- Welcome to YouTube Creator News,
where I keep YouTubers like you
up to date with everything that's happening on YouTube
that impacts you as a content creator.
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Today, I have some really exciting news to share with you.
This is a huge deal.
When the information first broke
about a handful of months ago,
it put a lot of content creators like myself
into a little bit of a panic
just because it was an attack
on YouTube's recommendation system.
We're gonna be talking about that.
We're also gonna be talking about Google deleting accounts
and what you need to know about that
because some people are are freaking out about that as well.
And there's some analytics updates
and some other YouTube creator news
starting right now with an upload issue.
So if you had problems uploading yesterday,
just as a heads up, that problem has now been fixed
you can go ahead and upload.
There was just a glitch in the system
that made it to where when you were trying
to upload videos it wouldn't work.
Or when you uploaded the video
it would just stay processing forever.
So if you're somebody that dealt with that,
everything is fixed now you have the go ahead to go ahead
and you know, go ahead and get that content uploaded.
In addition to that,
YouTube has no plans to delete your YouTube videos
if they are unactive and the accounts
that are Google accounts that have YouTube channels
with videos on them, those are also not getting deleted.
So Google is, however.
So if you have old Google accounts
that you haven't been active in within two years
then Google's actually gonna go
and start removing those.
So that includes like your Google drives
and you know, all that stuff.
So just make sure that if you have old accounts
that you don't want taken away
that you do log into those,
get some activity on those accounts.
But, as it relates to your YouTube channel
which is the important part,
for what it is that we are doing here today,
you have nothing to worry about as it comes to YouTube.
Even if you haven't uploaded your videos in a while,
whatever, they are not taking down YouTube channels
or YouTube videos as part of this particular update.
So don't worry about it, don't freak out.
People were going nuts on Twitter over this,
but it's not, you know, a big deal.
Everything's fine as it relates to YouTube.
They even updated the article as you can see here
from our friend Rene Richie, the YouTube creator liaison.
So make sure you follow him on Twitter for situations
like this so you can make sure that you are staying
up to date in like real time
when things like this are happening
and people start, you know
kind of losing it a little bit.
Next up, let's talk about the elephant in the room.
So when it comes to the Section 230 update,
so just as a quick heads up,
for those of you that are not familiar with what this is.
So all social media outlets
that recommend content to people, that includes YouTube,
TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,
anything that has a feed of any kind
where they're recommending content to people,
there was a lawsuit to where those recommendation systems
were under attack because the social media outlets
like YouTube, when they recommend content to people
they actually got a lawsuit where they were claiming
that because YouTube recommended certain content to someone,
it caused someone to take certain actions
which then resulted in a horrible act of violence.
And this lawsuit, if it had went through
the way that they were hoping,
it would've actually changed the way that all
of these platforms are able to recommend content.
So at the time that that came out a few months ago,
it was like, oh gosh, you know
this could essentially break YouTube
and how we get our videos in front of people.
So it was a big scare.
However, I do wanna let you know
that the 230 is not getting changed in any way right now.
So basically they've decided on that
and they've said that they are not going
to reinterpret the Section 230 for that particular case
and they are not going to blame the social media networks
as of right now when they do recommend content to people.
One of the things that were said about this
and this is you know from Clarence Thomas, he said,
"If aiding and abetting liability were taken too far
then ordinary merchants would become liable
for any misuse of their goods and services,
no matter how attenuated
their relationship with the wrongdoer."
He said, "Those who merely deliver mail
or transmit emails becoming liable
for the content of those messages, or even
people witnessing a robbery becoming liable for the theft.
There's no allegations that defendants treated ISIS
any differently from anyone else.
Rather, defendants relationships with ISIS
and its supporters appeared to have been the same
as their relationship with their billion plus other users,
arms length, passive and largely indifferent."
So that's a humongous breath of fresh air
for those of us, especially if you're somebody
that does this as, you know, your job
or if you're somebody that wants to do this as your job
you know, that was something that had, you know
a lot of people on edge.
So really thrilled and excited and delighted
to share that news with you because it's super positive
and I'm really happy of the outcome of that
as I'm sure you know a bunch of people are.
Next.
So on YouTube as it relates to features
that they are rolling out.
So we have some analytics updates.
So the very first one here, and you should have this
in your account right now, YouTube shows formats now
that your viewers watch on YouTube.
So this is a screenshot of mine.
So you can see you guys are watching videos and shorts
and a lot of you are watching lives, but not everybody.
So with that, just use this information to help you better,
you know, tune into the type of content or the format
of content that your viewers respond to best.
So if you find that like your viewers are just
not watching shorts, then it doesn't make a lot
of sense for you to make you know, shorts.
If you find that your viewers don't watch
live streams at all, then in that case, you know,
it doesn't make sense to do a bunch of live streams
if they're not interacting, right?
So that's how you use this particular graph.
Fortunately for me, it seems like all you guys, you know,
watch pretty much everything, which is a huge, huge win.
So the next update that we have as it relates
to the analytics, and I actually messed up
the graphic here, is that you can now see
your revenue by the revenue source.
So what that means is,
I'm changing it right here in real time.
There we go.
So what that means is, in the past you had to kind of dig
into like advanced mode of your analytics and try
to figure out exactly where your money was coming from.
Now they have it separated through these little, you know
token things that you see up here,
some toxic stuff on my finger I think.
But you can see up here
that they have the information.
So they have these little, you know, tokens up there
at the top and when you click on that
it'll show you the revenue generated
from those specific things.
So you see super chats up there, you see,
you know YouTube ads on there, you see super thanks on there
but it just gives you, you know
an idea of what it is that people are, you know,
responding to in terms of monetization with you
and not really what people are responding to,
but where you're collecting the most money
and all of that on your channel.
So you can use that as a way to say,
Hey, I have this whole opportunity here
that I'm missing out on.
I'm not even using that, but you know
I could use that as a way to generate more revenue
like memberships and things like that.
They have also, oh that's why it changed it on both of them.
Okay, so the next thing is they also made it
to where you can deep dive into your remixes.
So if somebody's remixing your content
you can actually go and look and then
if somebody remixes their content, then you can see
you know, the views that have come in from that.
So it just kind of helps you keep better track
of your remixes.
And if you're somebody that makes viral content
or content that ends up being viral in nature
and you have a lot of people on remixes
and things like that, then you can use this information
as a way to see what people, you know get triggered by.
So then that way you can say, well if people remix
this type of thing a lot and then you know,
people are remixing theirs and remixing theirs and so on,
then that type of content is a good fit
in terms of just getting a lot of wide distribution.
So you wanna make sure
that you are keeping that in mind as well.
I also wanna let you know
'cause I always keep you guys updated on, you know
things that are happening in tools as well.
So vidIQ just dropped a chat bot,
they had their AI coach
but they just did some really cool stuff with it
I wanna let you know about, and I'm being, you know,
agnostic here, you know, when it comes to these things.
But basically when I tried to use this for the first time
'cause I got the email and I go in there and I start asking
about, you know, what should my next video be?
And it tells me, based on the content
that's performing on your channel,
this would be a good idea for your next video.
And it gives me like an additional
block of information saying, you know
some additional ideas you might want to consider
are blah blah blah, really amazing feature.
So you can see right here in this screenshot
I said, hey, what are my best videos in audience retention?
And then it gives me a reading basically saying
over the last 30 days these are the videos
that have had the best, you know retention for your channel.
So then you can use that information and say,
hey I'm gonna go in and take a look and see
you know exactly what's happening on my channel
and ask it questions related to the data
that's happening on my channel
so that I can use that information to make better videos
for people or to get more reach or whatever the thing is.
You can try this out for yourself.
I've got a link right at the very top of the description,
if you go down to the description box,
where you can go check this out, it's super amazing.
Like I was really blown away
at just how accurate this thing is
and just how much information
it was able to feed back to me.
So I really recommend that you go check this out.
But again, that link's down in the description.
I do wanna let you know that as soon
as this stream is over here, actually in seven minutes,
I'm going to be doing live channel reviews
over on the Tube Spanner YouTube channel.
It's pinned at the very top of the chat right now.
So if you are interested in getting a channel review
or you wanna watch some channel reviews
in the background or something like that
you can go ahead and head over there.
It's gonna just redirect you as soon as this is over.
And if you're coming in on the replay,
as long as it's within about an hour or so
after this new segment, you know, finishes
then you'll be able to come over
and participate over there as well.
So I welcome you to, you know
come and hang out and that's the news.
Have a great weekend and I will see you next time.