YouTube adds a new feature that highlights the ‘Most Replayed’ parts of a Video.

YouTube is well on its into launching a brand-new feature for its Video Player and Mobile App, that will presumably allow its viewers to identify the most replayed or the most popular parts of a Video, thus effectively allowing them to skip parts of a video that the majority of the people may unnecessary or irrelevant.

Laying the Groundwork

Although a wholly new concept introduced by the Company, this feature was in fact already available to the vast majority of Subscribers of YouTube Premium, the Company’s ad-free Subscription Service. Labelled as an Experiment, the Company aimed to allow its Premium Subscribers to simple a get a taste of what to expect from their newest feature. This potentially allowed the Company to attain a proper form of feedback from their valued Users which most definitely could have gone a long way in helping the Company figure out the numerous faults or errors that occasionally do rise during the implementation of a new feature akin to this one. It is therefore evident in the fact that since the Company is completely satisfied with the progress of their feature, that they are allowing it to be released Worldwide to all of their Website and App Users. The feature will therefore now be fully available to all Users in both Free and Premium ends of YouTube, across all desktop, android and iOS platforms.

Details of the Feature

As part of this new feature, YouTube will be adding a subtle grey colored graph the purpose of which will be to show the viewers, what parts of a video seem to be more popular with the Majority of the General Audience, and which parts of the video are supposedly viewed less. This is done through the gathering of a large quantities of data from numerous individuals on the YouTube Website and App, who play a specific part of video over and over again, while frequently skipping some parts of the same video. In terms of the aforementioned concept’s visual representation on the actual graph, the height of the graph will be the main indicator of the popularity of the Video Part. The Higher the graph, the more replayed will that specific section of a Video, exact opposite of this is therefore true as well, as the lower the graph, the less replayed will be that specific part of a Video. Apart from this, the Video Thumbnail that become visible after using the red progress bar, will also indicate segments of a Video as ‘Most Replayed’ once hovered over a specific part of a Video. Alongside this prolific feature, YouTube is also introducing several other tools and modifications for their Website and App, such as the Support for Video Chapters that allow segmentation of particular sections of a video, allowing Users to either move to different sections or easily re-watch a specific section of a Video. Furthermore, the Single Look is also a new feature introduced by YouTube that will enable Users to put a single video on an endless repeat.

The Benefits of the Feature

One of the major benefits right out of the gate from the implementation of this feature is that ease provided to the Users to pinpoint useful information from Videos such as Tutorial Videos or to skip right to the action in a Gaming Walkthrough Video, while scrubbing through the parts that may not interest them. It could also make longer videos much more viewable for the average consumer of Videos, since the User can simply look through the parts that have the higher graph trend in an hour, or numerous hours long video. With regards to the Content Creators, the higher graph trend could be yet another User-Interest indicating factor for them to identify and later capitalize on, since it will clearly show what part of their general video idea did their viewers respond to the most. Thus, enabling the Content Creators to modify their Content in accordance with what is considered more popular in their prior videos.