Is YouTube actually a social community?

I imply, viewers can touch upon clips, and there’s a degree of social interplay facilitated within the app. However actually, it’s a video platform, initially, with some social components baked in.

Proper?

Effectively, over the previous yr, YouTube’s been trying to make its platform a bit extra social, by the enlargement of Neighborhood Posts, which allow channel managers to put up textual content updates which can be displayed within the “Neighborhood” tab on their channel, in addition to in subscriber feeds.

And now, YouTube’s increasing Neighborhood Posts as soon as once more, with all channels set to have the ability to share social-like updates within the app.

As per YouTube:

“Within the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out entry to Neighborhood Posts extra broadly on YouTube. This builds on final yr’s replace which made posts obtainable to all channels that have been eligible for superior options, no matter subscriber rely, and we anticipate this new enlargement will assist to foster deeper and extra significant relationships between creators and their communities.”

As YouTube Notes, the function was initially solely obtainable to channels that met sure viewers thresholds, however YouTube lowered these necessities in Might final yr. And now, all channel managers will have the ability to use the function.

Which may present extra methods to attach together with your viewers, and foster neighborhood through your YouTube presence. Certainly, over the previous yr, YouTube’s additionally added polls, quizzes, disappearing updates, and extra, facilitating extra methods to interact with viewers within the app.

YouTube says that it’ll take a while to roll out to all customers, however the choice is coming quickly, for those who don’t have it already.