See exactly who's viewed your shared media files
In fast-moving newsrooms and media production environments, knowing whether a source, editor, or broadcaster has actually looked at your files matters as much as sending them. WeTransfer shows you preview and download activity for every transfer, so you have real engagement data behind every follow-up.
Keep count of who views your transfer
Journalists, producers, and media professionals routinely share footage, photo packages, press releases, and audio files under tight deadlines, and a delivered confirmation is rarely enough. WeTransfer captures both in-browser preview activity and download events separately for each transfer, giving your team two distinct visibility signals directly in the Transfers panel. Turn on download tracking before you send, and every access event is tied to a verified email address and an exact timestamp, so you know precisely when a picture desk opened your gallery or when a broadcaster pulled down your video package. For embargoed content, exclusive footage, or pre-publication materials, restricted access lets you lock a transfer to a named list of email addresses, ensuring sensitive work reaches only the contacts you specify. Whether you're delivering 4K rushes, raw audio, layered graphics, or high-resolution stills, everything arrives without compression or quality loss, exactly as it left your hands.
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FAQs
All your questions answered.
Yes. WeTransfer records preview events and download events separately, so you can see in your Transfers panel whether a recipient opened your files for a quick look in-browser or actually pulled them down to their machine. This distinction is particularly useful in media workflows where an editor might preview a photo set before deciding which images to download. Both signals appear in the transfer details view alongside timestamps.
Before clicking Transfer, open the transfer settings and enable the download tracking option. Once active, every recipient who accesses your transfer will be prompted to verify their email address, and their name, email, and the exact time of access will appear in your transfer's activity log. You can do this for individual transfers without any additional setup, so it fits easily into a deadline-driven dispatch process.
Yes. When download tracking is enabled, each recipient's access is logged individually, tied to their verified email address. So if you send a press release package or a broadcast-ready cut to five different newsrooms, you'll see a separate timestamped entry for each person who opened or downloaded the transfer, rather than a single aggregate count. This makes follow-up calls with specific contacts much more straightforward.
Yes. Restricted access lets you specify a list of email addresses before sending, and only people on that list can open the transfer after verifying their identity. Anyone else who gets hold of the link simply won't be able to access the files. This is well suited to embargoed press materials, pre-release footage, or any media asset where controlling distribution before publication is critical. You can manage and update the access list from the transfer details page after sending.
WeTransfer supports the file types central to news and media production: high-resolution JPEGs and RAW formats, MP4 and MOV video including 4K footage, MP3 and WAV audio, PDFs, and common design and Office formats. Files are never re-encoded or compressed by WeTransfer, so a 4K video clip or a RAW photo arrives exactly as you shot and exported it. Recipients can preview images, video, audio, and PDFs directly in the browser before downloading, which speeds up editorial review without any quality trade-off.