- Welcome to YouTube Community News,
where I keep YouTubers like you
up to date with everything that's happening on YouTube,
that impacts content creators.
We've got some really exciting news for you today.
It seems like I've always got exciting news for you,
but YouTube is pushing out
tons of updates and they are awesome.
So if you're a YouTube content creator
and you wanna stay up to date with all of this,
make sure you subscribe.
So, the very first thing that we have on our list today,
so we can go ahead and just jump right into it,
is short comments.
So what this looks like
is you can now, with the YouTube shorts feature,
you can make content by responding to your viewers
and that content is going to end up in the short shelf
where you have the opportunity to get views.
So, the win with this,
is this gives us a chance to communicate
at a more deeper level
with people that are asking us questions
or just interacting with our comments.
That also gives us the opportunity
to highlight particular people.
Right now they're not showing channel names
on there or profile pictures,
but this is a humongous step in the right direction
to where you can go down into your comment section,
right now on your mobile device,
you gotta do this on your phone,
you go down into your comment section
and you hit the reply button
to any one of the comments that you have.
But once you hit that reply button
over on the far right hand side,
just like you can see on the screen right here,
right here on the very side of this bar.
The other side of that, I can't go over there,
'cause it's gonna cut off my hand with the green screen
but it's right over in the edge of the screen.
And you click on that and then you can make
a short to reply to the comment.
So what you wanna do with this,
or what you wanna keep in mind is,
this is content.
So this isn't a way to just talk to people,
this is something to where if somebody says something
in the comments
and you can make a piece of content about it,
that's what you wanna use this for?
You don't wanna just say, oh, hey, you know,
you said this was a great video, I super appreciate it.
And then you go on to move to answer another comment.
Don't use it like that, especially not yet,
because again these are going to the short shelf,
so if you wanna maximize this for the community benefit
in terms of that interaction
and for you in terms of it being a piece of content
for your channel,
make sure that you're making actual content for it.
The next thing on our list is, that's huge though,
but we've got more.
The next thing on our list,
and we've been waiting for this for a really long time,
is currently on a mobile device
you can see content sorting.
So from a viewer perspective, '
'cause all of us use YouTube
as well as make content for YouTube,
but from a viewer perspective,
if you go and you land on a channel page on a mobile device,
you have these tabs on there where you can select,
hey, I wanna look at videos,
or I wanna look at shorts, or I wanna look at live streams
and that's pretty much it on a mobile device.
Now they mentioned in a creator insider's video,
that they are going to be adding this to desktop as well.
So that it's going to make it easier
for people to find the content from you that they want.
As another part of this, let's say, for example,
that somebody's watching one of your shorts
and they're like, wow this is great,
I wanna see more shorts content from them.
Then in that case,
if they click in your channel name from the shorts
and then it lands on that shorts page,
which they already have already for us on mobile device,
you're gonna get like a full channel page display there.
If you have memberships enabled,
they're gonna see that button.
So basically each section, to my understanding,
is going to be turned into a full blown channel page
for that particular type of content.
So that's awesome.
So then that way it's gotta be better for us
to direct our viewers to that videos tab
or our channel page tab for some of this new,
the next stuff that I'm gonna be talking about,
but we can direct them directly to the channel tab
and then they can find the content that they want to watch,
that's gonna be rolling out in the fall.
The next thing that we have
is they've also announced
that they are going to be doing
a channel page update in general.
Now, as part of this,
they mentioned they're going to be adjusting
some of the navigation with it,
but they are also,
and this is really awesome,
they are also going to give us the option
to add a section to our channel page.
And what a section is,
if you're not familiar with the lingo there,
it's essentially a playlist
that you add to your channel page
that you organize your content into
to help people find your content more easily.
So what they are going to do
is they are going to add an option to add a,
For You section,
to your channel page.
So currently, by default,
your upload should be at the very top
of your channel page, right?
So once they make this adjustment,
the next thing you're gonna wanna have in that playlist
or maybe even at the top,
we're gonna have to experiment with this,
but the next thing that you're gonna wanna have
on your channel page is that For You
and the reason for this is
because let's say somebody's watching your content
and they land on your channel page.
Instead of them having to sort around
and try to find all the stuff
that they wanna watch from you,
YouTube is going to automatically curate the content
on your channel that they think is the best fit
for that particular viewer
and present it to 'em right there on the spot.
So they're gonna use all of the intelligence behind YouTube
to create that better experience for the viewers.
That's huge.
In my opinion as well
and the reason that that's huge
is because it's gonna help us get more views
because the content that we're putting in front of them
is gonna be more relevant
when they land on the channel page.
And they're not gonna have to look for it.
It's just gonna show up right there in front of 'em,
which is huge.
In addition to that,
they are going to be making an update
to the mobile home feed.
Now as a content creator,
this is something that you might want to think about
from a strategic standpoint
especially as they just start rolling this out.
So this is just something to consider.
And of course it's based on the type of content
that you put out in terms of,
if you wanna consider this or not,
but what the feature is,
and of course you can use this at your desire,
but what the feature is is for shorts content
and for vertical videos on YouTube.
It normally is where,
if somebody's scrolling through the feed
and there's a normal video or a vertical video,
then it looks like what you see right over here, right?
To where you have those bars over on the side
and then you have the image right there in the middle.
The update is going to be
to where they are going to crop in on the image.
So, all those black bars are gonna be gone on the side.
It's gonna crop in on the image
and it's gonna give a four by five display.
So think of more of like a rectangle than a square, right?
So it's gonna give a four by five display
which is gonna take up a little bit more screen real estate
right there in the feed as well.
So we might be able to use that,
at least as they're rolling it out,
'cause everybody will be doing it quickly.
But for those of you that are watching this,
as they start rolling that out, when they do,
you might, if you do make vertical content,
or if you are not currently making vertical content,
this might be something to experiment with
so that we can just have that,
those moments of grabbing just a little bit more attention
because we're gonna have a little bit more screen
real estate there in the home feed
compared to the vertical videos, which is interesting.
And one thing that's interesting to me about this
is with all these updates that they're putting out,
all these things that we're talking about every week
on all of the updates that they're doing
for content creators and their viewers,
they're going hard on this vertical,
on on the vertical content with shorts
and just trying to prioritize,
getting all of this stuff,
the vertical content in front of their users
is pretty interesting.
The next thing I wanna bring to your attention
is if you are someone
that is already using Creator Mix for your music,
that is our music service,
it's free for content creators.
If you are somebody that's already using that,
we put out a brand new techno album
that you can use in your videos
and in your live streams and podcasts,
anything else that you're making,
but this particular one is awesome,
but I think there's either 10 or 12 songs
as part of this update.
It's currently not available
on the Creator Mix YouTube channel,
it's only available inside of the website.
So you can find that at creatormix.com
and if you just wanna sample it, if you're like,
hey I don't wanna go over there
and see what it's like yet,
of course you can sample all of our music at any time
or just listen to it when you're driving around
or walking around or whatever,
on your favorite streaming platform
like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and so on.
For those of you that are in the community
in terms of, you watch my content on a regular basis
and you're trying to learn everything you can about YouTube,
there's a really good chance
You're probably familiar with Daniel Batal.
Daniel has a birthday today.
So I just really quick,
I just wanted to take a quick moment to highlight that
and just say happy birthday to Daniel Batel.
Hope that you're doing awesome, my man,
and happy birthday to you.
VidSummit is 11 days away.
D and I have our stuff booked.
We are getting ready to head over there ourselves.
This summit is 11 days away.
So next week, this segment,
I'm not sure if it's gonna happen,
or if it's going to just be a little bit different
in terms of how, what it looks like.
And so and all that, but VidSummit until 11 days away.
So we're gonna be heading to the state soon for that.
And if you're not familiar with VidSummit,
I have a link to it down in the description.
It's happening on September 27th to the 29th.
And it is a conference for YouTube content creators
or just video content creators in general.
Really incredible conference, in my opinion,
it's the best conference for video.
So if you are a content creator
and you can get to LA, September 27th to the 29th,
make sure you check that link down in the description.
It's not an affiliate link or anything.
So you can just go on down there
and just check out that link
and you will get that information that you need for that.
And that's the news, have a fantastic weekend.