YouTube just added a new feature, and it may be exactly what you need.
The video streaming giant announced and launched on May 18 the YouTube graph, which will make it far quicker to jump to a video's highlights.
In a graph above the progress bar on your desktop, Android, or iOS, YouTube will now highlight the "most replayed parts of a video." The high graph lines indicate what other viewers found interesting, so you can immediately skip ahead.
New YouTube Feature Overlays a Graph Above the Progress Bar
A new YouTube feature overlays a graph above the video progress bar that would show where previous viewers spent the most time. The higher the ridge of the graph means the more that section of video was replayed, according to Android Central.
Moreover, Android Central said that if the meaning of the graph isn't clear enough, the example image on the YouTube community page shows a "most replayed" thumbnail with a specific time. As the post says, that'll make it easy to "quickly find and watch those moments" without having to skip through the video in five-second bursts.
The new feature was launched today on the web and mobile, but it doesn't appear available yet on Android or iOS. However, it is expected that you'll see this visual shortcut on your Android phone of choice soon.
We will have to wait for the reactions of YouTube creators to this new feature, as it basically encourages viewers to skip past the majority of their content.
According to Android Central, this might potentially hurt YouTubers financially by ensuring viewers skip past ad breaks to the meaty part of the content.
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New YouTube Feature is After Making Content More Enjoyable to Viewers With Short Attention Spans
This new feature was previously tested on YouTube Premium. The announcement also outlined a "new experimental feature" that'll "seek to the exact moment in a video that you want to watch," which will first be displayed to Premium subscribers, as per Android Central.
Along with its YouTube Shorts, which seeks to compete with TikTok, Google is clearly trying to break up its long-form content into smaller chunks. This makes the content more enjoyable to viewers with short attention spans.
Recently, it announced that by next year, it would add automatic chapter splitting to 80 million old videos using Deepmind AI while adding chapter support to smart TVs and consoles.
YouTube has been continuously making the platform more viewers friendly. Google also confirmed during the I/O 2022 that it's adding transcripts and auto-translated video captions for YouTube on mobile devices, with support for 16 languages.
Building on existing features like auto-generated chapters, including transcripts and auto-translated video captions, is part of Google's work to make YouTube videos easier to navigate and search.
The auto-translated captions for YouTube mobile are another new feature we're getting from YouTube. This feature has been available for a long time on the web version of YouTube, and now it is also available for mobile.
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