Almost every platform I have ever used to earn online slowly loses its potential. You don’t notice it at first. Then one day you realize you are working harder for less money. The system changes. The opportunities shrink. In order to keep earning, you have to expand and figure out new methods. Video watching is a perfect example of how earning potential declines over time.

Watch-to-Earn was one of the early ways to earn online. Perk TV was a pioneer. People ran massive phone farms. Devices stacked on tables, shelves, chairs. Each device could earn a dollar or two a day without much effort. You could scale up and make a few dollars per device while barely touching them. Phone farming was huge between 2014 and 2018. Those were the glory days. People shared pictures online of massive setups. Some farms had dozens of devices running simultaneously. The money was real and consistent.



Then it started to fade. Advertisers began blocking users in late 2018. It wasn’t Perk banning accounts. The third party advertisement networks that Perk TV worked with started limiting views. Money disappeared gradually. Until Perk entirely discontinued services in 2019. Perk officially announced that all of their applications would be shut down on December 1, 2019.



When Perk TV went on the decline, people looked for alternatives. Swagbucks TV and Hideout TV were two platforms that emerged. It was the same autoplay video idea, but with lower earnings potential and a cap on devices. Hideout TV appeared around 2018 and worked well for a while. Users could earn a dollar a day per device or more. Typical earnings were $5 to $25 per week. It was far less than what Perk had offered, but still something. The model was familiar: passive video streaming with ads.

Then the decline continued. Swagbucks Watch ended completely in 2022. Loot.tv rebranded as Cheddar.tv around 2021–2022. Users have had a mixed experience with earnings since then. HyprMX was a popular ad network in the US that also stopped running videos.



By 2023, Hideout TV had slowed down a lot and had almost no ads for European users. Some people ran videos for twelve hours straight and earned nothing. Later that year, it rebranded as PixelPoint TV with the same outdated playlists. The money didn't improve overall, but occasionally pays well during holidays. Some ran hundreds of videos without receiving points though. The Firestick app that used to work under the Hideout TV brand no longer appears to give points under Pixel Point TV brand.

WeAre8 still exists but shifted to more of a luck-based payout system. My last WeAre8 payment was in January 2025. Reel Rush paid me $10 in February 2025, but has since disappeared entirely. MMWatch which emerged as a top platform in 2024, has since rebranded to Watch-More and Tube-US. Cheddar TV is working in late 2025, but you will need to remake playlists in order to maximize efficiency. TrueX videos on Prodege sites still work for some people. Milk the opportunity while you can.



Even after all the disruptions, I still earn from watching videos in 2025. But I have to run three or four platforms just to make what one device could do years ago. The grind hasn’t changed. The money has declined a lot. Almost every platform I’ve touched slowly eats away your earning potential. 

Ads get blocked, points get harder to track, platforms rebrand or entirely vanish. You have to adapt, expand, try new methods. Watching videos on multiple platforms. Stacking devices. Logging in constantly. Attention checks. It is not so effortless anymore. It's work. People keep doing it because even a little money is still money.

That’s Watch-to-Earn. And that is online earning in general. The potential shrinks and keeps declining over time. The grind stays persistent. You can still earn online and earn from watching videos headed into 2026. Keep finding new ways to make money online and don't rely on any one method as a crutch. I share tons of fresh guides about earning online over on my subreddit. Thanks for your tips as earnings fade here on Publish0x too. I truly appreciate you reading. 


Did you use Perk TV or Hideout TV? Still phone farming into 2026?

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