5 Things WWE Network Needs To Do Better In 2020

Before this year's refresh, one of the ways WWE provided to help filter through the sheer volume of their content was a feature called Collections. If you're a recent subscriber, these were collections of matches and small intro videos that gave the highlights of storylines or looked at the best matches from a certain wrestler.

While limited in vision and scope (there were two separate Collections dedicated to the Mr McMahon versus Stone Cold feud), the idea was the very early promise of the Network; all those old stories you remember from your childhood could be picked up and followed in one place. And, while that's still true simply from the back catalogue, there's a lot of Katie Vick and Isaac Yankem level storylines in there too. What users need is a way to sort through all that, and that's where a return to Collections comes in.

Timestamp bookmarks are now a feature on the new builds of the Network, allowing users to skip directly to segments or matches within a show. Collections could easily build on that format, using these bookmarks on videos throughout the library to create both start and endpoints that separate out every segment of the show. These are then categorised by every wrestler involved and every storyline that goes forward in that segment. Collections would then simply take the user to a chronologically ordered playlist of the segments that were tagged with whatever storyline or wrestler's career they're exploring, allowing subscribers to follow from start to finish.

This is Collections taken to the next level, and the system would make it simple to feature playlists on the front page of the Network, featuring whatever flavour of the month or callback the WWE desires. Even PPV landing pages, before and after the show, could feature lead-in playlists that show the stories so far. Maybe that way David Otunga would have known who Bray Wyatt's lost family are on the TLC Kickoff Show.