“Goodbye YouTube Stories: Platform to Focus on Shorts and Other Key Areas”

It seems that the stories of YouTube They are over, as has been recently known, YouTube Stories will close on June 26 of this year 2023, and they have even revealed that the company will focus on Shorts and other key aspects.

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The stories come to an end on the popular YouTube platform, because as they have mentioned, the company is looking to focus on other important areas such as shorts, community posts, as well as live videos and its usual content of long format.

As reported, creators will receive alerts about the closure through various channels, such as; forum posts, in-app messages, as well as reminders in YouTube Studio, among others. It should be noted that Stories apparently lost their strength, not only on YouTube, but also on other apps such as LinkedIn, which seem to have abandoned this function.

YouTube even admitted that “Stories” were not working as expected, noting that, among creators who used both “Stories” and “Community Posts”, the latter managed to generate more comments in most cases. and I like that the “Stories”.

In addition, from the company they also mentioned that YouTube Shorts has been more successful than Stories, because the creators who used both, on average, observed “many times more subscribers” in Shorts than in the Stories format. So according to a YouTube spokesperson, “stories will disappear to prioritize the key areas that creators need to be successful.”

However, it is important to make it clear that creators who use “Stories” frequently will receive an alert about its closure through a notification in YouTube Studio, in the content of the “Help Center”, even, as they have highlighted, YouTube will remind them to creators about the changes in an upcoming “Creator Insider” video, where he regularly posts updates. In addition, there will be a notification directly in Stories, if the creators access the function before June 26.

It should be noted that from that date, it will no longer be possible to create a new “YouTube Story”, however, the company has emphasized that the stories that are already active will continue to be active for a period of 7 days after they have been shared. initially.