Sections & Playlists
Curating Your Content
In addition to the channel trailer, we’ve enabled greater control over how your content is displayed to Channel visitors. This is primarily achieved through the launch of a feature we’re calling “Sections” of content.Sections
The Browse tab of your Channel is yours to curate. For unsubscribed viewers, you may choose to enable a Channel trailer above the fold. You may also organize the rest of your videos and present them in groupings known as “Sections.”You can think of Sections as a snapshot of a category or section within a Channel. Sections can contain Playlists, videos or both. For instance, you might want "my music videos" and "my comedy videos" as separate Sections. Custom Sections are created by selecting content with the same Tags (which are detailed below).
When you click on a video in a Section, you will be taken to the video’s watch page. From there, you may select your next video on-demand (via search, navigation back to Channel, related videos at the end of the player, etc.). Additionally, “More From” will appear on the left hand side of the watch page, with more videos from the Section from which you came.
Sections give you much more control over the order in which your content is shown on your Channel and how groups of related content are shown on your Channel. Sections have a few different layouts that you may choose from for how they are displayed on the home tab of a Channel. Regardless of the layout, the title of a Section can always be clicked on to take the viewer to the videos tab where they will see the full collection of content in that category or Section.
Tags
You may apply Tags to a video or group of videos to indicate their theme via the new ‘Tag’ option in Video Manager. Users of GMail “Labels” will find this feature somewhat familiar. Getting There: Login to your YouTube account > Click on your Channel Icon or username in the top right corner of the page to expand a menu > Select “Video Manager”To apply Tags, check the box next to the video(s) you would like to Tag with a particular theme and then select the “Tag” drop down menu. From there, you may select existing Tags or create a new Tag.
Setting up Sections
Sections put you in control of what content shows up where on your Channel’s “Browse” tab. Edit & Update: Login to YouTube > Navigate to your Channels Browse view > Hover over a module of content to expose the 'Edit' buttonThe first order of business is to determine what content you want to display on your Section. You may choose from predefined categories like “Popular uploads,” “Recent uploads,” “Likes” and other categories. You may also choose to compose a Section of content based on a Tag.
You may also select the layout for your Section. Toggling through the options in the “Layout” drop down menu will update the ‘Preview’ field below. You may arrange your content into a horizontal row or a vertical list.” Tip: Consider grouping videos for product families, promotions, videos featuring the same talent into their own Sections of content to create opportunities to highlight threads that run through your videos. You may also wish to look at the Comments report in YouTube Analytics to drill down into the word clouds for your most popular videos. These can highlight key themes of your videos around which you may wish to curate content into Sections based on user interest and sentiment.