- YouTube stories is a cool Instagram stories-like feature
for your YouTube channel.
In this video,
we're gonna cover a complete outdated tutorial
from how to enable YouTube stories
right through to maximizing your views and results
using YouTube stories.
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So YouTube stories is a super powerful tool
and a great way for you to reach more of your subscribers
than a typical video otherwise might.
Yes, it is a complete rip off of Instagram stories,
even the interface is almost identical.
Now, since it originally came out,
the feature set has changed quite a bit,
with a few things added,
a few things removed,
and some things were re-added again.
But now that it's hit a level of maturity,
we thought we create this updated tutorial
to reflect the newer interface, and the newer features.
So we're gonna dive into a little bit of background first
and then into a quick tutorial to get you up and running.
That just like Instagram stories,
YouTube stories are also 15 second clips.
Now instead of lasting 24 hours
like they do on Instagram though,
on YouTube, they stick around for seven days,
but you can remove them earlier if you'd like to.
Stories is a feature that's only available on mobile.
If you wanna post or even view stories,
you can only do that from your mobile device.
There is no desktop support currently.
And they can shoot stories directly in the app,
or you can upload prerecorded videos to post as stories too.
But unlike Snapchat or Instagram,
where you can record for longer than 15 seconds,
or even upload a video that is longer than 15 seconds,
where it automatically is going to create
multiple 15 second clips for you that flow together,
YouTube stories doesn't have that capability.
So you're currently limited to just 15 seconds at a time.
Meaning that you need to record multiple clips manually
or use an app like Split Video or Cut Story
to cut your longer videos into 15 second chunks to upload.
But YouTube stories does have a trim feature.
So you could upload a longer form video
and trim it down to 15 second clips
inside of the app itself.
Now with the YouTube stories themselves,
you can add stickers,
you can add emojis, and text,
and you can also tag or mention your channel
and other channels or other creators.
And you can even directly link to one of your own videos
or even someone else's from within your story as well.
Now, if you're wanting to link off
to one of your own videos,
then you can currently only do one per week,
but there's no limit for tagging or mentioning other videos
in your stories.
Now, for anyone that's watching your stories
that isn't subscribed to your channel.
There's also a subscribed button
that appears down the bottom.
So stories is actually a great way to gain more subscribers
on your channel as well.
Now, your viewers can leave comments
on your stories as well.
These are visible to anyone watching,
and while you can't reply directly with text,
you can reply with a story post.
You can give the comment a heart,
or you can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
Now to enable the YouTube story feature on your channel,
the official YouTube page for stories,
says that you need to have 10,000 subscribers,
but apparently there's a lot of people out there
that have access to the stories feature
that have well under that threshold.
So it's worth checking out if you've got access to it
on your channel.
Now, if you have hit
that 10,000 subscriber mark,
they also said that you might need to wait up to six weeks
before it's enabled on your channel.
And you also have to have a compatible phone
to also see this feature inside of the YouTube app.
But really any phone that's fairly recent
you should be able to work with it fine.
Now, as for the stories themselves,
they're now featured in a lot more places
on the YouTube mobile app.
You can find them on the main front page in the app
after scrolling down just a little bit,
and you can also see some of your analytics
for the stories that you've posted in there as well.
And there's also a dedicated area for YouTube stories
on the subscription page
when you scroll down a little bit as well.
Okay, so over here in the YouTube app now,
and if we scroll down, you can see straightaway here.
We don't have to scroll very far
before we're able to access stories.
You can see here the first button
is for me to create another story.
You can play back your own story
so I can see mine here next.
And then we can scroll across and see different stories
that we haven't viewed yet on our channel.
Now we'll say it as well that these are also showing stories
from people who I'm not subscribed to as well.
So Fox News, I'm not subscribed to Fox News,
but if we press on this then you can see down the bottom
that we have that subscribe button.
So we could subscribe to this channel if we wanted to.
So this is a really powerful tool
for you to grow your subscriber base as well,
because your content can be shown to people
who aren't subscribed to your channel.
So if we go back out of that now
the other place that stories appear,
is down under subscriptions.
And if we scroll down a little bit,
then again, we can see YouTube stories here.
And again, just tap on them to play,
we can tap on the side to go across to the next story,
or we can swipe up as well to go across to the next person,
but let's go back to Dee Nimmin.
Let's watch some of his,
so you can see that he's using the Q&A feature.
He's able to bring up people's comments in here
and to answer them as YouTube stories.
So we're back out of this one now.
So to create your own YouTube stories,
you can go back to the home,
scroll down to this area here
and just press the Create button there,
or no matter where you are on YouTube,
you can press the plus button down the bottom
and select Add to your story.
That is also how you can check if you've got access
to this feature right now.
So we're gonna choose Add to your story
and there, yeah, there's me.
Hey, Hey mum.
Then this is the YouTube stories interface.
So up the top left here, we've got a filters button.
If I press on that one now,
you can see that we get some filters
and things across the bottom.
Just to change up the look and feel of the shot.
Think of these again, like Instagram filters.
So we're gonna go none.
Down the bottom right-hand corner,
we have the ability to switch
between the front facing camera which I'm on now,
and the one on the back.
So you can see little behind the scenes.
Hey, there's me again, up there.
Oh, well, so we can switch back to the front.
I don't know that that's a better shot for you,
but Hey, we're back on the front.
We can turn on or off the camera flash
using the button next to that.
We can also apply some effects using this button here.
So if we press on this one,
then we've got, again,
kind of looks like Instagram style stuff that you can apply.
You can also upload your own videos by pressing this button.
So if we press on this one here now,
we can see that we have access to other videos
on our phones.
And let's just pick this one here
it was a prerecorded video.
This one is actually longer than 15 seconds.
So I do have the ability
to come over to the pair of scissors,
the trim button here to trim this down.
You can see that I can adjust the start time of this clip
and the end time.
But I am limited to 15 seconds here with this clip.
I'll back out of this now discard these changes.
So it's back with me on here.
Now, if I just tap on the record button down here,
it's gonna take a photo.
If I press and hold on it, it's going to record a video.
So this is me recording a video.
Now I strictly have 15 seconds at this point,
you can see that circle filling up down the bottom.
When it reaches the end, it's going to stop capturing.
It's not gonna flow through and let me record for longer
than the 15 seconds.
So there we go, we're out.
So now that you've captured your photo
or your video that you wanna post,
or you've selected one that's already on your phone
that you wanna trim down to upload as a story.
Then again, you get access to those filters
up here in the top right-hand corner.
I can change up the look and feel of your shot.
You can go done on that one.
We can add some text,
add some awesome text,
make it bigger.
We can change the style of it
using the controls across the top.
So we've got a few different options in here.
Let's do this one here, done.
Again we can pinch to zoom,
pinch to rotate,
pick it up and move it around on our screen.
We also have the ability to draw as well.
So we've got a few different pens and markers
and things at the top for options.
We can select our colors down the bottom
and we can draw on our story as well.
So I'm gonna go undo for that one
and choose done to go back.
The next one down is stickers.
So in here you can access your recent stickers
that you have used.
We can also access all of the stickers on the next one.
But the three most powerful ones
are the three across the top here,
linking off to a video,
tagging your location,
or at mentioning either your own channel
or another channel that you wanna link off to.
And these are actual clickable links
that people can interact with
while they're watching your story.
So I'm gonna go ahead and press on Video.
Now in here, that's gonna bring up a list of the videos
that you have watched recently on your channel.
You will have to have actually watched one of these videos
to be able to tag off to it.
So I'm gonna press this one here
just happens to be one of ours
and you again can pick it up and move it around,
scale it, bigger or smaller,
but this is a clickable link off to that video.
Maybe we'll put it up here
and let's move this text up on top of it.
Now, if we go back into stickers and add in a location,
let's type in Mooloolaba,
which is where I'm at.
We can tag in that location on here as well.
And we also have the ability to add in a mention.
So in here we could tag another channel
like we could go and Nick Nimmin.
Yeah, she tagged multiple people.
And again, these are clickable links off to their channels,
so we can do another one.
Let's go his brother from the same mother, Dee Nimmin.
Nick and Dee will link to one of our videos
we've tagged my location in here.
Next, we get some control over the volume as well.
We can mute the audio altogether,
or we can actually enhance your speech
and associate that enhancing the speech
reduces background noise,
so that your viewers can actually hear you more clearly.
So you can use this to take out some of the wind noise
or background noise that you might have
while you're creating your story.
So pretty cool feature.
So got done with this one.
And down the bottom left,
you can actually save this clip to your phone as well,
just by pressing the Save button
in case you wanna repost it to another platform maybe.
And then when you're ready to post,
you just hit the post button down there
and it'll go through and submit that as your latest story.
Now that that's done,
let's say that we want to interact
and find any of the comments
and things that people have left on our stories.
We wanna go down and find the stories section
and tap on your stories.
And you can see down the bottom here,
how many thumbs up a story has,
how many views it has,
now only you can view how many views a story has,
and you can also see how many comments it has.
So if we press on Comments down the bottom here,
then we can read the comments in here.
You can see that we can give them a thumbs up,
a thumbs down,
or a heart.
And we also have the ability to reply in story.
Now, if I press Reply In Story for say this top one here,
and you can see it's gonna open up the camera again.
Now we can either take a photo,
we can upload a photo,
or we can record a video response to this message.
And once that's done, we can pick that message up,
put that comment up and we can move it around.
So let's take a photo.
So you can see that we have the ability to pick it up,
rotate it, move it around to create this next story post.
And when you post this with that comment in there,
that person will be notified
that you have responded to this story
inside of another story.
So I cancel this now, back out of this one,
discard it.
And close this one.
Now to remove a story,
let's go across and find the most recent one
that I just posted.
You just need to hit the More button down the bottom
and then delete.
And it will ask you to show you want this to be removed,
press Remove,
and that has now been removed.
But by default, your stories will stick around
and last seven days before they are removed.
Now, another place that you can find
and interact with your comments on YouTube stories
is inside the YouTube Studio app.
If you open up the YouTube Studio app,
hit the little hamburger menu in the top left-hand corner,
and then come down to comments.
Then if we scroll down here,
you can see that we've got two story posts here.
So they say story on the left
and you can clearly see that it's a vertical video.
And we can again, give these a thumbs up, thumbs down,
or a heart from this comment section too.
And you also have this same ability from desktop as well.
So it'd be really cool at some point,
if we could actually respond to these comments as texts,
just to quick text response would be awesome.
But for now,
these are the features that we've got access to.
So that's a complete, you look at YouTube stories.
Now, if you wanna take your YouTube stories up a notch,
and you're looking for the best video editing software
on your iPhone or Android device,
then check out the videos linked on screen
to help you decide which one is the best one for you.
And I'll see you in the next video.