May 2026 Product Update

Update, October 2026: Every feature in this May 2026 update is still in Mindstamp except voice questions to Genie: Genie speaks its answers, but viewers type their questions. Some settings have moved. You pick a suggested frame as a thumbnail under Design > Branding > Thumbnail, turn on Prevent passing required interactions under Settings > Viewer experience, and find the voice settings, now called Speak Genie answers aloud and Speak messages aloud, under Settings > Audio & streaming. The completion report is a report type under Reporting > Views > Export CSV. Our What's new page lists each feature with its release date. Certificates, offline mode, custom audio, and the MCP server shipped after this post; the September 2026 product update covers them.

Hi there! Summer is almost here and we've been hard at work this month making Mindstamp better for you. Here's what's new:

Thumbnail selector

For videos uploaded directly to Mindstamp, you can choose from generated video frames when setting thumbnails, making it faster to pick a clean sharing image. Our help article on changing a video thumbnail has the steps.

Choose image window with a grid of suggested thumbnail frames taken from the uploaded video — Suggested frames from the uploaded video. Pick one to use it as the thumbnail.

Hover tooltips

You can now add tooltips to buttons, hotspots, text, and images. Use them to give viewers extra context before they click, explain what an interaction does, or make guided experiences easier to follow.

A Compare models button in a video with a tooltip that describes what the link shows — A tooltip appears when the viewer points at the button.

Question breakdowns and completion reports

We've added deeper question breakdowns so you can see response patterns, correctness, and viewer-level answers more clearly. We also added completion report exports, giving you one row per participant with scores across selected videos. Our help article on reporting across several videos explains the columns.

Question breakdown with a table of each viewer, their answer, and whether it was correct — Open a question to see each viewer and their answer. Export the table as CSV.

Prevent passing required interactions

Prevent viewers from jumping past key moments before they've completed them by turning on Prevent passing required interactions on a video. If seeking is enabled and a viewer skips past a required interaction, they will automatically be moved back to it before being allowed to continue. Our guide to stopping learners from skipping ahead shows how this setting works with the seek bar controls.

Personalized playlists

You can now create personalized links for playlists, not just individual videos. That means each viewer can get a playlist experience with their own name, email, custom variables, and tracking context carried through the full journey.

New personalized link form for a playlist with a viewer name, email, and one variable filled in — A personalized link for a playlist, with the viewer details and one variable.

Spoken messages and Genie AI responses

Genie and message responses can now be spoken aloud with text-to-speech, with expanded voice options and better usage tracking. Viewers type their questions to Genie. Use the Speak messages aloud and Speak Genie answers aloud settings to turn this on. Read more about Genie AI.

Video settings with spoken Genie answers and messages turned on and the speech voice menu set to Alloy — Turn on spoken Genie answers or messages, then choose a voice and preview it.

HTML editor and icons

Text interactions now support an HTML editor and icon picker, giving you more control over formatting and visual presentation inside your videos.

Insert Icon adds an icon to a text interaction from the HTML editor.

Edit a text interaction as HTML and check the preview before you save.

Cleaner, more polished interactive layers

We improved layer sizing across questions, messages, lead capture, Genie, and other overlay experiences so interactions fit better across screen sizes and playback contexts.

More viewer-friendly details

We added better PDF modal controls, Vietnamese language support, and improved privacy controls for variables you want available during playback but omitted from stored reporting data.

API updates

We also expanded the API for creating and managing interactions, navigation actions, designs, tooltips, and related video workflows. Review the updated API documentation.

You can try these updates now in your Mindstamp account. For the releases before this one, see the April 2026 product update.

If you have any questions or need help, contact us.

Best,
The Mindstamp Team