Hello,

Today we are bringing two minor Easter updates. Enjoy!

• Video mouse over playback implemented. Hover over a video thumbnail to see the first seconds as a preview.
• Channel specific Video Tags. Add tags to your videos and let your viewers filter them on your channel's "Videos" tab.

Additionally, we have improved the loading time of our main page.
And, as always, continuous bug fixes. :)

Best Regards,
WatchFighters

Hello,

Our payout process has been adjusted, effective April 2022.

Short version

• To be eligible for automatic payout, you need either a payable amount over $100.00, or no payouts in the last 60 days, whichever happens sooner. Payouts happen once per week, usually on Sunday. You can check the exact date on your Wallet page.

Longer version

Automatic payouts are initiated on Sundays, meaning the money should be in your bank account on Monday.

To be eligible for an automatic payout, you needed to have at least $100 (100EUR / 100GBP) payable in your wallet. "Payable" is all your revenue, excluding sales made in the last 48 hours. Your Wallet page shows your payable amount in real-time, including the next estimated payout date.

NEW: Starting in April 2022, we additionally make automatic payments to channels that have not yet reached $100 if the last payment was made more than 60 days ago. As usual, automatic payouts are free of charge. This is to the benefit of smaller channels that only earn small amounts of money. You can still request a manual payout, following the appropriate link in your wallet. But we hope with these changes, this will no longer be necessary.

Disclaimer: While we aim for Sunday payouts, unexpected circumstances, as well as bank holidays, can modify the actual payout. We reserve the right to make the automatic payments somewhat earlier or later. Please refer to your wallet to determine when WatchFighters initiated your last payout.

Best Regards,
WatchFighters

Hello,

Today's update brings another new feature that will allow you to promote and highlight videos that are part of a collaboration with another channel here on WatchFighters.

If you and your friend both have a WatchFighter channel and created a video together, you can now mark the other Channel as Collaborator.
Doing so will have the following effect:

• The video is added on both channels
  • the comment section and view count will be the same
• Under the video, both channels will be displayed.
• Optionally, you can automatically share revenue generated by this video with the other Channel.
  • You can select between 0% - 100% of revenue to share. WatchFighters will automatically transfer the right amount to the partner's wallet - no additional costs apply.
  • Selecting 0% (or 100%) means only one of you will get the revenue, which might be helpful in situations where you only want to highlight the video and contribution of your partner channel. But your financials of the collaboration was already covered beforehand.
  • Tips are Channel exclusive and will not be shared
  • Subscriptions are not affected and will not be shared

How does it work:

1. Decide upfront which of you uploads the video - only one of you needs to do the steps below.
   1. the 2nd Channel will become notified to confirm the collaboration before the video is added to his Channel.
2. Upload a new video
   1. Or edit an existing video (in this case, only new purchases will be shared)
3. In the new "Collaboration" section, select the channel name of your co-creator.
4. Use the slider to split the revenue; The default is 50-50%
   1. Select 0% if you want to keep all the earnings.
   2. Select 100% if you wish the partner channel should get all the earnings.
   3. (Revenue is video price minus your site cut minus your charity and VAT - if applicable, the rest will be shared based on your selection.)
5. Click "Save".
6. The new video will be added to your Channel as usual.
7. From now on, all new purchases will be shared based on your choice.
8. The 2nd Channel receives a notification with the details of your settings. Only once he confirms the collaboration will the video be displayed on his Channel.

As usual, both your wallets will transparently inform you how much money you sent or received for the video.
A new collaboration filter is available under Your Content, with some quick actions to stop a collaboration and remove a video if needed.
Each of you still has complete control over his Channel at any time.

Best Regards,
WatchFighters

Dear all,

With shock, we follow the news and the evolving situation in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at president Putin's command puts all Ukrainian citizens in great danger.

To support our Ukraine members on MeetFighters, we decided to use January and February revenue created by WatchFighters for our MeetFighters FighterAid project.
More information on MeetFighters.com

We are the world.

Hello,

Hopefully, you have noticed a significant improvement in video streaming for new uploads in the past few days!
A massive investment in our backend, which is not finished yet - should already show significant improvements.

The new standard for video encoding removed the lag or delay some of you might have experienced when accessing videos. It also improves the overall streaming quality and responsiveness when scrolling through a video. And with this solid background, we decided to enable FullHD and 4k as well.
Over the following weeks, we are planning to convert all WatchFighters content to the new standard and update it to FullHD/4k if possible.^*

FullHD and 4k are free of charge for the channels and viewers - no extra costs are involved. But, of course, the uploaded video must fulfill the technical requirement^** to encode it in FullHD or 4k. To support 4k videos the maximum file size for videos was doubled, to 10GB per file.

Additionally, Channels now have filter options in their wallet to find purchases of viewers or for specific videos.

In case of any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Best Regards,
WatchFighters

^* Until all our content gets converted to our new streaming standard, older videos might still suffer some delay. In this case, please give your browser some time, and try again. The most straightforward way for the viewer to find out if the video is already converted is to look for the video quality selector in the bottom-right part. If you can choose the video's quality - which is normally based on your bandwidth, then the video is already converted.
Also, HD, FullHD, and 4k videos are marked in the video overview - if you see these icons, you can be sure that the streaming experience will be smooth.
If you uploaded an HD/4k video but you don't see the new icon yet, please wait: we are converting all videos in the background which will take a few weeks.

^** There are a lot of marketing terms around 'HighDefinition Video', we use the technical specifications on WatchFighters:
HD which was until a few days ago our default is now extended up to 4k:

• HD - HighDefinition= 720p
• FHD - FullHD = 1080p
• UHD - UltraHD or 4k = 2160p