YouTube Creators

We’re excited to share that we’re rolling out shows to more creators! 📺 If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, and have playlists of high-quality videos that share consistent themes and stories across episodes, you can now designate those playlists as shows.

Shows display your playlists as beautifully designed featured series, structured by seasons and episodes. When you designate a series playlist as a show, you'll unlock enhanced features like:

🤩 A dedicated show page: Your series playlist gets its own dedicated show page, featured prominently on your channel.
🎬 Organized seasons and episodes: Your content can be grouped by episodes and seasons, making it easy for your biggest fans to keep track of episodes and jump back in wherever they left off.
✨ Stunning TV display: A new, made-for-TV banner will make your series look beautiful on TV screens.
👀 More reach for new fans: Shows can appear under the "Recommended shows" and "Continue watching" shelves on the TV Homepage, giving you more opportunities to reach new viewers.

You can easily create a brand new show or convert your existing playlists in YouTube Studio. For step-by-step instructions, check out our Help Center: goo.gle/4aSZRZq.

We're excited to see more shows across YouTube, so let us know what you're going to create next!

2 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 6,458

YouTube Creators

Set the tone with music on image posts! ✨ Starting today, we are gradually rolling out the ability to select popular licensed tracks to your image posts and carousels in the Shorts feed. Whether you are sharing a behind-the-scenes update or telling a visual story, you can pair up to 10 images with a 15-second audio track. 

Learn more about our previous update to image posts here: goo.gle/4fnEMcV
You can find full details on how to create image posts in our Help Center: goo.gle/4nAwkJb

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1 week ago | [YT] | 6,289

YouTube Creators

Creators: New ways to moderate your comments are here! 🔍 We’re rolling out new tools in YouTube Studio that use AI to help you more easily find, manage, and respond to comments based on their broader topic or meaning. When you go to your Comments page in YouTube Studio desktop, you’ll see a new "Search" filter option, while the traditional exact-match search field has been relabeled as "Keywords".

With this search tool, you can:
- Search by topic: Use your own words to find specific topics (up to 100 characters). For example, if you want to manage remarks regarding your personal appearance, you can type a phrase like "comments about my appearance" to quickly group and bulk-moderate them. You can also search for specific comments, like "questions about my equipment".
- Use suggested topics: Select suggested topics to quickly filter for themes like "Excitement and Enthusiasm" or "Negative feedback".

Plus, you can now select any comment to instantly "Find similar comments":
- If you spot a specific comment you want to moderate, click the three-dot menu and select "Find similar comments" to instantly find others with a similar meaning.

These updates are now available to everyone globally on desktop – learn more in our Help Center: goo.gle/3SapKNY and in this Short: goo.gle/4veSow4. These tools are completely optional and meant to make moderating your comments even easier; they won’t automatically remove or hide anything. As always, you can share feedback directly in Studio by clicking the thumbs up or thumbs down icons at the bottom of your search results.

Let us know what you think!

1 week ago | [YT] | 7,876

YouTube Creators

Creators, we're updating Channel Memberships pricing! We’re beginning to roll out these changes to new international market prices to better reflect current global exchange rates. This update aims to ensure global fairness and helps sustain your channel's long-term growth.

Here’s what this means for you:

- Existing Members: Your current members’ prices won’t change at this time. (Note: if a viewer cancels and rejoins later, they will be charged the newly updated price).

- New Members: Viewers joining your channel for the first time will see the newly updated prices tailored to their specific country.

- New Pricing Controls: We heard your feedback! You no longer have to delete a level (and lose your existing community) just to change your price. You now have the flexibility to adjust your level prices for new members once every 12 months.

You can check YouTube Studio to review your updates and recommended prices. These changes will be rolling out over the next few weeks, so if you don’t see them now, please check back. Learn more about these changes here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9355861

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 11,143

YouTube Creators

Streamers: Side-by-side ads are now available to live streams on mobile devices, as well as low and ultra-low latency streams!

What you need to know:
- Following last year's rollout for desktop and TV, side-by-side ads now automatically take the place of fullscreen mid-rolls on eligible mobile live streams across all latencies: goo.gle/4up3oqk This new way to serve mid-roll ads is less disruptive and replaces our existing fullscreen mid-roll ad breaks.
- Side-by-side ads will only be shown on live streams; they won’t be served on VODs or Shorts.
- Side-by-side ads will be enabled automatically on eligible streams if you have mid-rolls enabled on your live stream: goo.gle/4uj9Dfb (Note: This must be enabled before the stream begins; otherwise, fullscreen mid-rolls will be served). You can enable mid-rolls by following the instructions here: goo.gle/4uj9Dfb

Impact for your audiences:
- During a side-by-side ad break, the video player will shrink and the ad will run alongside the stream.
- The audio of the stream will be muted while the audio from the ad plays, then the video player will expand back and audio of the stream will be restored when the ad break has ended or the ad has been skipped.
- Live chat is disabled while the ad is running on Living room (unaffected for web and mobile).

We think this update will improve the viewing experience for your live stream audiences, so we hope you’re as excited about side-by-side ads as we are!

1 month ago | [YT] | 3,869

YouTube Creators

Nano Banana is now available in Effect Maker!🍌 If you haven’t explored it yet, Effect Maker is our web-based platform that lets you create and publish effects directly to YouTube Shorts.

We’re launching Nano Banana 2 within AI Image to help you build effects that transform your selfies into a completely new photo-realistic scene, era, or reality. 💫 With just a simple text prompt, you can start creating immersive effects for YouTube Shorts today!

How to get started:
- Visit the platform: Head over to effects.youtube.com.
- Select your mode: Choose the “Precise” mode within AI Image to start building.
- Check eligibility: Effect Maker is available to creators with access to advanced features in available regions. Learn more ➡️ goo.gle/4u8eejr

We can’t wait to see what you create. Let us know what you think in the comments!

📺 Check out our Effect Maker Tutorial Playlist to learn more about how to build effects on YouTube: goo.gle/4eeeNCz
💬 Join the Effect Maker Discord to connect directly with our YouTube Effects team and other effect creators: discord.gg/nkfwn3Hfhe

1 month ago | [YT] | 3,465

YouTube Creators

New ways to connect with your audience using image posts are here! 🖼️✨ We recently shared that image posts, including carousels, can now appear in the Shorts feed, and today we’ve added music to help you tell your story in even more dynamic ways!

Try these tips for your next post:
- Share more with carousels: Upload up to 10 images in a single carousel to help tell your story.
- Set the tone with music: Pair images with royalty-free music from the YouTube Audio Library or using Dream Track in eligible markets. 
- Add text overlays: Place text directly onto your images so your audience can follow along as they swipe.

Swipe through this post to see these features in action! These updates are rolling out to eligible creators on the YouTube mobile app. You can find full details on market eligibility and how to create image posts in our Help Center: support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124474?hl=en&re…

We can’t wait to see the stories you’ll tell! This is the first of many updates coming to posts. Let us know what you think in the comments!

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1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 6,015

YouTube Creators

Creators! We’re expanding gifts to horizontal live streams on the YouTube mobile app! Your fans watching in app on their mobile devices can now purchase Jewels and send gifts during your horizontal streams, giving you more ways to earn Rubies and connect in real time.

If you already have gifts enabled for your vertical live streams, you don't need to do anything! Gifts are enabled at the channel level and will automatically apply to your horizontal streams. If you haven't opted in yet, simply visit the Earn tab in YouTube Studio to sign the Virtual Items contract. Learn more on how to get started with gifts here: bit.ly/3OQVd6w

2 months ago | [YT] | 6,989

YouTube Creators

The Shorts Audio library is now on YouTube Create! This means you can choose from thousands of popular, licensed tracks and then publish directly to YouTube Shorts, all from the YouTube Create app.

Learn more in this Help Center article and updates below: goo.gle/481ARhf

What’s new:
• Entire Shorts Audio library: Access a massive catalog of licensed, popular music tracks directly in the editor. 🎵
• Precision Editing: Use "Slip Edit" to find the best segment of a song, or "Find Beats" to add visual markers for perfectly timed cuts. ✂️
• Flexible Audio Length: Add up to 60 seconds of music to your project, depending on the track. ⏱️
• Availability We are rolling this out to creators in over 20+ countries. Check out our Help Center article to learn more: goo.gle/481ARhf 🚀

How to use it:
1. Open the YouTube Create app on Android or iOS.
2. Tap Sound on the toolbar.
3. Select Shorts to browse trending tracks
📝 Note: To keep the licensed music in your final video, you must publish directly to YouTube Shorts. If you save a video longer than 15 seconds to your device, the licensed music will be removed to remain compliant with licensing.

Try it out now ➡️ play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.a…

2 months ago | [YT] | 4,641

YouTube Creators

YouTube Playables are now available as a mini-activity in vertical live. 🥳 You can now interact with your audience in real-time while playing games within your vertical live stream!

While streaming on mobile, you can play a game where viewers will see the game in full, along with a smaller view of you overlaid on top. This serves as a ready-made activity for creators who might be unsure about what content to create, or for anyone looking for a new way to interact with their community.

Just follow these steps when starting your live session:
1. Go live on your mobile device.
2. At the bottom, tap the Playables logo.
3. Tap Play a game.
4. From the options, select a Playable to launch the game.

This is now available in select markets; detailed instructions can be found in our Help Center: goo.gle/4czI5e1. Note: Not all Playables will be available for vertical live immediately. We will be continually adding more games to the list!

We can’t wait to see what you play with your community! 🕹️

2 months ago | [YT] | 3,997