Published July 28, 2021
Andrew Hutchinson
Content and Social Media Manager
As TikTok continues to refine its live-streaming options, YouTube is also giving its live-stream tools more focus, with two new additions to help maximize engagement and awareness of live broadcasts within the app.
First off, YouTube s expanding its Premiere trailers option to upcoming live-streams, which will enable creators to add a short preview clip to the stream event page.
As explained by YouTube s Conor Kavanagh: Last year, we introduced Trailers which enable creators to add a 15-second to 3-minute clip to the upcoming or scheduled page of a Premiere. Now we re delighted to announce that trailers are now available for upcoming and scheduled live-streams.
Published July 14, 2021
Andrew Hutchinson
Content and Social Media Manager
YouTube is making automatic video chapters available for all uploaded clips, while it s also launching a new dark mode for YouTube Studio on desktop, which will no doubt please fans of these Goth versions of websites and apps.
First off, on video chapters - last November, YouTube launched an experiment which saw chapters automatically inserted into selected videos, using machine learning to identify relevant segments within each.
The option builds upon YouTube s manually inserted video chapters, which it launched to all creators last May, as a means to improve navigation to specific sections of video clips.