YouTube To Soon Let People Add Notes In 'Inaccurate and Unclear' Videos; All You Need To Know

Video streaming platform YouTube tests new features for users at regular intervals. In the latest attempt to improve user experience, the company is experimenting with an option to let users add notes in a video for a better context in the US. This can help users gain "relevant, timely and easy-to-understand" context on videos. The feature builds on the platform's information panels and disclosure provisions for synthetic content.

YouTube highlights the use cases to let users understand the context around the nature of a song, know about older footage that may be marked as new and more. The test will be available in the US for mobile users in English. The Google platform cautioned that this context may not be correct in all cases. "During this test phase, we anticipate that there will be mistakes – notes that aren't a great match for the video, or potentially incorrect information," YouTube said.

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Creators, viewers and participants can send suggestions to the platform, including improvements in the quality of the notes in the future. A limited set of contributors will be invited to add notes in videos via email or a notification in the Creator Studio before expansion plans. These notes will start appearing on videos in the coming weeks.

YouTube also said "third-party evaluators", who also offer feedback on the platform's search results and recommendations, will rate the effectiveness of a note in helping people. These "notes will appear publicly under a video if they're found to be broadly helpful". Eligible testers can submit notes if they find a video to be "inaccurate or unclear", a YouTube Help page said.

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Users can submit whether the notes were 'helpful', 'somewhat helpful', or 'unhelpful' including the reasons. The company will use a "bridging-based algorithm" to consider ratings and zero down if a note should be published. "If many people who have rated notes differently in the past now rate the same note as helpful, then our system is more likely to show that note under a video," YouTube added.