Testing Clips on YouTube

Hi everyone,

We’ve heard a lot of feedback from creators and viewers who have wanted an easy way to capture short segments of content and share moments from videos or streams. We’re excited to begin our testing of a clipping feature on YouTube starting today with a small group of creators while we start gathering feedback. Creation of clips is currently available on desktop and Android devices to start, with iOS devices coming soon.

Clips on YouTube allows you to select a 5-60 second segment of a creator's content (video uploads and streams) that can be shared with others across platforms. If you’re viewing content from one of the channels in this experiment, you’ll see a clip icon under the video that will allow you to select a portion of the video that you want to clip. The clip will be played on the original video and loop repeatedly.

You can learn more here and try out Clips for yourself on this video!

We’re continuing to test this feature and will be making updates based on your feedback, so please share your thoughts with us in the replies below or by using the link here. We’ll update this post when we have new information to share on the availability of clips as we know its a highly requested feature you’re all eager to test out. 

Jensen (TeamYouTube)