June 24, 2015

YouTube Updates Channel Subscription Preferences

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It seems that YouTube has made a small change to YouTube channel Subscription preferences.

If you don’t know where to see this, when you subscribe to a channel a little cog icon appears like this that when clicked used to pop up a box that would allow you to choose two things.

1 – Have YouTube email you every time the channel uploads a video.

2 – Allow YouTube to only show uploads in the activity feed.

Here’s what it looked like before.

youtube subscrition preferences before

The Email with new uploads option was great, it meant I would never miss an upload from my favourite channels but now this is what it looks like.

Now here’s what it looks like now.

youtube-subscriber-preferences-new

‘Send me updates’ keeps it vague. Am I going to stop receiving emails? Where are these updates going to appear?

One of my favourite features on YouTube is that I can ensure that I never miss an upload from a YouTube channel where I checked the box that I wanted email updates. There are not a lot of social networks that give you that opportunity.

This could very much impact a YouTubers total channel views from subscribers.

At the moment YouTube hasn’t announced the change.

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