---
title: "How do I watch assets?"
date: "2025-01-09T15:10:28+00:00"
summary:
image:
type: "page"
url: "/acquia-dam/how-do-i-watch-assets"
id: "107877dc-7744-44a4-8386-5cf49f06b236"
---

Watching assets allows you to keep an eye on the ones that are important to your work and be notified when updates are made to them. The [Alerts feature](What-are-the-available-features-and-their-permissions) must be enabled in order for you to watch assets. You can also watch assets in personal and global [collections](/acquia-dam/what-are-collections "What are collections?").  
  
Watch single assets by clicking the eye icon in [search results](/acquia-dam/what-will-i-see-search-results "What will I see in search results?"), [Quick View previews](/acquia-dam/what-details-can-i-see-quick-view "What details can I see in Quick View?"), or on the [Asset Details page](/acquia-dam/where-can-i-see-asset-details "Where can I see asset details?"). Click the eye icon to "unwatch" an asset you're watching.

![Select to watch a single asset from search results or the Asset Details page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/56dd9e1d-fe72-4ebd-9728-5032cec95525/web/ka0Pb0000006s5l00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005Lvkx.png)

Watch assets in personal and global collections from the [Collection Details page](/acquia-dam/how-do-i-see-collection-details "How do I see collection details?"). All current assets in the collection and assets added to the collection in the future will be watched.

![Select to watch a collection from the Collection Details page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/d31d9b8d-ea4c-42db-ad76-1943f12509a0/web/ka0Pb0000006s5l00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005Lvkw.png)

Alerts and email notifications
------------------------------

When you watch assets, you can be notified via an [alert and/or email](/acquia-dam/user-what-alerts-or-email-notifications-can-i-get "As a user, what alerts or email notifications can I get?") when versions, metadata, and release statuses are updated. Here's an example email for when a new version is added.  
  

![Example email for a watched asset with a new version added.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/ed1c8e03-2e32-4d79-a085-f0d6704f2c83/web/ka0Pb0000006s5l00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005Lvkz.png)

  
  
Alerts and email notification preferences can be set up and changed in your user profile. Track watched assets, expiring watched assets, or updated metadata for watched assets via alerts and emails.

![Select your notification preferences for watched assets in the general notifications preferences from your user settings.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/8a68f7ea-85ce-4214-a95e-1fbea63fde16/web/ka0Pb0000006s5l00N6g00000WDN1a0EM6g000005Lvky.png)

If you select to receive email, an email will be sent that includes the name of the asset, what's changed, and who made the change, along with a link to the [Asset Details page](/acquia-dam/where-can-i-see-asset-details "Where can I see asset details?") so you can see the asset. Learn more about email notification frequencies in this [support article](/acquia-dam/admin-what-alerts-or-email-notifications-can-i-get "As an admin, what alerts or email notifications can I get?").  
  
Alerts are represented by an eye icon in your user profile. When there's a watched asset alert, the number of watched assets with changes appears on the icon. Click the icon to see the type of update as well as a link to search results with the watched asset(s) that has been updated.