YouTube begins rolling out Stories, which last for seven days on its mobile app and can be viewed by everyone, to accounts with over 10,000 subscribers
and can't — see your Stories Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : YouTube Launches YouTube Stories, Limited to Prominent Creators Only Firstpost : YouTube is rolling out its Snapchat Stories-like feature to more creators Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : YouTube is rolling out its Instagram Stories style features to more YouTubers Ryan Christoffel / MacStories : YouTube Stories Expand to Broader Base of Creators Tim / Droid Life : YouTube Stories Now Available to All Eligible Channels With 10K+ Subscribers AdExchanger : YouTube Expands Stories; Facebook Considered Selling User Data Tweets: Philip DeFranco / @phillyd : Youtube “Stories” are weird. They stay up for 7 days, they allow comments, but you can only reply with another video/pic, and they currently lack swipe up/video linking features which to me seems like a missed opportunity. Potential, but I'm skeptical. @loudmouthjulia : this basically leaked on reddit, and people in the community were not impressed. even top creators were skeptical at best. http://twitter.com/... Pulsar / @pulsarplatform : Just another example of how ‘Stories’ are gradually taking over from news feeds http://www.pulsarplatform.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : YouTube Stories is rolling out...* http://www.theverge.com/...*For channels with >10k subscribers Heavenly / @heavenlycontrol : Yo @YouTube stories looks cool and all, but I'm not subscribed to none of these people get them out my feed pic.twitter.com/CGLXVn5kNi @savinthebees : YouTube community: please fix the algorithm, sub boxes, and notifications YouTube: we heard u like Snapchat stories so boy do we have news for u @crankgameplays : I really love how YouTube spent their time making a story feature instead of fixing the things that are broken like sub boxes and recommendeds and just the site in general. See also Mediagazer