This month, we're giving teams enterprise-grade content protection, deeper search and filtering controls, better visibility into how they're using Iconik, and more.
In this release:
- Comment filtering in Review shares — filter by annotation, commenter, completion, visibility, and more
- Multi-select filter modifiers now include transcription text filters
- Version comparison in Playlists — compare any version to any version, side by side
- New billing and consumption dashboard — see your usage against plan limits in real time
- Sync toggle for playlist and asset shares
- Watermark display settings — choose whether watermarks show in iconik, on shares, or both
- Internal comments in Review — keep internal notes separate from external collaborator feedback
- Face recognition improvements
- ACL propagation control for administrators
Comment filtering in Review shares
Filtering is now available in the comments panel for Review shares. You can filter by:
- Annotation presence
- Annotation color
- Commenter
- Completion status
- Mentions
- Replies
- Visibility (public or internal)
Filtering sits alongside the existing sort options (by date or timecode), so you can narrow the comment list to exactly what you need to act on.
These filters are available in the Iconik New Review Experience. Support for filters in the Iconik asset player is coming in a future release.
Multi-select filter modifiers now include transcription text
You can now use multi-select filters with Transcription text — meaning you can build search queries that get into the actual substance of your content. Find assets where someone mentions one topic but not another, or where two specific things are discussed together.
The multi-select filters are available across the filter panel alongside several other fields — including people (face recognition), storage location, created by, and deleted by — so you can combine conditions without having to use an advanced search query. The transcription piece is where this gets genuinely powerful for teams working with spoken-word content at scale.
Version comparison in Playlists
You can now compare any two versions of any asset in a playlist. Open the compare view, select the versions you want — they don't need to be related or grouped — and evaluate them together in a single screen. When grouped versions are available, the comparison defaults to those, but you're never locked in. You can compare using side-by-side analysis, overlay with transparency, or using a wipe.
New Billing admin page: See exactly how you're using your plan
The new billing and consumption dashboard gives you a real-time view of your usage across users, storage, transfers, AI analysis, automations, and more, all measured against your plan limits. Usage approaching your limits is flagged in yellow; anything over appears in red, so you always know where you stand before it becomes a problem. We built this because we heard consistently that teams wanted more transparency into their plan usage without having to ask their account team.
Access it via Billing in your admin settings. Domain owners can see it by default; power users need the "can read billing" permission in their role.
Toggle sync on and off for shares
When creating a playlist or asset share, you can now control whether synchronized review is available to recipients. The toggle is on by default, but turning it off removes sync as an option within the share entirely. Administrators can also disable sync globally for all shares from the Share Management settings.
More control over when and where watermarks appear
You can now choose whether watermarks display on assets inside iconik, on shares only, or both. The setting lives in Admin > Settings > Watermark Settings, under "Show in assets." Previously, watermarks applied everywhere. This toggle gives you more granular control, particularly useful when you want to protect content in external review without cluttering the internal experience.
Note: for a watermark to appear on a share, visual watermarks must be enabled in Admin watermark settings and the watermark option must be turned on in the Share dialogue when sharing the asset.
Internal comments now available in Review
Logged-in users can now create and view internal comments directly within a review session, not just inside the Iconik management interface. When collaborating on a share, internal comments are clearly labeled, so your team's internal notes stay visible to the right people and separate from feedback intended for external collaborators. This closes a gap that made it harder to keep the conversation organized when both internal and external reviewers were working in the same share.
Face recognition improvements
This release includes a round of fixes and refinements to face recognition, including reliability improvements, updates to face-matching logic, and general UI cleanup. Please see the changelog for the full list of updates.
ACL propagation control for administrators
Administrators can now disable the "Propagate ACL" Role via Role Groups. For teams managing access at scale, this means access rules behave exactly as you've set them — no unexpected changes triggered by individual users. It keeps control where it belongs: with the people responsible for managing it.
Availability:
- Comment filtering in Review shares: available in the New Review Experience. Asset player support is coming in a future release.
- Billing dashboard access is role-dependent: domain owners and power users with the "can read billing" permission.
- All other features in this release are available to all Iconik customers.
See the full list of changes, fixes, and updates via the Changelog →