# Watch History and Continue Watching for OTT Platforms | Vodlix **Source:** https://vodlix.com/features/watch-history **Summary:** Let viewers pick up exactly where they stopped, on any device. Vodlix stores playback position against the account and gives every viewer control of their own history. **Publisher:** Vodlix --- Track shows & movies with Watch History. Easily find what you've watched & pick up where you left off. - **Feature Plan:** 2 - core-platform - front-end - mobile-app - tv-app ## Pick Up Exactly Where They Left Off Almost nobody finishes a film in one sitting. Vodlix remembers the exact second every viewer stopped, on every device they own, so coming back is one button rather than a hunt through the timeline. ### The Second Session Is the One That Matters Getting somebody to press play the first time is the expensive part. Getting them back the next evening is what decides whether they stay subscribed. That second session is quietly fragile: if a viewer has to remember roughly how far through they were, drag a scrubber around until the scene looks familiar, and accidentally spoil the next ten minutes doing it, a good number of them simply pick something else. Vodlix removes the whole problem by remembering the position for them and offering it back the moment they open the title. #### Resume, or start again Every partly watched title offers both. Resume returns to the exact second they stopped, and Play from beginning is right underneath it for the viewer who wants a fresh run at something. #### The position follows the viewer Stop on a phone at lunchtime and the television already knows. Progress is held against the account rather than the device, so the handover between screens needs no thought at all. #### How much is left A progress bar and the time remaining sit on the title itself, so a viewer with forty minutes free can tell at a glance whether they can finish it tonight. ### One Button From the Sofa On a television everything costs more effort, because every action is a press of a directional pad rather than a click. That is exactly why resume matters most here. The Vodlix TV apps put Resume as the focused option the moment a partly watched title opens, with its progress drawn into the button, so continuing is a single press of OK. Play from beginning sits directly beneath for anyone who wants to start over. Nobody has to scrub through a two hour film with a remote to find their place, which is the fastest way to lose a living room audience there is. - mx-auto ### And in Their Pocket Phones are where viewing gets interrupted most, so the same treatment carries into your [mobile apps](/features/mobile-apps). The title page shows how far in they are and how long is left, with Resume and Play from beginning stacked in the obvious place. Because the position lives on the account, a commute picks up where the sofa stopped, and the [TV apps](/features/tv-apps) pick up where the commute stopped. - mx-auto ### Their History, Under Their Control Watch history is personal data, and treating it that way is both decent and increasingly a legal requirement. Every viewer gets a readable account of what they watched, which device they watched it on and when, and they can delete any entry themselves without contacting anyone. On a shared account that matters more than it sounds. On your side, the same signal is what powers continue watching rails and feeds your [reports and analytics](/features/reports-and-analytics), so you can see which titles actually get finished rather than only which ones get started. Pair it with [profile selection](/features/profile-selection) and each person in a household keeps their own history rather than inheriting everybody else's. **Q: What does watch history actually record?** What the viewer watched, the device they watched it on, and when. Each entry is listed in their account, and the playback position is stored alongside it so any partly watched title can be resumed. **Q: Does progress carry across devices?** Yes. The position is held against the account rather than the device, so a viewer can stop on a phone and resume on a television, or the other way round, without doing anything to make it happen. **Q: Can viewers start a title again from the beginning?** Always. Play from beginning sits directly under Resume on every partly watched title, so nobody is ever forced back into the middle of something they wanted to rewatch. **Q: Can a viewer delete their watch history?** Yes. Each entry has its own delete control in the account area, so a viewer can remove individual titles themselves without raising a support request. On shared accounts that is usually the first thing people look for. **Q: Does each profile keep its own history?** When you run profiles, yes. Each person in a household keeps their own history and their own resume positions, so one person's viewing never turns up in somebody else's continue watching row. **Q: How does watch history help me as an operator?** It powers your continue watching rails, which is one of the strongest returning visit prompts a streaming service has, and it feeds your analytics with completion data. Knowing which titles get finished rather than merely opened is what tells you where your catalogue budget is working.