YouTube has boosted its options for avid gamers and live-streamers with three more features borrowed from Twitch, The Verge has reported. Going ahead, all streamers will be capable of restrict chats to subscribers solely, and create polls inside chats. On prime of that, streamers with 1,000 subscribers or extra will be capable of enable viewers to share clips. 

Subscriber-only chat has been accessible to well-liked streamers since May, however has now come to all customers. It could be helpful for streamers (notably smaller ones) as a approach to average and management a chat, whereas offering some motivation for viewers to pay. And as with different platforms, polls present a approach to interact with and get enter from customers. 

Meanwhile, clips are a great tool for discovery, permitting viewers to catch the gist of a streamer’s content material earlier than tuning in. At the identical time, it permits followers to share highlights to draw potential new viewers. While it is at present restricted to streamers with 1,000+ followers, YouTube mentioned it can ultimately roll out to all streamers. 

All of those options have been accessible for a while on Twitch, which has even experimented with subscriber-only streams. While that platform nonetheless dominates livestreaming with two thirds of all viewers, YouTube owned a couple of quarter of the market by the tip of 2020, as The Verge famous.