What Is Ft. Full Form On YouTube?

There are many things on YouTube that a new person won’t understand. Like there are highlighted comments that you might know what they mean. And then there is the ft. full form.

Are you reading the Ft. on YouTube as ‘Feet’ or ‘Foot’? Well feet might be commonly written as ft when it’s about measuring things. But when ft. is mentioned in a YouTube title it doesn’t mean the measurement of feet. You can tell that by context but also by the way it is written. So what is ft. full form on YouTube?

When ft means feet it is written without the dot. But when you see Ft. in a YouTube video title it usually has a dot at the end. Let’s see ft. full form in YouTube and in what context is it written.

What Does Ft. Stand For On YouTube?

Ft. stands for featuring on YouTube.

The most common type of YouTube titles where you must have seen Ft. must be titles of music videos. When one music artist collaborates with another music artist they will add the other music artist’s name as a featuring artist, writing it as ft. [Artist’s name].

So the next time you see Ft. in the YouTube title don’t mistake it as any other abbreviation of ft. When ft. is preceded by somebody’s name then ft. full form is always featuring. The only time ft in a YouTube title will mean feet or foot is when the video is about the measurement of something. So context is very important to understand what ft. or ft means on Youtube.

Why Is Ft. Full Form Not Written On YouTube?

You might be wondering what’s the point? Can’t artists just name the featuring artist as it is without adding the Ft.? Or maybe you’re wondering why ft. full form is not written.

Writing the full form takes more space and might be inconvenient for YouTube SEO.

Artists don’t just write the featuring artist’s name along with theirs. The featuring artist is only an invited guest for a portion of the song while the main artist is the owner of the song. The artist who owns a song gets more credit because it is her song while the featuring artist gets the credit for singing a portion of the song.

You will also see ft. on YouTube on some YouTuber’s videos. Those are also featuring tags. When two YouTubers collaborate the YouTuber whose channel the video is posted on won’t write their own name in the title but they will write the featuring YouTuber’s name in the title after ft. It is also common to add the link of the featuring YouTubers channel in the description. So ft. isn’t limited just to music artists on YouTube. Many videos will write ft. when featuring someone and not ft. full form.

Examples Of Ft. On YouTube

Let’s see some examples of how Ft. is commonly written in a YouTube title. So if you’re ever collaborating with other YouTubers you would know how to write ft. properly in your YouTube video.

If you look at Taylor Swift’s music video for Bad Blood the title says ‘Taylor Swift – Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar’.If you watch the music video you will see there are a lot of familiar faces in the video even Selena Gomez has a major role in the video but only Kendrick Lamar is written as ft. because he is the only one that sings beside Taylor Swift. Everyone else is mentioned by name and character in the description.

YouTubers commonly write ft. for another YouTuber when the other YouTuber is in the video for a major part. For example, this food YouTube channel did a video on Korean food and invited other YouTubers who have some experience with the cuisine onto their channel. This video was titled ‘British Cooks Try Korean Food & Cooking Methods!! Ft. JOLLY & Gabie Kook’.

Conclusion

So to conclude, in this article we saw what does ft. stand for on YouTube and how it is different from just the ft abbreviation. Now the next time you see ft, used in a YouTube title you know it stands for featuring so read ft. as featuring in your head the next time.

If you’re a YouTuber yourself or are aspiring to become one this will be extremely useful to you as you can correctly use the ft. tag when you feature other YouTubers in your videos. Ft. is majorly used in music videos but it is not limited to featuring artists on YouTube, even you can create a YouTube video for your channel and add the featuring tag that is ft. in the video.

Also, you can write Ft. as feat. as well. But you will mostly see it written as ft. to avoid taking too much space.

Are you a new YouTuber? If you make long informational videos you might want to add chapters to them.