Create YouTube Stories

Stories are brusque, mobile-only videos that allow you to connect with your audience more casually, on the go. They expire afterward 7 days.

Stories are in beta and available to channels with over 10,000 subscribers. Information technology may have up to 7 days for Stories to evidence upwards later reaching 10,000 subscribers.

Create a story

  1. Sign in to YouTube on mobile.
  2. Tap the create icon , and soAdd together to your story .
    • If you don't come across the Story selection, your device is not compatible with Stories currently.
  3. Tap the capture button  to have a photograph, or agree information technology down to record a video.
  4. Add effects like filters, stickers, and text. Yous can too trim your story or salvage it.
  5. TapMail service.

You lot can also select a video or prototype from your mobile device to add to your story.

Add stickers to your story

When editing your story, you can add stickers to express yourself, link to a video, and more.

  1. From the top right, tap Stickers .
  2. Select a sticker to add together it to your story.

Reply to a comment on a story

You can highlight and get back to comments from viewers with a annotate sticker in your next story.

  1. Go to your story past selecting your profile picture from the Subscriptions feed or from your channel page.
  2. Tap the Comments .
  3. Below the comment y'all'd like to highlight in your adjacent story, tap Reply in Story.
  4. Record a video or photograph with the app.
  5. Tap Post.

Yous can change the position and size of the comment sticker in your story subsequently recording your response by pinching and dragging with two fingers.

Delete a video within a story

  1. Tap the story.
  2. Tap the thespian until you get to the video or photo you'd similar to delete.
  3. Tap Menu and then Delete.

Learn more near Stories

Where practice Stories appear?

Stories are on mobile just and appear on the Stories page on your channel. They may testify on the Subscriptions feed to subscribers. In addition, all viewers may see your Stories on Domicile and on some watch pages.

You tin can view your own story by tapping your profile motion picture in the Stories row on the app's Abode screen or on the Subscriptions feed.

How practice I check views, comments, and likes for my story?

You'll see the number of views, comments, and likes on each of your own story posts at the bottom of the histrion.

On the YouTube app, you may besides see the total number of views and subscribers you've gotten in the last 14 days. This info will announced above the Stories row on Dwelling house. Y'all can also see your information on the Overview tab in YouTube Analytics.

Notation: Viewers can't see the number of views, comments, or likes on your story.

Tin I manage comments on Stories?

Y'all can remove or report comments straight in your story. Comments on Stories volition expire with the story after 7 days.

You lot can as well manage comments under the Comments tab in YouTube Studio, where you lot can see comments fabricated on a story for 30 days.

Can I plough off notifications for views on my Stories?

By default, creators become notifications about views of their Stories and subscribers resulting from their Stories. Currently, it isn't possible to plough off notifications just for Stories. Story notifications are office of notifications for "Action on my videos or channel."

To turn off notifications for action on your videos and channel:

  1. Sign in to YouTube on a mobile device.
  2. Select your contour moving picture and thenSettings.
  3. Select Notifications.
  4. Plow off "Activity on my aqueduct."

Where tin can I manage my Stories?

To manage Stories, open the Content page of YouTube Studio. At the height of the Content page, click Stories. From here y'all can:

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