Desktop Watch

Three and a half types of desktop videos are available in Canada. (Any stray Americans who've wandered in may also want to check out Jun videos.)

The first type is the Watch playlists, which you can get to by clicking here or by clicking on the “Watch” button on the left sidebar of the home page. A playlist can contain anywhere from 8 videos to 22 videos and pay from 1 to 3 SB. Each playlist shows how long it is and how many SB it gives, leaving it up to you to figure out which ones give the best payout for your time.

On most Windows systems, videos will keep playing automatically, even moving on to the next playlist after finishing the current one. It will occasionally get stuck, though, and then you'll have to click on the next video to get it started again.

(On Linux and some Windows systems (usually older ones), every video will stick, and you'll always have to click on the next video to get it to move. I haven't tried Macs, so I don't know how they do.)

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The second type is ToolbarTV. You can access this through the SwagButton browser extension, but it's easier to use https://toolbartv.swagbucks.com/.

These are pretty variable: Swagbucks often changes which channels are available, and sometimes changes the number of videos needed for a payout and the size of the payout. Some channels will have short videos, some will have long videos, and some will be mostly short videos but with a 30-minute one thrown in the middle to see if you're paying enough attention to skip it.

If there are many channels, don't overdo them: Swagbucks tends not to like it if you play these videos more than a few hours a day. (Most days, though, there won't be enough videos available for that to become a problem.)

After finishing every video in a channel, it will move on to the next channel automatically. After finishing the last channel, it will continue to play extra videos of that channel, but these videos won't provide credit.

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The third type is Hideout. For more on Hideout, see the Discover Offers section of the guide.

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The “and a half” type is nCrave. Usually there aren't any available in Canada, but every so often they turn up.

In most cases, these are not technically videos, but rather articles. They move on after 30 seconds, though, so it amounts to the same thing.

By default, an nCrave will need to be manually moved on to the next article. Some nCraves will have a symbol on them, indicating the playlist moves forward automatically.

Roughly, each playlist is 20 - 40 minutes long and gives 1 - 3 SB. (I have occasionally seen ones that give 10 SB, but those are always the kind where you have to click to progress.)

Unlike other videos, nCraves aren't satisfied by being left in a background window: you must have the nCrave as your displayed tab for it to credit.