YouTube are now taking a page from Twitch as they are introducing a new feature: Clips.
Twitch has a built-in clipping feature where you can save a short highlight from a stream to later be shared.
YouTube, in particular YouTube gaming, offers no such feature. However, clip channels that manually clips highlights of streams have recently been popular- and help popularise the stream source as well.
It’s how vTuber has grown into prominence on YouTube more recently.
Anyway, so Clips on YouTube will expand on the way how you can share a video link with a specific starting time. With Clips, you can specify when it ends, and once shared, the unique URL will play the clip on loop. Clips will be either 5-60 seconds long.
This makes it easier to highlight great moments of gaming, or things streamers say that will sound… intriguing when taken out of context.
Either way, Clips make it easier for everyone to highlight moments and share it around. So be careful of what you may say live on stream.
Currently, Clips are available through YouTube on the web and Android app, but will be rolled out to all devices soon. Only certain gaming channels on YouTube will have the clips function available for you to use right now. And this includes YouTube’s Creator Insider channel up above.