YouTube's built-in Sharing and Messaging system has had a long history: after being privately tested for a many months, it went live in Canada then became official for everyone in August of 2017, and finally was bundled with notifications in the new Activity tab. However, through it all, it has remained a mobile-only feature, available to Android and iOS users. If you were on your desktop, you couldn't share a video with your YouTube contacts easily, see what they sent you, or reply to their messages. That's finally ending now.
Read MoreVideo: YouTube's New Share Tab Brings Chat To YouTube
If you've been reading AP in the last 24 hours, you probably saw our hands-on post with YouTube's new Share tab - it's actually very neat. But if you wanted to see and hear the new share tab and chat features explained, just check out our YouTube video, in which we explain YouTube, on YouTube, for you. I'll let Mark take it away.
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