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Backstage 2.0

Over the last few months, we’ve been heads down working on a major update to our Backstage platform. With this release, our focus went beyond adding features, and we intentionally invested in refining the user experience across Backstage, improving clarity, consistency, and overall usability.

This work was directly informed by conversations with you. Your feedback, real-world workflows, and day-to-day pain points helped guide where we focused our time, and this release reflects what we’ve heard most clearly from our clients.

Today, we’re excited to share Backstage 2.0; a release centered on UI/UX improvements, stronger validations, and new capabilities that make the platform easier to navigate, faster to work in, and more intuitive.

Let’s dive in.

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Video and Playlist workflows - streamlined and more intuitive

The Video Library and Detail screens have been thoughtfully polished to reduce visual noise and surface the most important information more clearly. Layout, spacing, and interaction patterns have all been refined to improve day to day usability.

What’s new across the board:

  • Bulk editing of tags - making large-scale tag updates faster and more manageable

  • Bulk delete - simplifying library cleanup

  • Details Checklist - helps ensure you have everything you need to Publish

  • Details Tags Update - comma separated tags can be pasted to add multiple in one action

Video

  • Markers Editor - a visual and intuitive method to manage ad breaks, autoplays, and chapters

These updates make typical video workflows quicker, clearer, and more consistent.

Playlist

Playlist workflows have been visually and structurally refined to improve readability and ease of use across all playlist types, including:

  • Preset Segmenting - find manual or dynamic presets faster

  • Dynamic Playlist composition - view filter adjustments in real time

  • No more Drop Zone - delete items using the trash icon

The updated UI emphasizes consistency and predictability, helping teams build and manage playlists with less friction.

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Pages - designed for iteration and control

We’re introducing updates to Pages, built with a strong focus on clarity, flexibility, and safe iteration.

New capabilities include:

  • Improved rail reordering - Drag and Drop from anywhere or type the position number to quickly move

  • Improved versioning - Manage multiple versions of a page simultaneously

  • Update Rail Source - Change the associated playlist with a click

Together, these enhancements make page management more visual, more forgiving, and easier to evolve over time.

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New building blocks without added clutter

Backstage 2.0 introduces the Utility section, designed to expand flexibility without compromising usability. This means libraries are now content-specific, significantly reducing noise and improving searchability when teams are looking for the right type of content.

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Objects & Feeds

Objects function the same as Videos, but do not have the same content requirements. Image keys and videos are not required, and these entities do not appear in the Video or Playlist Libraries. This allows the building blocks of our front end application support to be created without forcing them into video centric workflows. This is further compounded with Feeds, allowing users to group Objects create playlists with a purpose.

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A cleaner, more flexible foundation

Tenant Configuration has been carefully redesigned with a cleaner layout, improved visual hierarchy, and clearer grouping of related configurations. The result is a more approachable and maintainable configuration experience, especially for complex tenants.

The refreshed interface includes improvements to:

  • General settings

  • Language

  • Audiences (formerly Networks)

  • Rail styles

  • Image types

  • Page types (formerly HPC)

  • Custom parameters

  • Video presets

  • Playlist presets

  • Feed presets (new)

  • Object presets (new)

Preset management has also been refined. Presets can now be soft deleted, allowing teams to confidently clean up configurations while preserving historical context.

Across Tenant Configuration, we’ve introduced stronger UI validations with clearer feedback, reducing configuration errors and making it easier to understand what’s required at each step.

And for teams managing multiple audiences, Backstage 2.0 now supports using the same language across audiences, reducing duplication and simplifying setup.

This release represents a meaningful step forward in how Backstage looks, feels, and functions. Thank you for the feedback, conversations, and collaboration that helped shape Backstage 2.0. Your input continues to directly influence where we focus and how we build.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think as you explore the release.

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