YouTube launches Stories for channels with over 10k subscribers. Stories will disappear not after 24 hours, like on Instagram, but after 7 days.

As a reminder, this feature has been tested by a limited number of users over the past year.

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Why YouTube Stories

The main goal of the innovation is to focus bloggers on your site. Many creators use Instagram, Snapchat and other social media to interact with their audience outside of YouTube. These activities include publishing trailers, communicating in a live format, and all the same disappearing content in the format of Stories. Now, a fast way to interact with your audience will be available within YouTube.

YouTube Stories will be visible to all users, whether subscribed to the channel or not. Stories lifetime is 7 days after publication. It will be possible to record and publish Stories directly from your mobile phone in the application.

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How to add a YouTube story

So, in order to publish your Story on YouTube, you need to have at least 10,000 subscribers. If your channel meets these requirements, then you need to do the following.

• Log in to the YouTube mobile app and tap the camera and select “History”.
• To record video, hold the capture button, and for a photo just press the same button once.
• You can also use a video or photo from your phone as Stories.
• As a Story decoration you can use: music, filters, text and stickers.

You can view your Story by clicking on your avatar at the top of the page, in the subscription feed, and also on the channel page. For each Stories there will be available view statistics.

Your subscribers will be able to view stories in the “Subscriptions” section, they will also be able to write comments under them. All other users will find stories on the main page of the service.

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