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So today we have massive humongous news
as it relates to YouTube.
So if you are somebody
that makes videos for YouTube and you make shorts
for YouTube, even if you're not making shorts
this is gonna be something that you are going
to have to think about here is why.
So as of now,
so if you are not familiar with Todd.
Todd is the product lead
for YouTube home and recommendations.
He's been doing that job since 2014.
He just put out a tweet and that tweet
is a game changer for YouTube content creators.
You're this is gonna, this is insane,
and I'm so happy for this,
and I'm so happy for the community
in terms of YouTubers because of this.
So what he says in his tweet is he says, at VidCon I spoke
about YouTube building a bridge to better connect shorts
to long form discovery.
And we've talked in previous episodes
about some of the things that they're doing
to do that but check this out.
He says today, the first lane on that bridge opened.
Recommendations now consider recent long form videos
from channels the viewers watch in shorts.
Here's what that means.
In the past, when somebody watched one of
your YouTube shorts, the recommendation system
did not connect that viewer
to your YouTube channel in any way.
Of course, if they subscribed, they did
but if they just watched it
and then moved on, there was no connection.
However, now the recommendation system is going to
if you are making shorts and you're uploading YouTube shorts
and people are enjoying your shorts, because those shorts
typically push into newer audiences, what's going
to happen is now if somebody enjoys your shorts
in the system detects it,
now they're going to start recommending those viewers
your long form content.
So this is the real bridge that we've all been
waiting for when it comes to YouTube
and how it is that they are using shorts.
So again, if you're just joining us what this means
and I've got more news too,
but what this means is this means
that now if you are uploading YouTube shorts
when you have those shorts and you've all seen it, some
of you have experienced this, where you have those shorts
that go to the moon so to speak,
then what's going to happen is you're going to
have a lot of people that have interacted with those shorts
that have enjoyed those shorts that are now going
to be presented your long form content on homepages,
they're gonna be presented your content and you know,
next to other videos on your, you know, when they're
watching other videos on YouTube as well.
This is massive, this is such a big deal.
I can't even put it into words how big of a deal this
is for anybody that is uploading shorts right now.
Now speaking of shorts, the next thing
that we have on the, on the news today is that
YouTube shorts are going to soon have watermarks on them.
So a lot of content creators as part of their workflow
they'll upload something to TikTok and then download it.
It gets a watermark there they'll upload it
to Instagram reels, download it gets a watermark there.
Now YouTube is following, you know, following the crowd
so to speak and they are now making it
to where if you upload a YouTube short, if you download it
it's gonna have the YouTube logo on it,
therefore when you upload it to the other platforms
you are gonna be penalized for that.
So because of that,
what you need to make sure that you're doing
is if you are making long or sorry, if you are making short
vertical content that you are going to be repurposing
to other platforms, make sure that you make it
on your computer first or on your phone first
so that you don't have all those watermarks
and everything on it and then go ahead and put it
on all the different platforms that you're gonna
be putting it on, because if you put it on YouTube alone
then when you download it to put it on those other platforms
then you're gonna get that watermark on it.
So you wanna make sure that you are avoiding that.
In addition to this,
another thing that I do wanna let you know about,
for those of you that watch my channel
on a regular basis, Roberto Blake, who comes on my channel
from time to time in the live streams, he's, you know
heavy in the YouTube community.
I'm sure most of you know who Roberto Blake is.
He's dropping his first book on Monday.
So because of that, make sure that you're subscribed
to Roberto, make sure that you are following him
on Twitter so that you can, you know
be in the loop when he drops that book.
And if you are a content creator
we are just 39 days away from VidSummit
that's happening in LA, September 27th to the 29th.
So if you haven't gotten your tickets yet
and if you can show up, they have tickets for that.
And I encourage you to go
because I'm gonna be speaking there as well.
But also they have a virtual ticket
where you can just learn everything online.
But Mr. Beast is sharing information,
there's a huge list of content creators
there that are going to be, you know
helping you learn more about YouTube.
You can find out more about that
through if you go to vidsummit.com
or you check the link down in the description.
I've also got a bunch of other helpful links for you
as a content creator down in the description as well.
So if you are just joining this, I recommend
that you start this over and
then you start at the very beginning so that you can learn
about the huge game changing update that YouTube is pushing
out because it impacts you massively
as a YouTube content creator.
And that's the news.
So if you wanna make sure that you stay in the loop,
we've got more updates that you'll be able
to see right here once this video is processed.
So have a great weekend
and I will see you next Friday for more YouTube news.