Patreon is one of the most popular and widely used sponsorship platforms today. And there are many reasons for this, as the service allows creators to fine-tune support levels, rewards for each, in addition to providing the necessary communication tools between creators and their community to encourage interaction between the two parties, one of them. a feature most valued by many of its users.

So much, in fact, one of the most valuable rewards for many is priority communication channels with the creator. Either directly from a private feed provided by the service, with access to exclusive channels on Discord servers, such as comedian David Suárez’s, or monthly live streams where creators and followers can talk about a variety of topics, such as What’s Happening in in the case of Jaime Altozan, this type of interaction is always rated very, very positively.

Another benefit that patronage through Patreon provides is access to exclusive content, which in many cases is videos. Eye, this is not to be confused with patron exclusive previews, because in this case the creator uploads the video to whatever platform it is, usually YouTube, but leaves it hidden and unindexed. This way, only people who have the direct access link will see it. A few hours or days later, the creator changes the status of the video to public, and from then on everyone can see it.

I don’t mean this type of privilege, also quite common, but videos recorded exclusively for patrons, videos that are also uploaded to YouTube or other platforms, but are permanently hidden. However, in this case, many creators are concerned that the links will eventually be published and the exclusivity of that content will be lost. This is why it has long been a frequent request from creators on Patreon that the platform allow videos to be uploaded to private feeds so that only patrons can see them.

And the good news, as we can read on Engadget, is that Patreon has completed testing in this regard and has already started offering some Patreon accounts the ability to upload their videos directly to the platform. At the moment, the feature is only available for Pro and Premium accounts, but this is because it is currently in a limited early access phase, presumably both to test its functionality and assess its reception, and in parallel with the latter point, properly manage the provision of resources that may be necessary if the volume of video to be served is very high, and even more so if some type of transcoding needs to be done in real-time, that is, while serving it.