# YouTube tests context ‘notes’ feature for videos
Published: 2024-06-18
Category: News
Category URL: https://tradingherald.com/category/news/
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Meta Description: YouTube will soon allow users to add 'notes' providing context on videos, starting in the U.S. Notes aim to clarify, inform, and distinguish content.
URL: https://tradingherald.com/youtube-tests-context-notes-feature-for-videos/

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## YouTube tests context ‘notes’ feature for videos

(Reuters) – Alphabet’s YouTube will soon allow users to add ‘notes’ that will provide [context](https://tradingherald.com/an-ems-with-a-long-term-memory/) on some of its videos as part of a new feature that will be initially rolled out in the United States, it said on Monday.

[YouTube](https://tradingherald.com/youtube-in-challenge-to-tiktok-to-give-shorts-creators-45-of-ad-sales/) will invite certain users and creators, as part of the initial test phase, to write notes that are meant to provide “relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand context” on videos.

The [notes,](https://tradingherald.com/stocks-hit-record-u-s-treasury-yields-hover-above-5-month-lows/) for instance could clarify when a song is meant to be a parody, point out when a new version of a product being reviewed is available, or let viewers know when older footage is mistakenly portrayed as a current event.

Social media platform X has a similar feature called Community Notes through which it allows select contributors to add context to posts including tags such as “misleading” and “out of context”.

The notes [feature](https://tradingherald.com/meta-introduces-broadcast-tool-channels-on-whatsapp/) on YouTube will be available initially on mobile to users in the U.S. and in English. In this phase, third-party evaluators will rate the helpfulness of notes, which will help train the systems, before a potential broader rollout, YouTube said.

Viewers in the U.S. will start to see notes on videos in the coming weeks and months.

(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)


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