YouTube Adds Subscriber-Only Chats And Polls For Livestreamers, Expands Clips Feature To More Gaming Creators

Creators who livestream on YouTube now have access to three “highly requested” features, the platform says.

First up, all streamers can now choose to limit participation in their live chats to subscribers only, for both regular streams and scheduled Premieres.

Live polls are available to all streamers, too. YouTube says it hopes creators will use polls to “interact with your chat audiences in new ways,” like letting viewers make crucial real-time decisions during video game playthroughs.

All gaming creators with at least 1,000 subscribers now have access to Clips, a feature YouTube first unveiled in January. Clips gives any YouTube user the ability to highlight between five and sixty seconds of content from creators’ uploads and live streams. Creators who do not want their content clipped can disable this feature in YouTube Studio.