What you need to know
- YouTube will now highlight the “most replayed parts of a video” in a chart above the progress bar on desktop, Android and iOS.
- High graph lines indicate where other viewers showed the most interest, so you can move on.
- YouTube is also testing a revamped preview tool while scrolling through the video progress bar.
A new YouTube feature overlays a graph above the video’s progress bar, showing where previous viewers spent the most time. The higher the top of the chart, the more that portion of the video played.
Announced and launched on May 18, the YouTube chart will make it much faster to jump to the highlights of a video, as rated by other people.
For example, a sports highlights video is likely to climb highest during the climax game, while an instructional video on fixing a broken sink will rise past the opening game.
If the meaning of the chart is not clear enough, the preview image on the YouTube community page also shows a thumbnail with the most replays and a specific time. That makes it easy, as the post says, to “find and watch those moments quickly” without having to skip the video in five-second bursts.
Despite launching “today” on web and mobile, the feature doesn’t appear to be available on Android or iOS as of publication. But we expect that you will soon see this visual shortcut on your Android phone of choice.
We’re yet to see how YouTube creators will react to this new feature, as it essentially encourages viewers to skip most of their content. This can hurt YouTubers financially by causing viewers to skip past ad breaks to the meaty part of the content.
Google has previously tested this feature on YouTube Premium. The announcement also teased a “new experimental feature” that “will search for the” exactly moment in a video you want to watch”, which comes first to Premium subscribers.
Along with its YouTube Shorts push to compete with TikTok, Google is clearly trying to break down its longform content into smaller chunks to make it more digestible for viewers with short attention spans.
It recently announced it would add automatic chapter splits to 80 million old videos using Deepmind AI by next year, while also adding chapter support to smart TVs and consoles.
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