YouTube Expands Entry to ‘Clips’ Video Highlights Possibility

YouTube has announced that each one creators will quickly have the ability to entry its ‘Clips’ possibility, which permits customers to pick and share a small portion of a video clip (as much as 60 seconds in size), which can then play on a loop instantly on the unique video’s watch web page.

YouTube first announced its initial test of Clips last January – right here’s a preview of how Clips works:

So it’s form of like a GIF, however probably not – but it surely does present one other approach to share a small phase of an extended clip throughout varied apps.

YouTube says that extra channels have been given entry to Clips over the previous few weeks, and by subsequent week, all channels may have the choice obtainable.

If a channel does have Clips entry, you’ll see this button under the video playback display screen.

It might be a useful approach to generate extra curiosity in your YouTube movies, by sharing small spotlight snippets to get folks . And with curiosity in brief video on the rise, it might additionally present a approach to add segments of your YouTube clips to be used in TikTok and IG Reels and Tales as effectively, when you needed to make use of them as a way to drive extra viewers to your web page.

On one other entrance, YouTube can be increasing put up picture polls to Android (beforehand solely obtainable on iOS), whereas it’s additionally expanding its Locations listings, which spotlight Google Maps data referring to cafes and eating places talked about in a video clip. YouTube says that these listings will quickly be included on extra movies, and can embody extra data varieties to focus on contextual information referring to clips. Creators can decide out of this growth in the event that they select.

You’ll be able to be taught extra about YouTube’s newest updates here.