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YouTube Plans To Bring Photos, Polls, and Text To Its Video Service (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: YouTube is developing a feature internally called Backstage where users can share photos, polls, links, text posts, and videos with their subscribers. Backstage is expected to launch by the end of the year, possibly this fall, on mobile and desktop, initially with select popular YouTube accounts and with limited features, VentureBeat has learned. Akin to a Facebook Timeline or Twitter profile, Backstage will live alongside the Home and Videos tabs within individual YouTube channels. Posts shared to Backstage will appear in reverse chronological order, and, crucially, will also appear in subscribers' feeds and notifications, making them highly visible to fans. While Backstage is expected to introduce entirely new types of content to YouTube, including tweet-like text posts and topical polls, it also presents new opportunities for video sharing. Backstage will eventually enable users to share both traditional YouTube videos and Backstage-only videos, possibly creating an opportunity for more intimate, or even ephemeral, video sharing between YouTubers and their fans.
Kinetic Typography FTW
These days it seems like every service is very busy trying to be every other service, and it only winds up hurting their primary product. Instagram wants to be Snapchat (or is it vice versa) with "Stories," Facebook wants to be a messenger program, Twitter wants to be Vine so they added short videos, Firefox wants to be Chrome, and now YouTube wants to be Reddit. Enough with the fucking e-penis-envy already. Make your product and make it well.
"If there was a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try" ~lucm
Are they going to bring back video replies?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
gotta go
All they need to do is stop trying to ram that boring and stupid Casey Neistat asshole down our throats and the site will be perfect. (Well, that and putting a stop to the "Top 10..." and "N Things That..." recommended list exploits - which is how WatchMojo got to where it is.)
They can't even get the comments in chronological order and they auto play videos. Now they're adding more crap?
a 'backstage'...
and dell used ____'stage' for preinstalled multimedia storage/library applications (made by cyberlink, et al).
So Youtube is going to turn into some bastardized version of Facebook and Instagram? Yippee, I can hardly wait to stop going there.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Do one thing and one thing better than anyone else.
They could call it Google Plus!
Google finally realized that their social site is youtube. Gz to them for smelling the coffee... albeit rather late lol...
I use Youtube a lot. I have unsubscribed to certain Youtubers because they release too many low quality videos mixed in with their good ones. Jim Sterling is an example, Jimquisition videos are good, most of his others are filler where he scrapes the bottom of Steam's basement. I do not need all that flooding my subscription feed so I check his videos just once a week as an unsubscribed visitor.
I also do not subscribe to youtuber twitters because those tend to be mostly filled with more low quality garbage--I value the content in high quality videos and that's it, that is all I want in my feed. I might check a twitter directly just to find out when someone is streaming next but very rarely is there anything else worth my attention in there.
If this change results in feed spam that subscribers do not have fine grained control over (like a checkbox to enforce 'only videos') then I expect to be unsubscribing from a number of youtubers.
What Youtube really needs is an option for channels to have their own (volunteer) chat moderators to delete and ban the filth that typically permeates most channels. So many Youtubers get deluged with juvenile sexist remarks and other crap that it causes many people to turn off comments or never bother to read them at all. So many popular people on Youtube won't even show their parent's what they do simply because they don't want them to see the horrible comments the channel fills with.