- YouTube's new Stories feature unlocks Instagram stories
like functionality for you on YouTube.
In this video we're gonna run through
everything that you need to know
with a complete YouTube Stories tutorial.
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So let's jump into it.
YouTube Stories feature is a super powerful tool,
unlocking Instagram stories like functionality
for your YouTube community
and it's now available for a lot of creators.
So here's what you need to know to get access
and how you can get the most out of it.
And let me know in the comments,
have you used Stories yet?
What are your thoughts?
Or do you watch anyone's stories?
So first off, what is it?
Well, yes, it's a complete rip off of Instagram stories.
Even the interface is laid out almost identically.
We've had access for quite a while now
and the feature set has changed quite a lot,
but it has settled down now
so much so that we've got a pretty good feel
for what it's all about.
They are clearly still building this out
because at one point, there was a really amazing feature
to be able to link to either your videos
or direct to someone else's videos,
a video that you've watched on your channel
directly from the stories itself.
They've since removed that,
so they asked to filling it out a little bit,
but at least now there is comment interaction
before you could ask a question,
there was no way for people to respond
and interact with you.
So they've got that functionality now.
Now in regards to the requirements to get access to stories,
at this point they've lowered it to 10,000 subscribers.
So you will need to have 10,000 subscribers
on your YouTube channel to unlock this feature.
And they said that once you hit 10,000,
to allow up to four weeks to have this feature enabled.
So we're gonna jump across to the phone now
and I'll show you how this works.
Now, it currently does work on iPhone and Android
and it's all driven through the YouTube App.
Okay, so this obviously is the YouTube App.
I'll show you first where you can view and see
all the stories and then I'll show you how to create them.
So they're normally here under subscriptions
down the bottom.
So if we tap on that, and they'll usually appear at the top.
So you can see here
we've got my name with a circle around it.
We've got Andrew Edwards
and we've got Guitar Zero here as well.
So there's three, from channels that I've subscribed to,
and as we go across the top here,
there are other channels across as well,
but none of them have that red ring around them.
So currently, it's suggesting only these three have stories.
Now if we press on my one here,
then this is a story I posted, it was like two days ago,
and you can see it's had 1,464 views down the bottom left.
There is six comments.
And if we tap on those,
and we can bring up the comments here.
And just like Instagram stories,
you can see at the top that there are two lines,
so there's two stories here and If I tap on the screen,
we'll be taken across to the newest one.
This is one I just posted it says 42 minutes ago.
Its currently only had eight views
and there aren't any comments yet.
Now, YouTube Stories, I'll just pause this for a second.
YouTube Stories, you can keep up for seven days
before they will remove themselves
or you can actually come in here,
and you can manually delete the story yourself.
Just with these three buttons down the bottom corner,
you can delete the clips whenever you like.
So if we go check out Andrew's now,
you can see he's got a lot more
across the top from three days.
If I tapped to go through them,
you can see is exactly the same as Instagram stories
in regards to how it actually works.
So we'll close out that now.
The other place you can go to view your stories
or someone else's stories is on their channel page.
So if we come up here and go to my channel,
then if we go across to the top here,
we can see stories and there is outages,
a great thumb now then, there's a story
that we posted a few days ago.
So on this page you'll have all your stories laid out
if you've got a heap of them there.
The other place you can find them
is again down under subscriptions.
When you're scrolling through your subscriptions,
they will show up from time to time
in between some of the recommended videos.
And of course, while I'm recording this,
then there aren't any showing up there that are suggested,
but they do show up in here as well.
And they can also randomly show up
on the video that you're watching.
So maybe if we go to Andrew's channel,
so over on Andrew's channel,
and again, you've got the stories at the top there,
you can see there's Andrew stories.
If we come back to home and we pick one of his videos,
see his most recent one,
we'll just pause it.
Then when you scroll down, you can sometimes see
the stories featured in here
as a suggestion for you to watch as well.
So back out of this now
and we'll go to where we can create a new one.
So we'll go home and then back up the top here
where you go to upload a video,
that little camera with a plus,
you press on that
and you'll have the ability to pick story.
So we'll select that now.
And then in Stories you can see me.
Hey everyone, hey Mom, hope you're doing well.
So this is the YouTube Stories interface.
You can see down the bottom here,
we've got the ability to add in clips that are on the phone.
So these are prerecorded videos or other videos
that I have saved on the phone.
I'll tap to get back out of that.
You've got filters, which is the next one across.
Now again, this is exactly the same as Instagram.
Once they matched my clothing there, looks good.
Yeah, so you've got a heap of filters
and those sorts of things in here as well.
So those are filters you think obviously
got your big record and photo buttons.
So just a tap on that, will take a photo
and if we back out of that discard changes
and holding down on the button again
is where you can record your videos.
Just the same as Instagram.
I'm gonna stop saying that because everything is.
So those are videos that we've just recorded
so I'll back out of that now, discard that.
Next one is to put the camera flash on or off
and to Obviously you spin the camera around.
And up in the top left hand corner
is where you can add on some color filters
to change up your shots.
So if we press on that, then down the bottom here,
you've a heap of different color grades
or color filters you can add.
So let's just pick auto,
because it's brightened up a little bit.
To adjust auto we'll tap it again
and we can see we get this slider and we get to choose,
if we want more of that auto setting or less.
Let's just cancel out of that,
and you can see that we've got some different ones
as we apply them across here.
With each one of them then you can set
how much of it is actually applied.
So let's pick something, it's got the red one
and tap it again and let's turn way down,
turns in a little bit more red.
We'll get boost it right up, so yeah,
look absolutely amazing.
How's that flare?
Okay, we'll cancel out of that, we'll go back across
and pick none, so there's no filters applied.
And the other thing you can do in here
is to tap on the screen itself.
So let's say a pick my shirt here and tap,
it's gonna to set the exposure and brighten up
or darken down the shot based on what I'm selecting.
So if I press my face now,
it's going to set the exposure based on that.
So let's pick the dark side of my face over here.
So it's brightened it up so that it's looking pretty good.
So the idea with that now is that as I move around
and bring in some more light,
it's actually not changing the exposure in the shot.
It's locked at that point.
So that is a pretty cool feature.
So we'll go ahead now and record a quick little video.
One, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10
I learned to count all by myself.
So I can see the video there is automatically
going to play back.
I do have my phone muted now
so that we're not gonna hear
that guy talking silly stuff.
But at the top here, what you do get the ability to do,
which isn't like any of these other platforms,
is to edit this down and make final edits to it.
So we've got a pair of scissors at the top.
If we press on that, then you can see
that we've got our video cycling through here.
We can grab these handles on either the left side
or the right side of the clip
and adjust the start or the end time of our videos.
So let's say if we want to start it a little bit later,
we could drag this in,
and maybe we want to finish a little bit earlier,
we could drag this in.
So if you have any mistakes
or you have some extra footage
that you've recorded at the start or the end,
then you can crop those out using this tool.
Next up you've also got the ability to add in music,
which is the next icon in at the top.
So if we press on that,
we can come down here to add music.
And in here, there is a heap of music
that YouTube lets you use in your stories here.
So these are the featured ones
you can sort it by genre or mood
or even music that is on your device.
It's back out of this.
You've then got your stickers,
we press the next one here.
You can do a geo location sticker, the same as Instagram,
If we tap and hold on that.
The interesting thing here is that it really gets down
to the address level
that Instagram doesn't do.
So to actually find the city or the state
that I live in, you've gotta type it in here.
Sunshine Coast, Queensland cool.
So there we go, Sunshine Coast.
Now just like the other apps
you can pinch to zoom and scale and rotate
with the actual stickers as well.
So let's put it down the bottom here.
Likewise with texts.
The next you want to cross, this will look really familiar
like some of the APP and let's type in text.
We can make it bigger or smaller.
With the slider on the side, let's choose a color.
Sky blue, done, we can bring that down here too.
Again, we can use multi-touch two fingers on the screen
to rotate to scale.
Let's put it here.
You can tell my graphic design skills
are really coming out now.
And the third one across the top
right hand corner there is the filters.
So we've got more filters that we can apply here
just by tapping on these.
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Haunt, that does look pretty damn scary
or a sketch, there you go.
So there's different ways that you can make
your stories look better.
So the part of this,
all you need to do is hit post,
but if you do wanna save it to your device first,
then press the save button down the bottom left hand corner.
Now just to show you
if we back out of this, now discard that.
If you do wanna post a prerecorded video,
tap down the bottom left hand corner
and we'll pick a video that we've got is a five second clip.
We'll click on that one and there is a little clip
that we've recorded earlier.
So you can bring in pre-recorded or pre-edited clips
into your YouTube Stories as well.
And even with these, you can hit the edit button
and shorten those down as well.
So let's wait to the bit that I started talking here
and you could probably start it about here.
So that's a super powerful tool to have in a Stories app.
But for me, I think the biggest feature
is having the ability to respond to comments.
So we back out of this now
and we go to our previous story here.
Then we get you see we've got
the six comments down the bottom.
Let's tap on the comments.
So you can see I've given this comment a heart,
we can tap on the hearts
just the same as you would
with your normal YouTube comments
and you could also give it a thumbs up
or a thumbs down as well,
but there's no way to actually type a response.
If you wanna reply to someone,
you actually have to hit reply in story
and that'll open up the camera.
You can pick this comment up and move it around
once you recorded a video or taken a photo.
So if I gotta move it now,
you can see it says add a photo or video first
and let's just record a quick video.
Sounds awesome, Desiree.
Really looking forward to meeting you there.
Make sure that's muted.
So now that we've recorded a video response,
now we have the ability to scale that comment,
card up with that question card up
or down or move it around and position it where we want.
Now when we post this,
then the user that we're responding to,
will get notified that we have done
a story-post response to their comment or question.
Now I also want to mention that the comments
that show up on the stories here
also show up in your YouTube app comments too.
So if we go over to the YouTube Studio app
and select comments.
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Now let's find some of these comments here.
This one here, there's Desiree's comment there.
So they do show up in your regular comment feed as well.
And you can see it just says story at the top there.
But again, no way to actually type a response.
So that's a complete overview
and walk through of YouTube Stories.
Now, if you're looking to create
professional-looking YouTube Stories,
then it's gonna be pretty much the same as Instagram.
So check out our video around how to create
professional-looking Instagram stories like a pro,
whether you choose to post them
on Instagram or YouTube
and I'll see you soon.