YouTube begins testing a quiz characteristic for group posts • TechCrunch

YouTube is experimenting with a brand new characteristic that permits creators so as to add quizzes to their group posts — the social media-style posts for channels which have not less than 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is just accessible to a small variety of creators.

The main points have been first revealed in a brand new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider channel, the place the corporate routinely shares YouTube product updates with creators, solutions questions, and shares what experiments and assessments it has within the works.

Within the newest video, the corporate defined how the quiz characteristic could possibly be helpful for creators, particularly instructional channels that need to assist their followers study. At current, YouTube stated the check was underway with a small variety of creators and would look to achieve suggestions earlier than additional increasing entry to the characteristic.

As YouTube tries to tackle TikTok and Instagram to be the highest platform for creators, the corporate’s new quiz submit characteristic will compete towards TikTok’s Q&A characteristic, which launched final 12 months, and the quiz sticker for Instagram tales.

YouTube’s quiz characteristic could possibly be an important device for creators who need to seize the eye of their followers and immediate them to interact deeper with posts.

 

The corporate additionally stated it’s experimenting with a photograph enhancing device which can now come to the YouTube app on iOS gadgets after earlier assessments on Android. The device permits creators so as to add filters, textual content, and stickers to pictures they share on group posts. The device had been accessible on Android gadgets for just a few months, so the broader rollout appears promising for the characteristic’s progress.

A small group of randomly chosen creators could have entry to the picture enhancing characteristic, YouTube says.

YouTube this 12 months has been testing a variety of recent options for creators, comparable to a “Promotions” tab inside YouTube Studio that makes it simpler for creators to purchase advertisements, a co-streaming characteristic, and procuring options on YouTube Shorts.

Creator Insider additionally added in its latest video that Shorts content material is now accessible on 2019 and past Sensible TVs and sport consoles. The brand new Shorts-watching characteristic started rolling out earlier this month.

As beforehand introduced, creators may also be capable of use 15 to 60 seconds from audio tracks within the YouTube Shorts library.