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Hi, there. David Walsh here once again
from davidwalshonline.com.
And in this video, I'm going to reveal
the latest updates from VidCon 2019
that are happening to the platform.
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So, VidCon has happened once again. This is
the 10th iteration of this annual event.
And YouTube have taken this opportunity
to reveal updates to the platform.
Pretty much the main focus of these updates
is how creators can make more money from
YouTube other than from AdSense.
It looks like YouTube are adding on
additional services on functionality
on the platform so that creators can
make more money from the YouTube channels
without having to rely on advertising money.
So, let's hop into these updates.
So, the first one is channel memberships.
If you have a channel with more than
50,000 subscribers, you have the ability
to add a membership where you can charge $4.99 per month
and give additional content to those members.
This seems to have been successful enough
that YouTube are now rolling out
more memberships levels so that
you can charge more money,
give more additional content to those members
so that you can make additional revenue
from your YouTube channel.
So, for larger channels who want to give
additional content to their members,
this gives them even more levels that
they can add and give more behind-the-scenes content
or whatever else that they want
to show in those levels to those members.
Now, the minimum requirement is 50,000 subscribers,
but I do see that dropping over the next while.
It may come down to 25,000 or 20,000.
And eventually I would expect it to come down
to 10,000 subscribers.
So, if you're not quite there,
you can still work towards it,
and that's always a good thing.
But for creators in the future, who you may be
starting out now,
I can see that around 10,000 subscribers
is where you're going to be able
to have those membership levels
on your YouTube channel.
The next update is Super Stickers.
So, if you have Super Chat on your YouTube channel,
you are now able to add more stickers
and make more revenue
from those stickers on Super Chat.
Super Chat has now become the number one
revenue stream for over 20,000 channels
on YouTube, with 90,000 channels
receiving revenue from the Super Chat stickers.
This seems to have been the most successful
update that YouTube have brought out
for creators for them to make money.
So they're rolling out more stickers
so that more YouTubers can make additional revenue
from Super Chat. As of yet, we don't know when
this will be rolled out, but I'm sure there'll be
an update from YouTube sometime in
the near future about it.
The next update is additional merch vendors on YouTube.
YouTube launched this merch shelf functionality
last November, and Teespring was the only
vendor you could use to have merch on your channel.
So YouTube has opened their doors to more
merch vendors making it more competitive
so you get better prices for your merchandise
that you're selling on your channel.
So, the profitability of your merchandise
that you're selling on your channel will be a lot more,
hopefully, with these new vendors.
I would expect more vendors to appear on the platform
over the next coming months making it easier
for creators in different parts of the world
to have a merch vendor that's in their country
sending products to their fans
in that country, as well.
The next update is YouTube Giving.
YouTube Giving is where you can donate some of your
YouTuber revenue to good causes, charities, et cetera.
YouTube announced that they're going to
roll this out of beta and into production
so that you can donate some of your monies
towards good charities or whatever like that.
Now, because YouTube/Google will be handling the
payment processing, there will be zero money
taken out of those monies going to the charities,
so all the monies will actually go to them
without any processing fees.
The last update that I think is actually quite
big but wasn't made much of at all is
new YouTube Learning Playlists.
Now, I'm in the how-to space. And anyone who
is in the how-to space on YouTube should be
over the moon with this brand new update.
So, it's going to be a different style of playlist
where you can put in your videos into that playlist,
and it will play those videos as if it was
a tutorial or a learning sequence of videos.
This gives creators in the how-to space
the ability to be able to put their videos
in sequence so that their viewer can
go through steps in a tutorial, and go from
beginner all the way through to the end
with those sequence of videos.
Now, for anybody in the how-to space,
this is amazing, because your watch time is
gonna go up, and your recommended videos on
the right-hand side are also gonna go up, as well,
when using these learning playlists.
YouTube have recognized that the how-to space on
YouTube has been growing year on year,
and they are rewarding us, the how-to creator,
with these playlists to keep people
on the platform even longer.
So, there you go. There are your updates
from YouTube from VidCon 2019.
Which one of them are you excited about?
Let me know in the old comments area below.
I'd love to know which one you are
looking forward to or have on your channel
that you're using.
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or anything else to do with YouTube,
make sure to pop that, also,
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