- YouTuber News,
where I keep YouTube content creators like you up to date
with everything that's happening on YouTube
that impacts you as a content creator.
Got some really exciting updates for you today.
We're talking about growth opportunities
for all content creators who choose to take advantage of it,
a YouTube glitch that you should know about,
another awesome Shorts update, and more YouTube news,
starting right now with the bug that just recently happened.
So I do wanna let you know about this.
So between the August 23rd and 25th,
if you go into your analytics right now,
you're gonna see a glitch.
Don't worry, it's not just your channel,
nothing's wrong, nothing horrible is happening
or anything like that.
It's just a glitch that's happening
and it's something that they're working on,
so I just wanted to keep you up to date with that.
Next, we have a new monetization tab
that is showing up on mobile devices.
Basically, for you smaller or newer content creators
that are trying to get to the YouTube Partner program,
this shows you how far you are.
They give you a little meter
that you can see right up here on the screen.
They give you this little meter to let you know
how many subscribers you have,
how many watch time hours that you have
in order to meet those requirements.
That's kind of interesting.
If you are a content creator
that already has an established channel
that's in the Partner program,
then they are giving us this teaser as well
where they're saying
that they're going to be teasing some things,
like adjusting for ads and things like that
if you're already in the Partner program.
In addition to that, another huge Shorts update.
We're gonna be getting to the growth stuff here in a minute
for those of you that are interested in that information,
just so you know, in case you happen to just be joining us.
But the Shorts update, starting today,
you are going to be able to instantly,
and this just dropped 14 hours ago,
starting today, you're going to be able
to instantly create Shorts
from your clips on your mobile device.
If you're not familiar with clips, the clips,
or if you have clips disabled on your channel,
so make sure that you always have this enabled, by the way,
on your own channel.
But they are five to 60 second looping segments
that viewers create from your channel.
So basically, YouTube is encouraging us
to use these as YouTube Shorts
because they are pieces of content
that were impactful to people that have clipped them out.
Now, keep in mind, excuse me there.
Keep in mind, you can only use the clips
on your own channel.
As of right now,
you cannot use other people's clips for Shorts,
but in order to test this out,
if you are wanting to test this out on your own channel,
what you do is you can go and create a clip of a video
or a live stream that you've previously uploaded
that belongs to your channel,
click on the create Short icon
visible in the header of the clip panel,
and you can rewind this part if you need to.
Then the content of the clip is now imported
into the Shorts creation experience,
and then optionally, you can make more edits to it,
that kind of thing, adding filters and all that,
and then name and publish the new Short.
So basically, what you can do, just as that experiment
to see how it works on your own channel,
but anytime you notice that someone else
is clipping your content,
then you know that that's been impactful
to someone in your community,
then you can make a quick Short out of that.
So essentially, the community is gonna help you
be able to come up with content ideas
for your YouTube Shorts, which is pretty awesome.
But as of right now, you can only import your clips
into YouTube Shorts, just as that reminder.
Others cannot make Shorts from your clips either,
but they can remix your Short into a clip,
which brings me to our next huge topic of the day.
So you may or may not have noticed
that when you go into the video descriptions
of pretty popular videos right now on your mobile device,
one of the things that you are going to see
is that you are going to see something that looks like this
down at the very bottom of the video description,
where it shows a remix of,
where it's basically showing the Shorts
that have remixed from that particular content.
So the idea here is that any of the songs
that somebody has, that anybody has used,
so for example, this screenshot right here,
I got from a DJ Khaled video,
and in this particular situation right here,
there's a ton of people that have made clips
because it's a music thing.
But if anybody is making any type of content
and you're like, hey, this new music just dropped,
this artist that I love and that other people love a lot,
they're really popular, they just dropped this
and this particular song would be great
for a particular Short that I'm using,
then in that case,
if you're one of the first people in there
and the people respond well to your Short,
again, you gotta make sure you're making good content here.
That's always the rule, and never forget that.
But as long as people are responding well to your Short,
then you are going to have it show up here
as one of the options that people can watch.
And I'm assuming, I don't know this for sure
so I gotta make that disclaimer,
I'm assuming that just like everything else on YouTube,
the priority or the stuff that's gonna be front and center
is going to end up being the stuff
that people are responding to the most
in terms of having the best experience with or enjoying.
So because of that, don't just try to rush through it
to get it done.
Instead, make sure that you are putting in that extra effort
to just make a really good Short for that particular song
that you're trying to tap into.
Now, this same exact thing applies
when you are remixing videos from larger channels as well.
So anything that you're remixing,
this is gonna give you the opportunity
to slide up underneath their video descriptions.
Now, for those of you that have been on YouTube for a while,
you might start thinking, like I did immediately
when my brother Dee shared this feature with me,
and that is, and you can even see it
in the screenshot here already,
is that if you've been on YouTube for a long time,
if you've been around for a while,
you probably remember the comment girls from back in the day
where basically they had video replies
where you could just do video replies on YouTube,
kinda like TikTok does now.
And with the video replies,
basically they were called comment girls,
but they would go in there and they would essentially spam
all the comments sections with all their videos and stuff,
maybe dressing all crazy or whatever.
But this is probably gonna happen here as well,
so you might wanna go ahead and take care of this now,
or not take care of it, but take advantage of this now,
before it gets out of control, if it does.
I'm just throwing my hat in the ring, so to speak,
in terms of how I think this is gonna end up being used.
But as of right now, it's a great opportunity
for content creators.
Now here's the thing with this.
My brother Dee
actually just put a video together about this,
showing you more details and explaining it deeper
what it is, and showing you exactly how to use it
and how to fully take advantage of this.
So as soon as that video is complete,
I'm gonna link it in the description
of this stream right now,
and I'm actually gonna check to see if it's complete.
Okay yeah, so he's still putting it together.
But it'll be linked in the description
of this stream right now,
and I will put it as a card at the top of the screen,
and I'll link it at the end of this stream as well
once everything processes.
Now, in addition to that, as a quick tools update,
I do wanna let you know, if you are a Tube Buddy user,
they have just updated their fly out panel.
You can see the demo right here.
So if you're a Tube Buddy user,
you're in there messing with your videos,
you're going to see this little tab over in the side bar
that's going to give you the option to click on it
and it pops out.
And the really cool thing with this update
is they are sharing educational information in there,
they're showing some information on things
that you can do to improve and that sort of thing.
So this is a really awesome feature
and I'm just happy, or excited, I should say,
to share this with you.
So if you're a Tube Buddy user,
you'll see this in there already
because they're trying to help you get results
here on YouTube.
If you're not a Tube Buddy user,
I've got a link to them down in the description below
where you can try them out for free.
And as a content creator, you should be using Tube Buddy.
So the next thing I want to mention is that,
for those of you that watch this segment on a regular basis
or watch my content on a regular basis,
VidSummit is only 25 days away.
I do wanna let you know,
there's a link down in the description
for those of you that want to go but you can't go
because maybe the tickets are too expensive
or something like that.
Spreadshop, spreadshop.com, they're doing a giveaway
to where you can enter for a chance to win
free tickets to VidSummit.
So I've got links to that down in the description,
so if you are wanting to go
but it's just a little bit tight on the budget,
then you can throw your hat in the ring
on your chances of winning a VidSummit ticket there.
So again, I'm going to link to my brother's video right here
is where that will end up being,
so you can go ahead and click on that once it's available.
Thank you everybody for hanging out.
I'll be live streaming tomorrow at 9 AM Eastern,
and that's the news.