Last week, YouTube came up with enhanced comment system filters and search option for channel owners. If you own a YouTube channel and want to filter comments, then this article and the video would interest you.
YouTube came up with the following new features for YouTube Studio comment section to filter on the basis of,
- Value: Value like search on word basis
- Question: Commentor asked a question in the comment
- Response: Filter comments that have even a single response
- Subscriber Count: Filter comments with Subscriber Count (commentor) at least 1K/10K/100K/1M/10M
- Channel Member: Commentors are Channel Members or not
- Current Subscribers: Comments by current subscribers or not
The same is displayed in the below screenshot for my YouTube channel.
According to YouTube’s official blog post,
Today, we’re launching new comment search filters in YouTube Studio: This is the top feature request we get from creators, and hope it makes it easier to find and respond to the comments that are most important to you.
To reach the YouTube comment filter options,
Step 1
Go to your YouTube channel and click YouTube Studio (Beta), as marked in the below screenshot.
Step 2
Now, you will reach the YouTube Studio (Beta) section of your YouTube channel.
Step 3
Now, click on the Comments from the left section. On clicking, you will reach the following Comments section.
Step 4
Keep the cursor where you can see FILTER and all the new comment system filters would be visible, as in the below screenshot.
New Comment Filters by YouTube Studio
Here’s the description of the filters.
Search (Value)
Value like search on word basis. Let us see an example, wherein we are searching for comments on the basis of a specific text, such as filter the comments with the text “good”,
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