Hello,

Like what you see - leave a tip!

Channels can now receive a tip from their viewers and fans!
All information is in our Help Center: Receiving or sending Tips
In a nutshell:

• All monetized channels are enabled for receiving tips.
• Tips are processed with a low site cut fee of only 8%
• Later this month, we will release the channel editor, which allows you to receive tips directly (without the need for a video purchase)
  • EDIT: You can also tip directly by going to the channels about page and clicking 'Tip Me'.

Useful links:

• Help page: Receiving or sending Tips
• My wallet
• My monetization options - to disable tips for your channel

Best regards,
WatchFighters

Hello,

With today's update, we are granting the wish of a few channels: gift codes.

Gift codes

• You can now share any monetized video or post by creating a gift code for your viewer to redeem.
• Currently, this is limited to posts; gifting subscriptions are not possible yet.
  • Please let us know what you think! Discount codes? Trial version of subscriptions? Anything else? - And why - as this is critical for prioritizing futures updates. Of course everyone wants everything ;)
• Contact us for an exception regarding gift codes fees.

Primary Channel Video

And in case you missed it, you can now select a primary channel video.
Open your Account settings and select a primary video.
This video will always be shown if a member visits your main channel page.

We continue to bring you more bug fixes and minor changes such as new icons. We are also fine-tuning our video renderer, resulting in better video quality if the source video has a lot of pixel noise.

Useful links:

• Your channel's gift codes
• Help page: Creating gift codes
• Help page: Redeeming gift codes
• Contact us for an exception regarding gift code fees.

What's next?

If all goes well, the next update will focus on full channel customization! Think about a website builder for your channel. - Stay tuned!

Best regards,
WatchFighters

Hello,

Today's update introduces the recently released notification center - accessible over the bell icon on the top.

For content creators, we introduce a brand new dashboard, replacing the old settings page.

The dashboard shows you the number of views, preview views, sales, and profits created. It also provides you with all links needed to change or verify any settings.
All notification messages previously sent to your mail inbox got moved to the new notification area.

The dashboard also features some graphs showing you your revenue, fans and viewa over time. Data collection for this graphs was enabled a week ago, so that is how far the data goes back.

Privacy statement: All data is collected inside WatchFighters, and not referenced with any 3rd party products like google analytics or similar. As a viewer and creator, you can ensure that no data will be sold or moved to any system outside WatchFighters.

The current dashboard is the first step to provide you with more feedback on how your videos are performing in the long term. We plan to extend the capabilities in the following weeks and months to come.

On top of that, we added more minor changes, bug fixes, and improvements in the past weeks.

Best Regards
WatchFighters

Hello again!

Thank you for using the site and reporting errors and new feature ideas. Please keep doing so!

Some of the ideas you sent us got implemented in today's site update:

• Video download
  • Content creators can now make videos available for download.
  • To enable downloads, click on 'edit' on the your-content page, and scroll down to the last option: 'Download.'
  • We automatically provide downloads for .mp4 and .webm to ensure maximum compatibility and quality.
  • On the preview page of each video, you can see if the download option got activated by the content creator - before you buy the content.
  • Content creators can decide for each video individual if they are allowing downloads.
  • For existing videos, you can edit your video and enable or disable the download option at any time.
  • If a video is not available for download, you can contact the channel and ask if he might consider enabling the option.
  • Downloading videos is also available for free and restricted videos.
• The wallet got improved and also added to the primary user menu (top right user icon). In addition, the wallet also now displays the full video title.
• Multiple bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements.
• E-Mail notification got enabled

Best Regards,
WatchFighters

Hello,

Thank you for all the Beta Feedback!

We also want to thank our first content creators for trusting WatchFighters and uploading their content! The first payouts happened already!

In the past few days, we implemented a bunch of improvements.

New for Viewers

Today we launch the first version of the search, which can be accessed on the top of the page. You can search for channels, content creators, videos, and categories. And filter the results. - All that you would expect from a modern search.

New for Content Creators

Another improvement is the auto-generating of thumbnails for monetized videos. Content creators have the option to upload a trailer video, some pictures and text to act as a "preview" for their monetized videos and posts. Now this has been made a bit easier: some still frames from a monetized video automatically become "preview" pictures. This is now activated for all monetized videos, but if you do not like it, you can Edit your preview to disable thumbnails again.

You can access the video settings either on the video page itself (directly below your video) or over the "Edit" menus on the Your content page. You also find a new 'show preview' button that lets you quickly validate what visitors see when accessing your monetized video.

The Small Stuff

Other minor improvements from the past days:

• You can now see the progress of your uploaded videos being encoded.
• Video problems for MacOS users were fixed.
• Improved Explore page
• Bugfixes and performance improvements
• Better layout on smartphones

Useful links from this News post:

• Your content
• Search
• Our public change log
• Beta Feedback!

Stay safe!

Best Regards,
WatchFighters