diff --git a/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/plugins/videojs-watchman/plugin.js b/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/plugins/videojs-watchman/plugin.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b3ddbb753
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/plugins/videojs-watchman/plugin.js
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+// Created by xander on 7/10/2021
+import videojs from 'video.js';
+const VERSION = '0.0.1';
+
+const watchmanEndpoint = 'https://watchman.na-backend.dev.odysee.com';
+
+let previousEventTime = Date.now();
+
+/* Watchman */
+function createWatchmanData(
+  url,
+  duration,
+  position,
+  relPosition,
+  rebufCount,
+  rebufDuration,
+  format,
+  player,
+  userId,
+  device
+) {
+  return {
+    url: url,
+    duration: duration,
+    rel_position: relPosition,
+    rebuf_count: rebufCount,
+    rebuf_duration: rebufDuration,
+    format: format,
+    player: player,
+    user_id: userId,
+    device: device,
+  };
+}
+
+function sendWatchmanData(watchmanData) {
+  const requestOptions = {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }, // application/json
+    body: JSON.stringify(watchmanData),
+  };
+
+  try {
+    fetch(watchmanEndpoint, requestOptions)
+      .then((response) => response.json())
+      .then((data) => {
+        // Response data
+      });
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Response error
+  }
+}
+
+// Plugin default options
+const defaults = {
+  endpoint: watchmanEndpoint,
+  reportRate: 15,
+  videoUrl: null,
+  userId: 0,
+  debug: false,
+};
+
+const Component = videojs.getComponent('Component');
+const registerPlugin = videojs.registerPlugin || videojs.plugin;
+
+class WatchmanPlugin extends Component {
+  constructor(player, options) {
+    super(player, options);
+
+    // Plugin started
+    if (options.debug) {
+      this.log(`Created watchman plugin for: videoUrl:${options.videoUrl}, userId:${options.userId}`);
+    }
+
+    // Plugin variables
+    this.player = player;
+    this.loadedAt = Date.now();
+    this.watchmanIntervalId = null;
+    this.bufferEventData = [];
+    this.poweredBy = '';
+
+    // Plugin event listeners
+    player.on('tracking:firstplay', (event, data) => this.onTrackingFirstPlay(event, data));
+    player.on('tracking:buffered', (event, data) => this.onTrackingBuffered(event, data));
+
+    // Event trigger to send recsys event
+    player.on('dispose', (event) => this.onDispose(event));
+  }
+
+  sendWatchmanData() {
+    const processedData = this.bufferEventData.reduce(
+      (accumulator, current) => {
+        // Always update with the most current player x-powered-by header
+        if (current.hasOwnProperty('playerPoweredBy') && current.playerPoweredBy) {
+          this.poweredBy = current.playerPoweredBy;
+        }
+
+        return {
+          secondsToLoad: accumulator.secondsToLoad + current.secondsToLoad,
+          bufferCount: accumulator.bufferCount + current.bufferCount,
+        };
+      },
+      {
+        secondsToLoad: 0,
+        bufferCount: 0,
+      }
+    );
+
+    const timeSinceLastEvent = Date.now() - previousEventTime;
+    previousEventTime = Date.now();
+
+    const currentTime = this.player.currentTime();
+    const totalTime = this.player.duration();
+
+    const event = createWatchmanData(
+      this.options_.videoUrl,
+      timeSinceLastEvent,
+      currentTime,
+      currentTime / totalTime,
+      processedData.bufferCount,
+      processedData.secondsToLoad * 1000,
+      this.player.currentSource().type,
+      this.poweredBy,
+      this.options_.userId,
+      navigator.userAgent
+    );
+
+    if (this.options_.debug) {
+      console.log('[watchman] Data Payload', event);
+    }
+
+    sendWatchmanData(event);
+  }
+
+  onTrackingFirstPlay(event, data) {
+    // data attr: secondsToLoad
+    if (this.options_.debug) {
+      console.log(`[watchman] First Play Data:`, data);
+    }
+
+    // Start analytics interval here
+    this.watchmanIntervalId = setInterval(() => this.onWatchmanInterval(), this.options_.reportRate * 1000);
+  }
+
+  onTrackingBuffered(event, data) {
+    const duration = this.player.duration();
+
+    const reportData = {
+      ...data,
+      relativePosition: data.currentTime / duration,
+    };
+
+    // data attr: currentTime, readyState, secondsToLoad, bufferCount
+    if (this.options_.debug) {
+      console.log(`[watchman] Buffer Data:`, reportData);
+    }
+
+    this.bufferEventData.push(data);
+  }
+
+  onWatchmanInterval() {
+    // don't report while player is paused
+    if (this.player.paused()) return;
+
+    // process and send watchman data here
+    if (this.options_.debug) {
+      console.log('[watchman] interval', this.bufferEventData);
+    }
+
+    this.sendWatchmanData();
+
+    // clear processed data
+    this.bufferEventData = [];
+  }
+
+  onDispose(event) {
+    // Stop analytics interval
+    clearInterval(this.watchmanIntervalId);
+  }
+
+  log(...args) {
+    if (this.options_.debug) {
+      console.log(`[watchman] Debug:`, JSON.stringify(args));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+videojs.registerComponent('watchman', WatchmanPlugin);
+
+const onPlayerReady = (player, options) => {
+  player.recsys = new WatchmanPlugin(player, options);
+};
+
+/**
+ * Initialize the plugin.
+ *
+ * @function plugin
+ * @param    {Object} [options={}]
+ */
+const plugin = function (options) {
+  this.ready(() => {
+    onPlayerReady(this, videojs.mergeOptions(defaults, options));
+  });
+};
+
+plugin.VERSION = VERSION;
+
+registerPlugin('watchman', plugin);
+
+export default plugin;
diff --git a/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/videojs.jsx b/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/videojs.jsx
index 8195a23ae..a4800c3fb 100644
--- a/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/videojs.jsx
+++ b/ui/component/viewers/videoViewer/internal/videojs.jsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import * as OVERLAY from './overlays';
 import './plugins/videojs-mobile-ui/plugin';
 import hlsQualitySelector from './plugins/videojs-hls-quality-selector/plugin';
 import recsys from './plugins/videojs-recsys/plugin';
+import './plugins/videojs-watchman/plugin';
 import qualityLevels from 'videojs-contrib-quality-levels';
 import isUserTyping from 'util/detect-typing';
 // import './plugins/videojs-aniview/plugin';
@@ -570,6 +571,13 @@ export default React.memo<Props>(function VideoJs(props: Props) {
         userId: userId,
       });
 
+      player.watchman({
+        reportRate: 15,
+        videoUrl: claimId,
+        userId: userId,
+        debug: true,
+      });
+
       // set playsinline for mobile
       // TODO: make this better
       player.children_[0].setAttribute('playsinline', '');