As defined by YouTube:

“We’ve heard that YouTube customers are in search of extra methods to search out Group posts from creators, so we’re experimenting with a “posts-only” feed on the Residence tab on cell gadgets. When you’re within the experiment, you may even see a “View all” button on single Group posts on Residence, which you’ll faucet to view extra posts from channels you’ve engaged with up to now or posts that we expect it’s possible you’ll like.”

So it’s primarily constructing a Twitter-like textual content replace feed into YouTube, with posts from channels that you simply observe, and channels you would possibly like, built-in right into a devoted updates stream.

Which might be an attention-grabbing engagement aspect, and one other method for channel managers to maintain their viewers knowledgeable of supplemental updates, except for simply their uploads.

YouTube’s been working to make Group Posts a much bigger a part of group engagement, by including polls, quizzes (out there on Android, coming to iOS quickly), disappearing updates, and extra. YouTube additionally lowered the thresholds for qualification for Group Notes again in Might, with all channel managers now ready to make use of the function.

The brand new devoted notes tab provides one other consideration, which may make it a extra useful technique of outreach and consciousness within the app.  

YouTube says that it’s testing its new Group Notes cell feed with “a small group of customers” on each Android and iOS.