See exactly who's viewed your shared media files
WeTransfer shows a preview count on every transfer the moment it goes out. For newsrooms and media teams that need the full picture, enabling access control surfaces a per-recipient log of who opened your files and exactly when they did it.
Keep count of who views your transfer
In news and media, timing is everything. Knowing whether an editor, source, or distribution partner has actually opened your footage package, press kit, or pitch deck tells you when to follow up and when to hold off. WeTransfer records preview activity on every transfer automatically, so you always have a baseline engagement signal without touching any settings. When a raw count is not enough, switching a transfer to tracked or restricted mode gives you a named, timestamped record for each recipient who opened it. Download tracking is available as a separate layer, so you can see clearly who saved a copy of your files versus who only browsed them.
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FAQs
All your questions answered.
Every transfer you send through WeTransfer automatically displays a preview count in your account, showing how many times your files have been opened. For media professionals who need more than a number, enabling access control (tracked or restricted mode) produces a per-recipient log that lists each person who previewed the transfer and the exact time they did it.
No setup is required for basic view counts. WeTransfer records and displays a running preview total on every transfer by default, the moment it goes out. If you want to see individual recipient activity, you enable tracked or restricted access before sending, and the log builds automatically from there.
Recipients can preview images, video, audio, and PDFs directly in the browser without downloading anything first. That means a news editor can review raw footage, a photo editor can browse a press shoot, or a producer can skim a PDF brief, all before pulling the files down. Any file previewed this way still registers in your view tracking data.
Yes. View tracking captures every time someone opens and previews a transfer, while download tracking only logs when someone actually saves the files to their device. For media workflows, the two together tell a complete story: a recipient who previewed your footage package but never downloaded it may need a follow-up, whereas one who downloaded immediately almost certainly got what they needed.
Yes. You can lock any transfer to a specific email address or a list of email addresses using the restricted access setting. Only recipients whose addresses you've listed can open the transfer at all, and you get a log of who accessed it and when. For embargoed materials, pre-publication assets, or anything distributed on a need-to-know basis, this gives you both control and a clear audit trail.