Snapchat started at Facebook followed and Instagram made this super popular
you might already know what I'm about to talk about but you might not but I'm
super excited about this new update and it's all about YouTube stories they're
adding a new feature for youtubers and it's going to be super awesome for
people like me so let's go into that in today's digital marketing news today
update
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so about a year ago YouTube actually started testing their own stories
feature for their platform and it's really cool especially for people like
me because it gives us a way to do more of a short form engagement with our
communities and with our audiences previously you could only upload either
a really long form video or do some sort of live video but it didn't give you a
way to send it just kind of a short update to somebody and this is why
YouTube stories is so exciting for people like me so let's go into that
feature and show you guys how to use it really quickly but if you're looking to
get more views on YouTube then stay tuned to the end of the video where I'll
give you a couple secrets and the training you'll want to watch about
getting more views for your YouTube channel so let's go ahead and take a
look at the stories feature but before we do I want to go ahead and you know
kind of give you guys a little prerequisite that you have to have in
place before you can actually use the stories feature you have to have a
minimum of 10,000 subscribers on your channel that's who they're letting beta
test this feature so if you don't have 10,000 you can't but if you're wanting
to get to 10,000 subscribers or if you're thinking about starting a channel
and want to get there very quickly then you're going to want to check out this
video on starting a YouTube channel and all of the methods that we use basically
to grow very very quickly have been included in this video so check that out
oh and YouTube also said that it might take up to four weeks for stories to
start appearing that that feature to start appearing right after you get
10,000 subscribers really so if you do get to 10,000 just be a little patient
sometimes it does take a little bit for the feature to update and then they'll
push it out to you oh and one last thing it can only be accessed through the
mobile app because you can't do a story through desktop that's still kind of
weird right so you have to actually be on your phone using the app like you can
see we are right here so just to show you guys it's pretty much the exact same
thing will put us up behind scram do you guys think that these are
going so you guys see it's got the exact same thing let me turn this down a
little bit but you don't mind the audio I know it's delayed that's actually
playing on my phone and not on the computer so there is a little bit of a
delay there but I just wanted to show you guys the feature what it was and
then kind of where it's placed so you do actually have to go down to the
subscription section you can see right down here on our screen we're in the
subscription section of the app so if you want to see stories on YouTube from
other youtubers you can go there and you'll see it at the very top to create
a story all you actually have to do is when you're logged into your mobile app
you have to be logged in you can see we're logged in right there we'll click
this little icon right here and down here there's now an option to post a
story so we can click the story and it's gonna pull up the camera and you guys
can see right here hey yeah we're actually creating this video right now
and I could shoot this and I could even add stickers or some sort of filter if I
wanted so like we can take this picture but okay we can take that picture and
now we can add stickers if we want like sneak-peek ooh yeah and it just is
another way for youtubers to be able to engage with their audience right and it
makes it short form which is something that YouTube again previously didn't
have so for us youtubers again this is a big deal this is gonna be something that
you want to definitely incorporate into your strategy because of the fact that
it's going to make it that much easier for you to really engage with your
followers and make sure that they stick around for a long time
so cool question guys do you think that YouTube stories will be as popular as
snapchat Instagram or Facebook stories really we'll just go with Instagram and
snapchat because Facebook stories really is nobody really uses it to be honest
but snapchat and Instagram stories do you think YouTube stories will compare
if so right yes or no right below this video because I would like to know what
you think some other cool things are just like in snapchat or Instagram
they're actually adding these really cool augmented reality type stickers or
really just ways for people to engage so these stickers give you the ability to
ask questions or to have your audience root rather ask you questions to give
their feedback or their opinion about a specific topic or something that you may
have covered on your channel so again this story feature to me is super super
big and to anybody else that's out there on YouTube and trying to build a channel
this is gonna be big for you guys as well and what's really cool is local
businesses didn't really have a reason get on YouTube as much previously but
once they roll this stories feature out to smaller channels it's gonna be a
really cool tool and really enticing to see what happens with small businesses
and using YouTube in the future so I'm super excited for this feature I'm sure
you guys are too but time will only tell from here so that's it for today's
digital marketing news today update but since you stayed until the end all you
have to do if you want to figure out how to start your YouTube channel and do it
the right way in 2019 check out this video in the top right hand corner we
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