Media Channels give you a new space to share videos, photos, and files with your community. Similar to Forum Channels, Media Channels are contained in posts, so you can categorize your videos, photos, or files in an easily digestible format for your community to engage with.

There are tons of ways to use Media channels to add more value for your community but here are a few ideas to get you started:

Early Access / Behind the Scenes / Bonus Content: You can create a Server Subscription tier which gives paying subscribers access to a Media channel.

Wallpapers, PDFs, or other file downloads: Allow subscribers to view and download items from the media channel.

Share Media Posts Across Your Server: Let your community know you have a new post to view or file to download! Subscribers will be able to view or download content but subscribers wont have access unless they subscribe.

To enhance your Server Subscriptions offering you can you can use Media Channels to post content or files for your paying subscribers. This could be for a dedicated Server Subscriptions tier or a way to add additional value to an existing tier. To do this just:

Create a Media Channel and assign a new role connected to a Server Subscription tier. The subscriber will only have access to the new Media channel if they are subscribed.

Start posting content! This could be short behind-the-scenes videos, images, unlisted YouTube videos or even wallpapers, files, and / or PDFs.

BONUS: Don’t forget to share Media channel posts across your server to drive awareness and convert more people into paying subscribers.

Media Channels give you a space to provide extra content and or files to subscribers, but in order to get more members of your community to convert into new subscribers you can share individual posts from your Media Channel to other public channels within your server. Non-subscribers will see the post but will not be able to view the content unless they subscribe.

This is what a Media Channel post will look like to non-subscribers when shared to a public channel:

Subscribers will see the media thumbnail revealed when shared to a public channel.