Bantu Stream Connect

This is one of our biggest Bantu Stream Connect updates yet, with major improvements across discovery, Shorts, creators, playback, performance and the overall app experience. • Personalized Shorts Your Shorts experience now gets better at surfacing content based on what you watch and engage with, while still helping you discover something new. • A bigger Keep Exploring experience Home now gives you more ways to continue discovering content through what you watched, language, mood, hidden gems and fresh discoveries. • Improved Home discovery Personalized Shorts, Continue Watching, playlists, discovery sections and more now work together more smoothly across Home. • Discovery Worlds and Journey improvements Explore now uses more accurate content formats and clearer discovery paths across films, music, podcasts, Shorts and creators. • Better creator discovery Discover Creators now includes improved discovery experiences such as City Pulse and smarter creator visibility. • Smarter Collab Requests Collab Requests now respect each creator’s own preference and only appear when that creator has chosen to accept them. • Improved creator channels Creator pages make it easier to explore videos, films, music, series, playlists and recent uploads in one place. • Stitch improvements Stitch is more reliable from source selection through processing and publishing, with better handling of source clips, transcoding, thumbnails and failed processing. • Better Shorts interactions Improvements across Shorts playback, swiping, comments, video replies, hashtags, mentions, sounds, creator discovery and content navigation. • More reliable resume playback Continue Watching and Resume are now more stable, with improved player readiness and more reliable seeking back to where you left off. • Improved Picture in Picture on iPhone PiP has been rebuilt for a more reliable experience when moving between BSC and other apps. • Better background playback Playback state is handled more cleanly when leaving and returning to the app. • Better Lock Screen playback Now Playing now includes proper elapsed time, total duration and playback progress for supported media. • Rate Bantu Stream Connect from Settings You can now rate BSC directly from Settings, alongside a native in app rating experience for eligible users. • Faster startup We reduced unnecessary work during launch so BSC can get you into the app faster. • Improved memory efficiency Image loading, video playback and long Shorts sessions are now handled more efficiently. • Smoother Shorts performance Shorts playback and background resources are better managed during longer viewing sessions. • Better image loading Content thumbnails and app imagery now use improved sizing and memory handling. • Improved deep linking Shorts and shared content links now route more reliably into the correct content experience. • Consistent verified badges and playback controls Verified creator badges and content play overlays are now more consistent across the app. • Lots of fixes and polish We’ve made improvements throughout Home, Explore, Discover Creators, Content Detail, Shorts, creator channels, uploads and media playback. South African stories first. No DNA. Just RSA.