Neighborhood Posts are feed-based updates which are viewable throughout the ‘Neighborhood’ tab, which could be accessed on YouTube channels with over 500 subscribers. It’s primarily a social media-style replace feed, designed to boost engagement together with your YouTube neighborhood, as an apart out of your common video uploads.

And now, there are some new choices to drive extra Neighborhood interactions.

First off, YouTube’s increasing its new visible enhancing course of for image-based posts, which offers extra methods to compose your Neighborhood updates.

As per YouTube:

“Should you’re a creator on this experiment, you’ll be capable to use the YouTube app so as to add filters, textual content, and stickers to pictures for posts. This experiment will roll out to a small proportion of creators who use iOS units and have the Neighborhood tab enabled.”

YouTube launched the primary stage of its visible enhancing updates on Android again in August, and it’s now making it extra broadly out there, with its numerous enhancing instruments facilitating new methods to boost your Neighborhood Updates, and generate extra engagement.  

YouTube’s additionally including quizzes as one other Neighborhood Posting choice, offering extra methods to generate direct engagement and interplay together with your viewers.

As per YouTube:

“Quizzes introduce a brand new, interactive method for creators to have interaction with viewers, and in instances of instructional channels, assist them study. Creators within the beta can create quizzes the identical method as other forms of Neighborhood Posts. We’re starting to check the quizzes beta with a small variety of creators and can look to increase sooner or later based mostly on suggestions.”

YouTube additionally added disappearing updates as a Neighborhood Submit choice again in June, whereas you can too publish GIFs, pictures and polls to spice up interplay together with your channel viewers.

It’s laborious to say how worthwhile Neighborhood Posts are in constructing your YouTube engagement, but it surely could possibly be a worthwhile complement to your video uploads, and a way to share extra, extra typically, together with your viewers within the app.

Each checks at the moment are stay with chosen customers.