You Will Now See “Stories” on YouTube As Well

YouTube has announced that it has started testing a new feature called 'Reels' that is like to that of 'Stories' on Snapchat and Instagram, which ways YouTubers will now be able to share content without having to publish total-fledged videos. However, unlike those two platforms, content uploaded as role of Reels will remain on the platform, and not expire later on any length of time unless the uploader wants them to.

Creators will be able to have multiple Reels — each with its ain prepare of brusk-duration videos of up to 30 seconds. According to YouTube'due south Senior Product Manager, Roy Livne, "Nosotros're also bringing creator-focused features like linking to YouTube videos and YouTube-y stickers".

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The rollout of 'Reels' is actually part of a bigger modify for YouTube from the bespeak of view of creators. The company has just expanded 'Community' to include every YouTuber with 10,000 subscribers and higher up. The feature was originally rolled out late last twelvemonth strictly on an invite-only basis, with John & Hank Green, AsapSCIENCE, The Game Theorists, Karmin, The Primal of Crawly and Vidya Vox being some of the popular channels to accept been invited to join the program. YouTube had already promised to curlicue out the program to more creators in the future, and is now finally rolling out new features and functions as well as bringing in more users to their fold.

YouTube is also making a slight modify to the viewers' Domicile Feed to assist make content more discoverable. As part of the process, they volition now starting time seeing Community feeds from those YouTubers whose channels they often 'engage with', irrespective of whether they are subscribers to the channel or not. YouTube also says it has optimized its notification system to make sure that fans are eligible to receive them without getting overwhelmed with notifications for every new Community mail.