YouTube appears to be beginning to roll out its group notes characteristic to a choose group of customers. Screenshots of YouTube’s official invitation to affix the pilot program for its new group correction characteristic are popping up throughout social media, based on 9to5Google.
YouTube first introduced its group notes characteristic in June. The brand new characteristic permits viewers to submit brief blurbs that present extra context or appropriate data to sure video content material. The group notes characteristic comes forward of the US presidential election.
There isn’t any official begin date for the brand new characteristic, however YouTube has added a bit to its “Assist” database with directions on writing and submitting notes. We’ve additionally reached out to Google for a touch upon the brand new characteristic.
The pilot program is at present solely accessible in English for cellular gadgets within the US, based on the assist web page. The corporate beforehand mentioned it could invite contributors by means of e-mail or their Creator Studios account. The choose group of take a look at topics will present suggestions to YouTube to assist the platform decide which notes are “useful,” “considerably useful” or “unhelpful,” earlier than rolling out its group notes characteristic to the general public, based on the official YouTube weblog.