenandoah Valley, and cheering for the Virginia Tech Hokies.

Mattr Becomes First Influencer Marketing Platform with 360-Ready Influencers

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Mattr Becomes First Influencer Marketing Platform with 360-Ready Influencers

Today Mattr announced that it is the first end-to-end influencer marketing platform to offer brands the opportunity to work with influencers who are trained, prepared, and equipped to create 360-degree videos.

With brand content creation increasing at such a rapid pace, the ability to create content that stands out from the competition will only become more important. The definition of ?quality content » is constantly evolving. Interesting, informative, or entertaining content isn’t always enough to be noticed. Today’s consumers demand more and brands must always be thinking creatively to stay ahead of the pack.

The emergence of virtual reality technology has created the desire by many consumers to become an immersive part of a brand’s content, rather than simply viewing it as a spectator. Social media networks, including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, have followed this trend, creating special platforms for 360-degree videos within their networks. While smartphone technology allows anyone to capture 360-degree video simply by moving their phone around, some brands are looking for content that provides a more seamless 360-degree experience, such as that offered by YouTube’s 360 Degree, where viewers can rotate a 360-degree video on their own to see all angles.

Mattr is answering that call for seamless 360-degree content by training and equipping its influencers to capture that content.

360-Degree Training:

Influencers who create content in innovative ways are more valuable to the brands which hire them, and in turn increases the potential for them to earn money from those paid relationships. By consistently training its influencers on the latest content creation methods and technologies, Mattr is making the influencers more desirable and improving the influencer programs for its brand clients. Mattr is training its influencers on how to capture a 360-degree experience using interactive guides and videos.

360-Degree Technology:

For those brands needing a higher quality, more polished 360-degree video than can be captured on a smartphone, Mattr is purchasing 360fly 360-degree cameras for select influencers. These cameras will allow influencers to produce a completely immersive 360-degree experience for viewers.

The 360-Degree Experience:

Two of Mattr’s influencers are already working with Mattr and creating 360-degree videos: Rosemary Kimani and Claire Rouger, co-founders of Authentic Food Quest and authors of Authentic Food Quest Argentina: A Guide To Eat Your Way Authentically Through Argentina, the first in a series of books available on Amazon. In their most recent 360 video, they walk through a farmer’s market in the streets of Paris to give viewers a truly immersive experience of what it’s like to shop local.

?The bar to being good at influencer marketing has gotten really high in the past year, » said Jack Holt, CEO of Mattr. ?So much is required to create, implement, and manage a good program. 360-degree video is the next big innovation in marketing and another tool we’re giving to brands, through influencers, that they can use to stand out. »

About Mattr:

Mattr understands that ?Personalities Tell Powerful Stories » and is leading a new era for marketing insights, providing brands with a deeper, more colorful view into their social audience – including who’s influential to their brand (and what influences them), what’s trending in influential conversations and where untapped marketing opportunities lie within brand segments.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/10/prweb13756696.htm.


mooVmoo Launches Series A Funding Round for Video Editing Portal

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In a world where people think that technology can do everything, it’s nice to know there are still a few things that we humans are better at

With close to £190 million GBP raised and backed by venture capital firms such as Balderton Capital and Draper Esprit (the exclusive Western European member of the Silicon Valley-based Draper Venture Network with historic investments including Baidu, Skype, Tesla), Crowdcube allows anyone to invest as little as £10 in mooVmoo.

mooVmoo removes the complexity of the video editing process and is perfect for GoPro enthusiasts, family video clips, and everything in between. mooVmoo is the world’s first cloud-based video editing service with a worldwide network of professional video editors that are available to edit all those videos that people shoot and never get round to dealing with.

“Our vision is for mooVmoo to be the go-to platform for millions of people who are heavy on video clips, low on time, and tired of auto-editing apps,” says Mark O’Flynn, CEO.

Luis Ureña, COO, added: “We have our sights set on accelerating our first mover advantage and this first funding round will allow us to develop a smartphone app and API to integrate with our backend system to make it even easier for customers to deliver video content to mooVmoo for editing.”

Interested investors should visit https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/moovmoo/pitches/b0z0Nl

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Chrome 54 arrives with new developer features and YouTube Flash embed rewriting to HTML5

Google today launched Chrome 54 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release is mainly focused on developers, but the improvements to how the browser handles YouTube embeds is also noteworthy. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

Chrome is arguably more than a browser: With over 1 billion users, it’s a major platform that web developers have to consider. In fact, with Chrome’s regular additions and changes, developers have to keep up to ensure they are taking advantage of everything available.

Chrome 54 rewrites YouTube Flash players to use the YouTube HTML5 embed style. YouTube ditched Flash for HTML5 by default in January 2015, but the old embeds still exist all over the web. Google says the change improves both performance and security for its desktop browser.

Chrome also now provides support for the custom elements V1 spec. Custom elements allow developers to create custom HTML tags as well as define their API and behavior in JavaScript. The V0 API will be supported until enough developers have moved to V1, though Google didn’t provide details.

Lastly, the BroadcastChannel API has been implemented to allow one-to-many messaging between windows, tabs, iframes, web workers, and service workers. In other words, this API allows scripts to establish named channels to send messages between browsing contexts of the same origin. This mainly aimed at sites that leverage multiple browser windows or tabs that let users perform more complex tasks.

Other developer features in this release include:

  • Navigations initiated in an unload handler will be blocked and any prior navigation will continue.
  • The imageSmoothingQuality attribute for CanvasRenderingContext2D allows developers to balance performance and image quality by adjusting resolution when scaling.
  • Sites can use Node.getRootNode(options) to obtain the root for a given node.
  • Using PushSubscription.options, sites can track applicationServerKeys without having to store them offline.
  • The Resource Timing API now supports transfer, encoded, and decoded size attributes, allowing developers to measure cache hit rates and byte usage.
  • The user-select property enables developers to specify which elements can be selected by the user and how.
  • Foreign Fetch and WebUSB are available for experimentation as origin trials.
  • The text-size-adjust property allows sites to control whether font size automatically scales on mobile devices.
  • CacheQueryOptions now conforms to spec across all CacheStorage methods.
  • initTouchEvent has been removed in favor of the new TouchEvent() constructor.
  • SVGZoomEvent has been removed as it is no longer part of the SVG 2.0 spec.
  • SVGSVGElement.currentView, SVGSVGElement.useCurrentView, SVGViewSpec interface, and SVGSVGElement.viewport have been removed as they are no longer part of the SVG 2.0 spec.
  • SVGTests.requiredFeatures attributehas been deprecated since it no longer provides useful functionality in the SVG 2.0 spec.
  • SVGElement now supports the dataset property.
  • The KeyEvent.keyIdentifier field has been removed in favor of the KeyboardEvent.key field.
  • window.external.IsSearchProviderInstalled() and AddSearchProvider() are now no-ops, since they are unsupported in most other browsers.

Chrome 54 also implements 21 security fixes, of which Google chose to highlight the following:

  • [$7500][645211] High CVE-2016-5181: Universal XSS in Blink. Credit to Anonymous
  • [$5500][638615] High CVE-2016-5182: Heap overflow in Blink. Credit to Giwan Go of STEALIEN
  • [$3000][645122] High CVE-2016-5183: Use after free in PDFium. Credit to Anonymous
  • [$3000][630654] High CVE-2016-5184: Use after free in PDFium. Credit to Anonymous
  • [$3000][621360] High CVE-2016-5185: Use after free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer
  • [$1000][639702] High CVE-2016-5187: URL spoofing. Credit to Luan Herrera
  • [$3133.7][565760] Medium CVE-2016-5188: UI spoofing. Credit to Luan Herrera
  • [$1000][633885] Medium CVE-2016-5192: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to haojunhou@gmail.com
  • [$500][646278] Medium CVE-2016-5189: URL spoofing. Credit to xisigr of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab
  • [$500][644963] Medium CVE-2016-5186: Out of bounds read in DevTools. Credit to Abdulrahman Alqabandi (@qab)
  • [$500][639126] Medium CVE-2016-5191: Universal XSS in Bookmarks. Credit to Gareth Hughes
  • [$N/A][642067] Medium CVE-2016-5190: Use after free in Internals. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG
  • [$500][639658] Low CVE-2016-5193: Scheme bypass. Credit to Yuyang ZHOU (martinzhou96)
  • [654782] CVE-2016-5194: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

If you add all those up, you’ll see Google spent $28,633.70 in bug bounties this time around — and that number is lowballed, given all the rewards that have yet to be decided. As always, the security fixes alone should be enough incentive for you to upgrade.

Chrome 54 for Android and iOS are also on their way, but Google has not shared exactly when they will ship. Chrome 55 will arrive in late November.