It may not be uncommon for you to not know what to watch on the popular video application YouTube. Rest assured, the hours spent aimlessly scrolling are soon over…
After adding voice commentary, YouTube continues to deploy its latest new features. The application is once again testing a new functionality, which will delight its most undecided users. How many times have you gotten lost among the millions of videos offered by the algorithm without knowing which one to watch?
Scrolling endlessly between YouTube content is a universal experience that all users have probably experienced at some point. Yet that wandering could soon disappear for good, with the app poised to add a whole new button that makes video searching simpler.
An ideal random reading for the eternally undecided
YouTube continues to renew itself to maintain its hegemony in the world of streamingand the addition of the “Play Something” button, or “Lecture Aléatoire” in French, confirms this trend. Thanks to this feature, currently in the testing phase, users will let the application choose their video for them. A way to save yourself the long hours of indecision that sometimes accompany searching for the right program to watch.
While YouTube is on track to have no less than a billion videos, it must be said that choosing good content can be tricky. With “Random Reading”, any creation can be designated, leaving room for discovery and novelty. This can be an opportunity to meet new YouTubers and expand your own catalog on the application.
YouTube could shed more light on forgotten and rarely viewed videos with its new update. The “Random Play” button could then encourage neglected creators not to abandon their projects.
A copy and paste from Netflix?
If the idea of integrating “Random Reading” seems ingenious, it is far from being new. Netflix, another major streaming platform, offered a similar functionality, if not identical in every way. Deployed in 2021 after a test phase, the button made it possible to launch a program randomly in cases of prolonged zapping and indecision. A year later, in 2022, “Random Play” disappeared from the platform, without explanation from Netflix.
Does this mysterious deletion reflect a certain uselessness? Does the “Random Play” feature encourage consumption or is it useless? YouTube seems to be banking on the first option, since the novelty will officially join the application in a few months. A risky path that could bear fruit.