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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.
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.
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Are they going to bring back video replies?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
They could call it Google Plus!