YouTube is testing a new way to recommend videos while you watch

Google is as soon as once more experimenting with new YouTube Premium options, and this time, it’s all about discovery. Introduced immediately, the brand new function is rolling out to Android customers and provides really useful movies instantly inside your “Now Taking part in” queue.

Whenever you add a video to your queue after enabling the function, now you can open that queue to find a number of really useful movies primarily based in your viewing habits. It’s a type of small modifications that might, in idea, make it simpler to search out what to look at subsequent with out hopping again to the homepage.

Curious to see how effectively it labored, I queued up a WWE wrestling clip and a music creator’s video, anticipating suggestions that matched that blend. As a substitute, the options felt extra like my typical homepage feed reasonably than being tied to the particular movies I had lined up. Nevertheless, after I began with a music-only queue, YouTube reliably saved suggesting extra songs.

It’s value noting that these really useful movies aren’t mechanically added to your queue or set to auto-play as soon as the queue ends. So whereas it does prevent a visit again to the homepage, you continue to should manually choose the following video as soon as your queue runs out.

This function is out there until April 7 for now, and it’s solely rolling out to Android units. In associated information, YouTube has prolonged its Sooner Playback Speeds on Cellular experiment till April 7 too, letting customers crank movies as much as 4x velocity (for individuals who benefit from the problem of deciphering chipmunk-fast dialogue, I assume).

As with many YouTube Premium options, each of those options are nonetheless thought-about experimental. Whether or not they turn into everlasting will doubtless depend upon how helpful customers discover them, or how a lot suggestions Google will get on what nonetheless wants work.