
How We Added an Email Gate to Shared Videos
You share a product demo with a prospect. The analytics show 5 views. But who watched? Did the decision-maker see it, or just the person you sent the link to? View counts can't answer that. We added an email gate to SendRec . When enabled on a video, viewers enter their email before they can watch. The email shows up in the per-video analytics page alongside view count and completion percentage. You know exactly who watched your video and how much of it they saw. The gate flow A video in SendRec can have two gates: a password gate (existing feature) and an email gate (new). They're evaluated in order — password first, then email. If a video has both, the viewer enters the password, then sees the email form. The email gate is a minimal form matching the password gate's dark theme — just a title, a subtitle ("Enter your email to watch this video"), an email input, and a "Watch Video" button. No name field, no company field. One input, minimal friction. When the viewer submits their email
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