Notify uploaders via email when their WordPress.tv video is accepted

[rollybueno]

Currently, uploaders who submit videos to WordPress.tv receive no notification when their video is approved and published. This can lead to uncertainty about the status of their submission.

Proposed Enhancement:
Introduce an automated notification system that sends an email to the uploader once their video is approved and published. The email should include:

• Confirmation of approval
• A link to the published video
• Optionally, thanks and guidelines for sharing

Benefits:

• Improves communication and transparency with contributors
• Encourages engagement and sharing of published content
• Aligns with WordPress’s community values by acknowledging contributions

[rollybueno]

For this to happen, the upload form should have additional fields:

• Optin/Optout option: Notify me when my video is approved
• Email: Email field

I'm not quite sure how possible to pull email address through WP.org profile data, so having an email field is better option

[mkrndmane]

Thanks for opening this ticket, @rollybueno! 🙌

Just wanted to share that I had also suggested this idea earlier and I'm really happy to see it moving forward. I recently uploaded a meetup video that got approved, but I didn’t receive any notification about the status change. Having a notification system for contributors when their video status changes—whether it's approved, needs edits, or is rejected—would really improve the contributor experience.

Looking forward to seeing this feature implemented! 😊

[mkrndmane]

@rollybueno There's no need to fetch the email from the wp.org profile, as the email field is already present during the upload process. When you upload a video to WordPress.tv, it asks for your email if you're not logged in. If you're logged in, it uses the email from your WordPress.com profile.

Replying to rollybueno:

For this to happen, the upload form should have additional fields:

• Optin/Optout option: Notify me when my video is approved
• Email: Email field

I'm not quite sure how possible to pull email address through WP.org profile data, so having an email field is better option

[rollybueno]

Got it. I justc checked on incognito and we do have email address field there

Replying to mkrndmane:

@rollybueno There's no need to fetch the email from the wp.org profile, as the email field is already present during the upload process. When you upload a video to WordPress.tv, it asks for your email if you're not logged in. If you're logged in, it uses the email from your WordPress.com profile.

Replying to rollybueno:

For this to happen, the upload form should have additional fields:

• Optin/Optout option: Notify me when my video is approved
• Email: Email field

I'm not quite sure how possible to pull email address through WP.org profile data, so having an email field is better option

[jhimross]

If it can also be integrated with the WordPress.com notification system, that would be awesome. Ideally, it could work with the default WordPress.com email notifications as well.