Updates and improvements

• Direct Message Beta Improvements*: Keep your community engaged with richer Direct Messages, which now allow for GIFs, Catalog video links, and Admin-to-member image sharing.

* - Feature is in testing and will be released soon.

• Sign Up with Email: Verify your new member email addresses and reduce friction in the checkout process with a new sign-up experience using magic links. 
• Popular Category Sorting: Highlight which videos are trending with the ability to sort categories by most popular content from the past 7 or 30 days.
• Multiple Audio Tracks: Offer a personalized viewing experience of different languages or music options by adding multiple audio tracks to your videos.
• Gated Zoom Links*: Host two-way livestreams where you and your audience can see and interact with each other using Zoom or other meeting platforms. 
• Calendar Streak Breaks*: Let users take a break while maintaining their watch streaks and make it easier for them to stay consistent, engaged, and motivated over time.
• Calendar Badges*: Reward your members for their watch activity with badges that will appear on their profile.

* - Feature is in testing and will be released soon.

• Euro Payment Method Subscription Support: Users can now purchase subscriptions with iDeal, Sofort, and SEPA. 
• Buy Now, Pay Later*: Subscribers can split the payments of one-time offers with Affirm, Afterpay, and Klarna.
• Localized Pricing*: Sell your offerings in more than one currency based on your audience geography. 
• Team Subscriptions*: Sell membership access to businesses and schools and easily manage multiple user seats under one account.
  

* - Features are included in the Advanced Monetization add-on, which will be released in the next quarter.

• Email Capture*: Build your email list and sales funnel with a new email capture block on landing pages. 

* - Feature is in development and will be released soon.

• Uscreen Analytics Benchmarks: Understand your performance compared to other Uscreen customers within your industry and optimize your business strategy with new Subscription & Content Benchmarks reports. 
• Advanced Analytics*: Make smarter, faster decisions with the ability to build custom reports and dashboards, automate updates, schedule data alerts, and uncover new insights.

* - Features are included in the Advanced Analytics add-on, which will be released in the next quarter.

• Samsung TV App: Reach more end-users and improve watch time by giving your subscribers the option to stream content from their Samsung TV. 
• Music Integration*: Members can play their own playlists from popular music streaming platforms like Spotify or Apple Music – or yours – which curates their movement experience and saves your business time and money on music licensing. This feature was previously known as Spotify Integration.

* - Feature is in development and will be released soon.

• Community Direct Message*: Connect with subscribers and encourage engagement with 1:1 private messaging within your community. 

* - Contact your customer success manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Sign Up with Email: Verify your new member email addresses and reduce friction in the checkout process with a new sign-up experience using magic links. 
• Calendar Streaks*: Subscribers can see their daily watch streaks on the Calendar, encouraging engagement and consistent usage. 
• Calendar Badges*: Reward your members for their watch activity with badges that will appear on their profile. 
• Device Limits (known as Simultaneous Viewing Limits)*: Prevent account sharing by setting limits on the number of active sessions. 

* - Contact your customer success manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Collect Tax in Checkout: Charge subscribers for sales tax, VAT, and GST based on their location at checkout. You must be on Stripe Billing to access it.
• Gift Cards: Optimize the purchase process by allowing users to buy gift cards for subscriptions and bundles with different payment methods and giving them a shareable link to give the gift card via text, email, or social media.  
• Buy Now, Pay Later*: Subscribers can split the payments of one-time offers with Affirm, Afterpay, and Klarna.
• Localized Pricing*: Sell your offerings in more than one currency based on your audience geography. 
  

* - Features are included in the Monetization Power Pack add-on, which will be released in the next quarter.

Uscreen Analytics Marketing & Community Reports: Understand the impact of your marketing efforts and measure community engagement.

• Samsung TV App: Reach more end-users and improve watch time by giving your subscribers the option to stream content from their Samsung TV. 
• Mobile 3.21 Update - Sign Up with Email: Verify your new member email addresses and reduce friction in the checkout process with a new sign-up experience using magic links. 
• Mobile 3.21 Update - Spotify Integration (Mobile Only): Members can enjoy their choice of music on Spotify during their workout or yoga routine and control the audio volume while you can directly link Spotify playlists in your video descriptions. This feature is part of the Fitness Power Pack add-on, which is now available.
• Mobile 3.21 Update - Calendar Badges*: Reward your members for their watch activity with badges that will appear on their profile. 

* - Contact your customer success manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Optimized Community Layout on Web: Subscribers can more easily see pinned posts and their notification feed, allowing for more efficient navigation and engagement. 

• Community Direct Message*: Connect with subscribers and encourage engagement with 1:1 private messaging within your community. 

* Contact your Customer Success Manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Sign in with email: Subscribers can quickly sign in by clicking a link in email. No need to remember passwords.

• Device Limits (known as Simultaneous Viewing Limits) - Beta available: Prevent account sharing by setting limits on the number of active sessions.

• Calendar Streaks*: Subscribers can see their daily watch streaks on the Calendar, encouraging engagement and consistent usage.

* Contact your Customer Success Manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Improved Checkout - Beta available: Optimizes the checkout experience by simplifying the checkout to 1-page to improve conversions and reduce checkout friction.

• Stripe Billing Integration:  Reduce failed payments, offer more payment methods to your subscribers, and access more advanced financial analytics. 

• Pause Subscriptions: Subscribers can now pause their monthly membership access and billing for up to 3 months, reducing churn. 

The following features are in development and require Stripe Billing before accessing:

• Collect Tax in Checkout: Charge subscribers for sales tax based on their location at checkout. 

• Localized Pricing: Offer pricing options based on the subscriber’s location.  

* Contact your Customer Success Manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Uscreen Analytics: We’ve completely revamped our Analytics to provide you with more consistent, reliable insights into your business financials, subscribers, and video content. 

• New Website Editor: See your website changes in real-time with the side-by-side editor view and customize key elements of your website like your top navigation and branding.

* Contact your Customer Success Manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Mobile 3.20 Update - Vertical Thumbnails (available for customers with New Website Editor): This update provides the option to add a vertical thumbnail to your videos. 

• Mobile 3.20 Update - Download Quality Selector: Select the download quality for videos in the catalog.

• Mobile 3.20 Update - Calendar Streaks*: Subscribers can see their daily watch streaks on the Calendar, encouraging engagement and consistent usage. 

• Mobile 3.20 Update - Direct Messages*: Connect with subscribers and encourage engagement with 1:1 private messaging within your community.

• TV app updates: Improvements to the overall viewing experience were made across Roku, AppleTV, Fire TV, and Android TV apps such as improved Live Rewind, refreshed buttons, and simpler search.

* Contact your Customer Success Manager if you want to be part of product testing.

• Community posts streamlined: We aligned the user experience for community posts across web and mobile platforms. Prioritized features like liking posts and following users to enhance engagement and retention.

• Remove channel limit: No more limits on the number of public and private channels, allowing you to segment your community as you see fit.

• Improve like list: Clearly display who likes posts and comments to encourage further interaction.

• Automatic caption generation: Every video uploaded to Uscreen now automatically receives a transcribed caption track to enhance accessibility.

• Video chapter on timeline: Labeled video chapters in the description now appear on the video player timeline across all apps and devices.

• DVR/Rewind on web, mobile, TV apps - Web released. App coming soon: For users to rewind live streams across all platforms.

• Simultaneous viewing limits  - Beta available: Prevent account sharing by setting limits on the number of active sessions.

• Sign in with email - Beta available: Quickly sign in by clicking a link in email. No need to remember passwords.

• Live stream improvements: Multiple QoL changes to live stream studio and rewind.

• Subscription management: Added easy-to-use popup modals for applying coupons, adding subscriptions, canceling, and deleting subscriptions.

• Native Paypal: Replaced our Braintree -> PayPal integration with a self-serve option that can be connected in under 5 minutes.

• Stripe Billing - Opt-in available; contact your success manager: Integrated more deeply with Stripe, expanding support for payment methods like Apple Pay and SEPA.

• Tax support - Beta available: Deployed Stripe Tax to automatically calculate appropriate taxes at checkout for direct remittance via Stripe.

• Subscription price increase tool: Creators can now raise prices for existing members and send an email notification directly from the subscription setup interface.

• Watch videos while listening to music: Specifically for the digital wellness use case, allowing members to enjoy their choice of music while doing their workout/yoga routines. 

• Internal tooling: Ensuring apps remain up-to-date and developer accounts stay in good standing.

• Compact Player: YouTube-like interaction to allow videos to continue playing in a small window while users browse other stuff.

• E-Commerce Links - Coming soon: Achieve parity with Web by offering in-video product cards.