The winds of change are blowing on YouTube. Google’s video service wants to renew itself to attract more users, in particular to convince them to buy YouTube Premium, with advantages such as access to YouTube Music, its alternative to Spotify.
One of YouTube’s priorities has always been to help the user find the next video to watch. That is why, every time we finish watching a video, a series of recommendations for similar videos appear; and on the side we find a large number of videos, displayed according to the YouTube algorithm.
But this traditional view could change very soon. EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre was able to use a new version of YouTube which completely changes the position and size of the basic elements of the video page.
This is the new YouTube
YouTube’s new design is actually not entirely new; Some users in the United States have already reported encountering it eight months ago, but until now it seemed to only be an experience limited to a few users in that country. We have now been able to confirm that The new design is also available for some users in Europe.
YouTube’s new design stands out by moving some of the basic elements of the watch page. The most striking thing is the new position of the title and description of the video, which now appear to the player’s right; This way we can read this information at the same time as we watch the video.
New YouTube page design
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An important detail is in the comments section, which is attached to the video description and also appears to the right of it. Originally, only the featured comment appeared; but in the version that we were able to test this has changed, and now the comments section takes up the entire right side. This can be useful for reading comments that talk about specific details at a given moment in the video, for example, because this way we don’t need to go back up the page to replay the video.
The space that was normally reserved for recommendations is now occupied by the title, description and comments. It means that the recommendations are now under the video; Not only that, but they are now larger, with each video taking up more space and displaying the thumbnail better. The great advantage of this is that we can better see the thumbnails and click on the videos that interest us; but it also means we’ll see fewer recommendations in each video. However, at the moment YouTube has not confirmed whether this new version is the final version.
