Advertisementįurther Reading Google wants to turn YouTube into QVC with new shopping featuresAnother big change from Twitch is that YouTube clips from a channel aren't publicly listed anywhere. A big, blue 'Watch Full Video' button to the right of the video will start the full video, and since you're already on the page with the video already loaded, your browser doesn't actually go anywhere. It seems somewhat similar to the ability to link to a timestamp in a video, just 60 seconds long and on a loop. Unlike Twitch, which creates a new video from a clip, a YouTube clip link will load the original video with a start and end point on the seek bar, and the ~60-second clip will loop between these two points. For now, the feature only works on a desktop browser, but Android and iOS support is coming 'soon.' This video has clips enabled if you want to try it yourself. From there, users will get a draggable timeline editor to make a clip, name it, and share it via a new URL. The feature is currently 'in testing' with a small group of channels while YouTube gathers feedback.Ĭlips have a max of 60 seconds and can be created by pressing a new 'Share Clip' button.
YouTube is testing a feature popular from livestream platforms like Twitch: the ability for viewers and creators to make clips of longer videos, allowing for the sharing of short, bit-sized clips of a video.
