YouTube’s trying to higher incorporate its text-based social engagement component, with a brand new Group Posts feed for channels within the cell app.

As defined by YouTube:

“We’ve heard that YouTube customers are searching for extra methods to search out Group posts from creators, so we’re experimenting with a “posts-only” feed on the House tab on cell units. In case you’re within the experiment, you may even see a “View all” button on single Group posts on House, which you’ll be able to faucet to view extra posts from channels you’ve engaged with previously or posts that we expect you could like.”

So it’s primarily constructing a Twitter-like textual content replace feed into YouTube, with posts from channels that you just observe, and channels you would possibly like, built-in right into a devoted updates stream.

Which may very well be an attention-grabbing engagement component, and one other manner for channel managers to maintain their viewers knowledgeable of supplemental updates, except for simply their uploads.

YouTube’s been working to make Group Posts a much bigger a part of neighborhood engagement, by including polls, quizzes (obtainable on Android, coming to iOS quickly), disappearing updates, and extra. YouTube additionally lowered the thresholds for qualification for Group Notes again in Could, with all channel managers now ready to make use of the characteristic.

The brand new devoted notes tab provides one other consideration, which might make it a extra beneficial technique of outreach and consciousness within the app.  

YouTube says that it’s testing its new Group Notes cell feed with “a small group of customers” on each Android and iOS.