Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR
- YouTube is expanding its direct messaging experiment.
- Previously only available in Poland and Ireland, it is now available in 31 countries.
Did you know that the YouTube mobile app previously had a direct messaging (DM) feature? It was introduced in 2017, but the plug was pulled two years later. Recently, YouTube gave DMs a second shot through a limited experiment back in November. Now the company is ramping up that experiment to include more users.
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The YouTube team (via PiunikaWeb) has announced that it is expanding November’s experiment to more countries. Initially, the test only included Poland and Ireland; now it covers 31 countries in total. This expansion keeps the experiment exclusively in Europe, so US users are still getting left out in the cold.
Here are all the markets where messaging is currently available:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
As a refresher, if you’re 18 or older and signed into your YouTube account, this experiment will let you message other users and share videos directly in the YouTube app. You can also extend an invite to your friends and share with them after they accept the invite. A notification will alert you if the invite has been accepted.
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