# My List and Watchlist for OTT Platforms | Vodlix **Source:** https://vodlix.com/features/add-to-list **Summary:** Let viewers save titles for later. A personal watchlist stored against the account, available on web, mobile and TV apps, showing progress on anything already started. **Publisher:** Vodlix --- ## Add to list Let viewers save titles for later. My List keeps a personal watchlist on every device, so nothing somebody meant to watch quietly gets lost. - **Feature Plan:** 2 - tv-app - front-end - mobile-app ## The Shortlist Between Finding and Watching People discover things at the wrong moment. They find a film on a phone at lunchtime and have ninety spare minutes on Thursday. My List is what connects those two, and it is one of the quietest reasons anybody comes back. ### Interest and Opportunity Rarely Arrive Together Most of the time somebody finds something worth watching, they cannot watch it. They are on a train, or it is late, or there are twenty minutes left before dinner. Without somewhere to put that title, the interest simply evaporates, and the next time they open your service they start the search from nothing. A list fixes that at almost no cost. One press files the title away, and the next time a free evening turns up there is already a shortlist waiting rather than a blank home screen and a decision to make. #### One press, from anywhere Add to My List sits on the title page across the web, the mobile apps and the television, so a viewer files something the moment they notice it rather than trying to remember the name later. #### It belongs to the account The list lives with the viewer, not the device. Something saved on a phone at lunchtime is waiting on the television that evening, with nothing to sync and nothing to remember. #### Started and unstarted, at a glance Anything already begun carries its progress on the tile, so a viewer can tell the difference between forty minutes left of something and two hours they have not started. ### Saved on One Screen, Waiting on Another My List sits in the main navigation of your web storefront and travels into your [mobile apps](/features/mobile-apps) and [TV apps](/features/tv-apps) unchanged. That matters more than it sounds, because the device somebody discovers on is very rarely the device they watch on. A phone in a queue is where a trailer gets noticed. A television at nine in the evening is where it gets played. The list is the thread between the two, and because it belongs to the account rather than the hardware, it survives a new phone, a reinstall and a set bought at Christmas. When you run [profiles](/features/profile-selection), each person keeps their own, so a partner filing documentaries never buries somebody else's shortlist. ### A Rather Honest Demand Signal A list is also one of the more useful things a viewer will ever tell you. A save is a deliberate act, unlike a click, and a title sitting in thousands of lists unwatched is saying something specific: the artwork worked, the synopsis worked, and something after that did not. That might be a licence about to lapse, a badly placed paywall, or simply a film everybody intends to watch and nobody does. Your [reports](/features/reports-and-analytics) show which titles collect saves, and pairing that with [watch history](/features/watch-history) tells you which of them actually convert. Give the list its own row through [content lists](/features/content-lists) and returning viewers land on the shortlist they built themselves. **Q: What is My List?** A personal watchlist. A viewer saves any film or series they want to come back to, and it collects in one place they can reach from the main navigation on every device. **Q: Where can a viewer add something to their list?** From the title page on the web, in the mobile apps and on the television apps. It is a single action in each case rather than something buried in a menu. **Q: Does the list follow a viewer between devices?** Yes. It is stored against the account rather than the device, so something saved on a phone appears on the television without any action from the viewer, and survives a reinstall or a new device. **Q: Does each profile keep its own list?** When you run profiles, yes. Each person in a household builds their own shortlist, so one person's saved documentaries never crowd out somebody else's. **Q: Can a viewer see what they have already started?** Yes. Titles already begun show their progress on the tile within the list, so a viewer can pick something that fits the time they actually have. **Q: How does a watchlist help us as an operator?** It gives returning viewers somewhere to land instead of an empty decision, which lifts repeat sessions. It is also a clean demand signal, because saving is deliberate. Titles that collect saves without being watched are usually telling you something about pricing, placement or availability.