What Is YouTube Premiere? 

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What is YouTube premiere

In 2018 YouTube launched a new feature called YouTube premiere. And after that launched YouTube premiere feature has hit to YouTube creators like Strom.

If you don't know about YouTube premiere then in this short article I am going to tell you about YouTube premiere and some other questions that people used to asked me about YouTube premiere.

»What Is YouTube Premiere?

In 2018 YouTube added a new feature for video creators or a new way to publish video on YouTube called YouTube premiere.

If you're familiar with live streaming then you can easily understand the concept of YouTube premiere.

YouTube premiere is a combination of a traditional YouTube video and live streaming. Because YouTube premiere features are combined of YouTube live features and traditional YouTube video features.

If you watch TV shows then I think you know the fact that TV shows advertised themselves by giving their audience time when their will go live. And that way people become curious and they waited a long time just to watch that particular TV show.

And YouTube premiere do the same with their viewers. They announce to the viewers when they will go live on their channel and they give the reminder option of a few minutes or few hours to the viewers feed before they go live.

Now premiere is a premium type of feature for a OTG platform like YouTube. But it's makes sense as now YouTube is in a good place to replace traditional TV shows. They started offering television like content with premiere feature. And premiere is good for YouTube, for creators, for viewing experience that YouTube introduce to the world of YouTube viewership.

»What are the differences between premiere and live in YouTube?

If you're familiar with live streaming then you can easily understand the concept of YouTube premiere.

YouTube premiere is a combination of a traditional YouTube video and live streaming. Because YouTube premiere features are combined of YouTube live features and traditional YouTube video features.

Like you record your YouTube video before you publish the video on YouTube. similarly for live streaming, you basically play your pre-recorded video on live air with a live chat and live donation features.

»How to premiere a video on YouTube?

One thing very important to know about doing premiere on YouTube for video creators. And that is creators can't do premiere on a mobile device, premiere can only be done on a desktop device. But the viewers can watch your premiere on any device they like, IOS, Android, desktop, etc.

›First record a video and Click the "upload" button on YouTube.

›After clicking the "upload" button you'll see a drop down menu, from there select the "schedule" option.

What is YouTube premiere

›Then upload the prerecorded video.

›It will take some time to upload, during that time of uploading toggle the premiere button and set the date and time you'd like to release the video.

How to create YouTube premiere

Hit the premiere button after enter the title tag, description, and custom thumbnail, and when the processing of the video is done you video will go live automatically.

»Should I use YouTube premiere?

If you want a short answer of that question, should I use YouTube premiere or not? My answer to this question is "yes" you should use YouTube premiere. The reason behind this straight forward answer are benefits the the premiere feature offers to the video creators.

One of the few benefits is if you premiere your video on YouTube, people will get a notification from YouTube that this creator are going that particular video on the specific time. And most probably people will go to watch that video when the video will available on YouTube.

»Do YouTube Premieres affect views?

What premiere basically does, they live stream the video, but end of the premiere time, the video become a regular YouTube video.

So the straight forward answer to this question is "NO" YouTube premiere doesn't effect the views. Many SEO say premiere increase views and many says premiere decrease views. But honestly premiere just give viewers the capability to communicate on live video.

»How long is the YouTube premiere countdown?

During your Premiere a countdown started basically 2 minutes before your video go live with premiere. And your viewers can watch the video, rewind the video when the 2 minutes countdown is over. But your viewers can not fast forward the video.

»How long can a YouTube premiere be?

Rule for video length for premiere videos are no difference than the rule of normal YouTube videos. So as of YouTube rule your video can only be minutes or less if your YouTube account is not verified. And if you have a verified YouTube account you can upload videos up to 12 hours long and the file size can be as much as 128 GB.

»Can you change YouTube premiere countdown?

A feature called live redirect, which allows the video creator to switch from premiere to live streaming automatically. So the final answer is you can switch but you can't change the YouTube premiere countdown.

»What Are The Advantage And Disadvantages Of YouTube Premiere?

Honestly writing when I first started my first business YouTube channel two to three years back, back then I decided that I will not do premiere until I grow a bigger audience base.

›Advantage

●One of the few benefits is if you premiere your video on YouTube, people will get a notification from YouTube that this creator are going that particular video on the specific time. And most probably people will go to watch that video when the video will available on YouTube.

●You can connect with your fans more personally.

●YouTube premiere is great way to inform people that your video is coming soon.

●By doing premiering your video on YouTube, you can also create premiere video watch audience and that is a great benefit.

›Disadvantage

●Most important disadvantage (I thing it is) that I faced as an audience when I go to watch a premiere, I've waited 2 minutes. But off course that is how how YouTube premiere works.

●Most frustrating thing about YouTube premiere is that if there is no one to watch the premiere, it's absolutely useless.

»In Conclusion....

Now most important part of this article for some people, the conclusion. Basically when you upload a normal YouTube video your subscribers wouldn't get a reminder that the video will publish on the that particular date and time. But with this feature you can intensionally schedule the date and time of the video.

This feature is absolutely a great way to directly interact with your audience. And let them know that what time they will get the video they want. And that way you can reduce the chances of miss a video by your audience because you informed then the timing in advance. you can communicate with your loyal fan on live chat in real time that can help you to grow a loyal fan base further.

So at the end YouTube premiere is great feature by YouTube, it give a organic space where you can interact with your audience. And it also help you to increase your revenue that I think you you don't want to miss out.