What is YouTube Super Chat?
As we said, this is a new tool, designed especially for the most successful YouTubers, which will allow them to monetize their live activity within the platform. How? Thanks to this new chat system, in which fans will brazil phone number library able to pay for their comments during a live video to appear highlighted and be seen more easily by the content creators and other users. These 'Super Chats' can remain pinned to the top of the chat for up to 5 hours, enough time for them to achieve the relevance they desire.
For the platform's managers, this has a double advantage: on the one hand, it gives creators the opportunity to maintain a closer link with their most enthusiastic followers; on the other, it allows them to make a financial profit from their live broadcasts.
YouTube Super Chat
When will it be available?
Super Chat is currently only active for some YouTubers in beta, although Google plans to launch the final version for creators in 20 countries on January 31. In any case, it will only be available for live video broadcasts , not for conventional videos.
The arrival of this new feature will also mean the end of Fun Funding , the tool used until now to make donations to content creators. Fun Funding no longer allows new registrations, although it will continue to be available on enabled channels until February 28.
With the arrival of Super Chat and the recent launch of YouTube Community , Google is once again demonstrating that it is still trying to gain ground on other social networks such as Facebook or Instagram. Will it succeed?
