YouTubers Can Interact With Viewers Via Live Text, Videos, and GIFs

Have a favorite YouTuber? Presently, information technology may be a lot easier to interact with them.

Google just introduced YouTube Customs, a new tool designed to aid broadcasters connect with their fans.

From the new Community tab on their YouTube channel, creators will be able to interact with viewers via alive text, videos, images, animated GIFs, and more.

In a blogpost announcing the new feature, YouTube Senior Product Manager, Kiley McEvoy, said information technology "represents the deepest product collaboration nosotros've ever washed with creators."

At this indicate, it'southward nevertheless pretty express.

Google launched the feature in Beta Mode with a handful of YouTubers, including John & Hank Green, to AsapSCIENCE, The Game Theorists, Karmin, The Key of Crawly, The Kloons, Lilly Singh, Peter Hollens, Rosianna Halse Rojas, Sam Tsui, Threadbanger, and VSauce3.

"This is a first step and, with creator and fan feedback, we look frontward to rolling out new features and functions as well as including more than creators in the months ahead," McEvoy wrote.

The new tool comes afterward YouTube in June launched mobile alive streaming to take on Facebook Live and Periscope. Now, yous can just tap the ruddy capture button within the YouTube app, take or select a photo to employ every bit a thumbnail, and broadcast to fans in near real time. YouTube live streaming comes with all the same features as regular videos: search, recommendations, playlists, and protection from unauthorized uses.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'due south practiced on fitness and smart home products. Instruction yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength grooming machines, treadmills, and more. Angela likewise tests smart dwelling house devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.