The growth of online video viewing continues, and with the entry of new competitors, platforms are rushing to attract both users and content creators. That’s why YouTube’s new real-time hit counter was announced today.
YouTube’s new real-time hit counter is in testing
According to , YouTube’s new real-time hit counter is currently being tested, an option that will allow users and creators to know exactly how many people are viewing the video content at the same time as them, since until now only the total number of users who had seen it could be known.
At the moment the test of the real-time hit counter of YouTube has only been detected in your application for Android devices and it will show the number of people who are watching the video with the title “watching now”, just below the title and above the buttons “I like/dislike” directly in the app.
YouTube’s real-time hit counter is small enough not to create distractions according to the screenshots that have been shown. Apparently this counter is in a trial period to only a small select group of Android users and it is not yet known if this function can be activated or deactivated by video creators.
How the new hit counter could help YouTube
this new counter can offer spectacular results: in addition, it can boost content creators just starting out to explore this field and thus know what acceptance your video has.
Another explanation for the importance of this new YouTube real-time hit counter will be that it could be planning give more importance to the transmission of live videosand you could even replace the number of total views with this new metric.
At the moment, it is only possible to know the number of users who are accessing the video from the Android platform, and not those who view it from the web, iOS or any other version of the video application, perhaps it will be a matter of time before Google launches this new functionality for all users, or it will simply be forgotten.
If you want to know if you are one of the users who has this trial version of YouTube for Android, all you have to do is access your YouTube app on your mobile device, click on any video you want to see and you can check if the counter appears under the title of the video.
And while YouTube implements new features, Facebook is moving forward with the new , which it intends to offer streaming content with own series to start venturing into the battle to be the preferred platform for users to watch video. Will it make it?
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