The creators of shorts, live streams, and regular videos will now have their own tabs on their channels, instead of being thrown together in a single list. The company says the change will make it easier for viewers to discover the types of content they are most interested in when visiting a creator's channel page.
If you went to a channel before the update, you would see a single tab labeled "videos," which showed you a list of all the user's uploads, including shorts, live streams, and regular-length videos. When you leave the page, the filter that lets you change the format of the list gets reset, so when you return, everything will be the same.
The change will make its way to more users in the coming weeks.
The one downside to this approach is that it could make it more difficult for completionists who like to watch everything on one screen. A lot of the creators I follow will create clips of their regular content, and upload it as shorts, and it was a bit of a hassle to switch to the videos tab, but it was a blessing for me. Users who just want to watch shorts will be helped by it.
The good news for creators is that the company will give them a cut of the revenue from ads that play in front of shorts. It could give the platform a leg up over TikTok, which currently pays creators via a creators fund, and lets them make some of their own money.
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