YouTube redesign provides long-form movies, Shorts and Dwell movies their very own tabs on channel pages

YouTube is rolling out a change impacting how movies seem on its platform. The corporate right this moment announced a redesign that now splits video content material into three totally different tabs on all channel pages — one for YouTube’s conventional long-form content material, one other for YouTube Shorts solely and a 3rd for Dwell movies, together with previous, present and upcoming livestreams.

The modifications will permit customers to extra simply entry the sorts of YouTube movies they wish to watch — a transfer YouTube says it made based mostly on consumer suggestions. In an announcement, the corporate mentioned it heard from viewers they wished to have the ability to navigate to the sorts of content material they had been most all in favour of when exploring a creator’s channel web page, resulting in this makeover.

The replace additionally signifies that Shorts content material and Dwell streams will now not be present in the primary Movies tab on the channel web page — one thing that would attraction to longtime YouTube viewers who haven’t appreciated the infiltration of YouTube’s short-form content material into their favourite channel’s video feed in current months.

Nevertheless, for many who do like watching Shorts, the redesign provides YouTube a strategy to direct them to extra short-form movies. Now, when customers are watching Shorts movies within the Shorts feed in the primary YouTube app, then navigate to the creator’s channel, they’ll be despatched straight into this new Shorts tab to look at much more Shorts content material. This might assist YouTube increase its views for Shorts as these customers will now not be instantly misplaced to the creator’s long-form content material, as earlier than.

Preliminary suggestions from customers on Twitter responding to YouTube’s publish concerning the modifications has been optimistic, as customers are expressing their appreciation for giving every sort of content material its personal separate class.

The redesign follows one other main replace to YouTube this month which launched, in the end, YouTube handles in the @username format. These usernames will now permit creators to determine their channel and work together with their viewers throughout YouTube Shorts, channel pages, in video descriptions, in feedback and extra.

YouTube says the tabbed redesign is rolling out beginning right this moment and might be accessible to all customers throughout all units within the weeks forward.