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YouTube Introduces Clips For Live Streams

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YouTube is testing a new feature called Clips which allows users to make short, shareable videos out of creators’ live streams.

Clipping is a standard feature in live streaming and it’s finally being adopted by YouTube.

If the popularity of Clips on Twitch is any indication, this could prove to be one of the more significant additions to YouTube in recent memory.

Clips lets creators and viewers grab footage from a live stream, between 5 to 60 seconds in length, and share it with other people.

Viewers tend to create clips from streams when there’s a funny moment, an insightful quote, an embarrassing blooper, an impressive play in a video game, and so on.

When I cover these streams for Search Engine Journal I link out to the whole 1 hour video. Now I can create clips and link to Mueller’s exact quotes.

A clip has its own URL associated with it and links back to the creator’s channel. Every time a viewer clips a stream and shares it they’re potentially helping the channel gain more viewers.

YouTube is late to the party on this one, but its Clips feature isn’t ready for a wide release yet. An experimental version is being launched in testing to start.

Clips on YouTube: Currently in Testing

YouTube is testing Clips with a small group of creators while gathering feedback to guide further development of this feature.

Clips can be created during a creator’s live stream and from the video on demand (VOD) uploaded afterward.

If you’re viewing content from one of the channels included in the test group, you’ll see a clip icon under the video which looks like a pair of scissors.

Here’s everything we know about YouTube Clips at this point.

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