Blizzard Watch needs your help

Blizzard Watch is here because of your support — literally! Your generosity allowed us to launch this site in 2015, and your continuing support over the years has kept the site going, letting us keep the servers online and pay our staff. But that may not be the case for much longer.

Our Patreon support is at its lowest level to date at just $3,121/month (before fees), and while ad revenue has allowed us to keep the site online, over the summer we lost our ad partner — which is why you may have seen an oddball mix of advertising on the site lately. Unfortunately, these ads pay significantly less and have left the site operating at a loss. 

To turn things around, we’re currently searching for new ad partners and investigating ads for our podcasts, and we’ve made cutbacks to allow the site to operate on a more limited budget. We have hopes we’ll be successful, but with the overall ad market softening it’s hard to say how successful we’ll be. 

Please consider increasing your monthly subscription tier so we can bring our Patreon up to $5,000/month and, with the help of increased ad revenue, keep the site running as it has been. And if we surpass our $5k goal, the extra support will go into improving the site. We’re already working to secure better ads, but your support will help us hit our goal. We know that’s a huge number, which is why we hope you’l help us out.

Every dollar helps, and we have some great benefits at higher tiers:

• For $3/month: Early access to all of our podcasts. You’ll get the Blizzard Watch podcast (with bonus pre-show content), Tavern Watch podcast, and the Lore Watch podcast the day after they’re recorded.
• For $5/month: In addition to podcast benefits, you can also read the site ad-free. All the content, none of the ads!
• For $10/month: In addition to previous benefits, you also get access to view a staff-only chat channel on Discord for a behind-the-scenes look at how we make content, as well as a supporter-only Discord channel to chat with our writers.

And if you want to help support the site regardless of benefits, we also have a $25/month and $50/month tier.

Regardless of how things go, we're glad you’re all here on this crazy internet ride with us. Thanks for reading.