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Step-by-step guides for watching, creating and selling on Watch Sports.
Getting started
Create an account, sign in and set up your profile.
- Create an account Sign up to watch, follow and buy.
- Sign in to your account Sign in with your email address and password, and find the reset link if you have forgotten it.
- Recover your password Reset a forgotten password by email.
- Update your account Change your name, photo, email, password and preferences.
- Set your email preferences Choose which emails you receive, or unsubscribe.
- Find videos Browse, search and filter to find something to watch.
Watching and your library
Players, follows, favorites, playlists and comments.
- Watch a video Play a video and use the controls under it.
- Follow organizations and channels Keep up with new videos and streams from the teams you care about.
- Save favorites and Watch Later Keep videos you love and queue the ones you have not got to yet.
- Review your watch history Pick up where you left off, or clear what you watched.
- Create a personal playlist Collect videos from anywhere on the platform into a playlist only you can see.
- Comment on a video Join the conversation under a video.
- Report content Flag a video, channel, organization or comment for the moderation team.
- Block a channel or organization Stop seeing content from a channel or organization.
Buying, renting and subscribing
Pay for content and manage your purchases.
- Buy or rent a video Pay for a single video and watch it.
- Subscribe to a channel or organization Pay monthly for everything inside a channel or organization.
- See your purchases Find everything you bought, rented or subscribed to.
- Cancel or resume a subscription Stop a subscription renewing, or undo that before the period ends.
- Change your subscription plan Switch billing cycle or move to a different access level.
Watching live
Find live streams and get notified when they start.
Your organization
Create and run an organization, invite your team.
- Create an organization Set up the organization that owns your channels, videos and earnings.
- Get your organization verified What probation limits, and how verification lifts them.
- Edit your organization profile Change your organization's name, description and images.
- Invite team members Give people roles on your organization so they can upload, sell, moderate or read reports.
- Partner with another organization Link two organizations so they appear on each other's pages.
- Retire or delete content Take a video, channel or organization out of circulation, with or without a grace period for buyers.
- View the event log See who changed what on your organization, channel or video.
Channels
Create channels and manage who works on them.
- Create a channel Add a channel to your organization to hold a set of videos.
- Edit a channel Change a channel's name, description, free setting or images.
- Manage a channel's team Give other people roles on a channel, and remove them.
- Show a playlist in a channel Place one of your organization's playlists on a channel page.
Videos
Upload, publish, caption and replace videos.
- Upload a video Add a video to one of your channels and decide when it goes live.
- Edit video details Change a video's title, description, channels and tags after uploading.
- Publish or schedule a video Make a processed video visible now, or set the window when it is visible.
- Choose a thumbnail Pick or upload the image viewers see before they press play.
- Add and edit captions Add captions in the editor and fix their timing and text.
- Translate captions Create caption tracks in other languages from the ones you have.
- Add cue point links Show a clickable card over the video at a chosen moment, linking to another video, channel, playlist or page.
- Replace a video file Swap in a new file while keeping the video's address, views and comments.
- Retry a failed upload What to do when a video shows Processing failed.
Organization playlists
Bundle videos into playlists you can place in channels or sell.
Selling your content
Offers, the paywall, Stripe and discounts.
- How the paywall works Why a new video is not free, what an offer covers, and the one switch that makes a channel free.
- Make a channel free Let everyone watch every video in a channel without paying.
- Connect Stripe to get paid Set up the payment account that receives your share of every sale.
- Sell a video Put a one-time price on a single video so viewers can buy permanent access.
- Rent out a video Sell time-limited access to a video, with a viewing window that starts when the viewer presses play.
- Sell pay-per-view Sell a fixed number of plays of a video inside a time window.
- Sell a subscription Sell monthly access to everything in your organization or in one channel.
- Sell a bundle Sell a hand-picked set of channels or videos as one subscription.
- Activate an offer Switch a draft offer on so viewers see it, and get it published for payment.
- Check the paywall as a viewer See exactly what viewers see on your paid content before you announce it.
- Create a discount Take a percentage or a fixed amount off one of your offers.
- Change or archive an offer Edit an offer's price or details, or stop selling it.
- Replace your Stripe account Move payouts to a different Stripe account, for example after a change of ownership.
Finances and payouts
Revenue reports, settlements and payouts.
Affiliates for your organization
Pay partners to promote your content.
Live streaming
Schedule, broadcast and end live streams.
- Schedule a live stream Announce a stream with a start time so followers can set reminders.
- Get your stream key Find the server URL and stream key your streaming software needs, and replace the key if it leaks.
- Go live with OBS Start a scheduled stream from OBS or similar software.
- End a stream Stop the broadcast and turn the recording into a video.
- Cancel or reschedule a stream Move a scheduled stream to a new time, or call it off.
Comments, chat, ads and analytics
Moderation, ad settings and audience insights.
- Turn comments on or off Allow or disable comments for an organization, a channel or a single video.
- Turn ads on or off Control whether free content shows ads, per organization, channel or video.
- Moderate comments Pin, highlight or hide comments on your content.
- Moderate live chat Delete messages, time out or ban people during a stream.
- Read video analytics See views, watch time, retention and where viewers come from.
Affiliate portal
Earn commissions by promoting organizations and content.
- Become an affiliate Join the affiliate program and connect the account you are paid to.
- Join a bounty Pick a program and get your tracking link.
- Share your affiliate link Copy your link, share it, and rotate it if it leaks.
- Track your commissions See what you earned, what is pending and what has been paid out.
- Refer an organization Earn on every sale of an organization you bring to the platform.