You'll no longer be able to upload a new YouTube Story starting June 26. After that, anything still up will die off after a week.
YouTube today announced that it’s going to kill off its Story feature — like the similarly named Instagram Stories, basically its answer to Snapchat — starting June 26. That’s the last day you’ll be able to post a new YouTube Story. And seven days after that, any story that already was live will die an unceremonious death.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be an alternative to a full-blown YouTube video or a smaller YouTube Short. YouTube is pointing creators to “YouTube Community posts” instead, which it says “are a great choice if you want to share lightweight updates, start conversations, or promote your YouTube content to your audience.” Community posts essentially are ephemeral updates that also allow for text, polls, quizzes, filters, and stickers.
Recommended Videos The help post announcing the sunsetting also says that YouTube Shorts did better than Stories, too, and “on average drive many times more subscribers than Stories.”That’s sort of par for the course for products and services in the Google ecosystem. If they’re not performing, they’re sent to the Google Graveyard. But usually not until they’re renamed once or twice.
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