YouTube has announced a host of new services to their social networking site, including a music subscription service, the ability to crowdfund and watching videos in 60 frames per second.
The new features were announced by the product managers and vice-president of engineering through YouTube’s company blog.
YouTube’s new crowdfunding service, ‘fan funding’, will allow subscribers to directly donate to their favourite YouTubers, basing the idea on the Kickstarter project.
Here’s a look at the features what YouTube had to say about the new changes…
- YouTube Creator Studio: “To help you manage your videos on the go, the new YouTube Creator Studio app lets you see analytics, manage your videos and more. The app is available now on Android and launching on iOS in coming weeks and you’ll see some redesign of the Creator Studio on desktop too.”
- Audio Library, now with sound effects: “To make your lives easier and videos better, from today you now have thousands of royalty-free sound effects at your disposal. We’ve also added more tracks to the Audio Library.”
- 60 frames per second videos: “Your video game footage with crazy high frame rates will soon look as awesome on YouTube as it does when you’re playing, when we launch support for 48 and even 60 frames per second in the coming months.”
- Fan Funding: “We’ll be adding another option for you, where fans will be able to contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any reason.”
- Creator Credits: “You’re already giving your collaborators shout outs in your video descriptions. But what if those text-based shout outs were tags that let viewers click through to their channels, or let you search for a collaborator based on their work and location? That’s our vision for Creator Credits, stay tuned for more.”
- Subtitles contributed from fans: “In the coming months, your fans will be able to submit translations in any language based on the subtitles or captions you’ve created, helping you reach even more viewers.”
- Info Cards: “In the near future, you’ll see our new interactive information cards with a clean look, which you’ll beable to program once to work across desktop, phones and tablets.”
- More ways to playlist: “Along with playlists analytics we recently added to analytics, expect to see more ways to create playlists, so that all the time you spend building them translates into easier discovery for viewers and better results for you.”
A number of YouTubers have signed up to test the platform which will be rolled out across desktop and Android.
