The 'Subscriptions' tab of the YouTube app could improve considerably in the coming months. A representative of the platform has commented in a recent Creator Insider video (via Tubefilter), that the app is testing a function called 'Collections', which will allow to sort the channels to which a user is subscribed by categories . This is a feature that aims to resolve complaints from content creators and users of the platform. These often find the current subscription feed unintuitive.
The YouTube app, remember, has a specific section that allows you to view recent videos from those channels to which a user is subscribed. However, it does not allow you to sort or categorize them. With the new tool, the user, for example, can create a tab called 'Games' and group all those content creators or channels related to this topic.
This feature is intended to benefit both content consumers and creators. For users, according to the YouTube spokesperson who has detailed the feature, collections are a way to allow them to find content “more effectively”. On the other hand, creators will also be able to use this tool as a way to “find the new videos they publish more easily.”
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Credit: Unsplash The creators, in fact, have long shown their anger in front of the limited feed of subscriptions of the YouTube app . These ensure that on many occasions the published videos are lost sight of when the user is subscribed to many channels. However, those videos added to the collections will also be displayed in chronological order. YouTube, of course, has a menu at the top of the screen that allows you to navigate between the subscribed accounts. It also shows a badge on the profile image to detail that the creator has uploaded new content.
An interesting detail about YouTube collections is that users can create any type of categories . The function, in fact, is very reminiscent of the one already included by Telegram, which gives the possibility of organizing chats or groups through tabs.
At the moment, it is unknown if this feature will be available soon in the YouTube app, since it is in development and being tested on a limited number of users.
