YouTube stories are now available
Of course, as long as you have a channel with more than 10,000 subscribers And YouTube has given carte blanche to the creators of certain popularity to start using this format that is too reminiscent of Instagram. It is not something new, since the platform has been testing it since last year, but with an even smaller group of users. Now it is open to all those with enough subscriber volume, so get used to seeing small content around much more natural and direct videos.YouTube stories are here to stay.
If you are a creator with more than 10k followers on your YouTube channel, you only have to use the mobile application of the platform to create new ephemeral content. Open the option to record video and select Stories. This gives you the opportunity to record short videos, about 15 seconds, with the same format as Instagram Stories. That is, you press the record button and share what you want to say.
The good thing is that, like on Instagram, there are also tools to decorate these YouTube stories We are talking about stickers of all kinds to give emphasis and color to short videos. Or labels to write anything. There are also filters to give a special tone to the video before publishing it. Also, if you find it necessary, you can mute it or do some kind of editing by trimming its length.
From YouTube they treat these Stories as additional content to the videos of the channel that you publish. That is, you can use them to show part of the video production, like a makin of, or to do promotion and clarifications after the fact. And the idea is to maintain the conversation with followers beyond the videos or their comments section.
In fact, YouTube stories have their own comments section. During the time that these contents remain active , only one week, it is possible to comment and create a community about it. There are even like or dislike options, as well as heart, to apply to the different cross comments in this section. You can even take advantage of YouTube's moderation tools in this Stories comments section so nothing gets out of hand.And be careful because it is possible to reply to these comments directly with a photo or video.
YouTube thus joins the fashion of the stories that Snapchat released and that Instagram copied and made fashionable. It remains to be seen if the community of YouTube users and creators uses this resource to create more content and a community around the videos themselves.
