YouTube’s expanding access to its Community Posts feature, with all creators now in a position to activate the choice, offering one other means to work together together with your YouTube viewers.
Group Posts stay in your YouTube channel, and supply a text-based solution to hold your subscribers knowledgeable of updates and notes – much like different social media apps.
The choice was initially solely accessible to channels with over 1,000 subscribers, however from this week, all YouTube channel managers will be capable to activate Group Posts by way of the Superior Options tab within the app.
As per YouTube:
“You possibly can join superior options by going to Studio > Settings > Channel > Characteristic eligibility. As soon as there, decide into superior options, or you may faucet the plus signal within the YouTube app, faucet create a submit, and in case you do not but have entry to superior options you may be prompted to confirm at this level.”
YouTube’s added a spread of options to Group Posts over the previous 12 months, together with polls, quizzes (accessible on Android, coming to iOS quickly), disappearing updates, and extra. As famous, that gives extra methods to have interaction together with your YouTube group, and it may very well be a invaluable complement in constructing your presence within the app.
Seemingly value an experiment both means – in case you’re not seeing the choice to activate Group Posts in your model of YouTube or YouTube Studio, it will likely be coming quickly.
You possibly can study extra about Group Posts here.