- Alright insiders,
we are back with another exciting edition
of Creator Insider.
We're growing the channel,
we're being more responsive to your feedback.
And we're also really taking to heart
all of the suggestions that you've been making.
I also read in the comments that the production quality
has been getting a little bit better,
especially the lighting.
And I'd love to take credit for it,
but if I'm honest, it's just a reflection of the floor,
on a sunny day.
So, we'll put that down to some hacks
that maybe we'll put together
for a different Creator Insider video.
But for now, we will get back to some stellar updates.
All right.
So that first update we are gonna be talking about this week
is around the Create button.
What's gonna be happening is the Create button
is gonna be moving from the top right hand corner
to the bottom navigation.
Subscriptions is gonna be moving one spot to the right,
and Notifications is gonna be moving up
to that top right hand corner.
This was previously launched and tested in India only,
but now we're rolling it out globally
across iOS and Android.
This is in response to feedback we got from people
on this channel,
as well as through a couple of other sources,
that the current placement really wasn't intuitive.
All right, next up is the launch of Hashtag Landing Pages.
Now what this is, is a dedicated landing page
devoted to a certain hashtag.
We're launching this so that we can create
a more engaging experience for users
that might be interested in a certain hashtag.
Or when they see a hashtag on somebody's video
and they wanna click through,
they can see all of the other videos
that are dedicated to that hashtag.
It also provides a better platform for future launches,
if it's gonna be centered around a hashtag.
Next up, we have Shorts traffic source
is available in YouTube Analytics.
Now, this is really cool.
Because since Shorts launched,
what creators had been seeing in terms of the views
that were coming through Shorts,
was unknown in traffic sources.
And that's because it hadn't yet been classified.
For some creators, this was the majority of the traffic.
But from now on, when you go into traffic sources,
you'll see the views derived from your Shorts
classified as such, Shorts.
Next up, we have yet another launch.
Now this one is going to give creators the ability
to toggle mid roll ads on or off in studio mobile.
Now the benefit of this is it will give
more video level monetization functionality.
And, where am I gonna find this setting you ask?
Well, we're moving it from the top tab to an inline row
in studio mobile.
If you didn't watch last week,
you may not know that we've changed things up a little bit
when it comes to trivia and the questions that we ask you.
We thought one thing that might be more interesting
is hearing your questions
and getting an answer directly from the team.
Now we got so, so many questions,
if you wanna take a look at them go and look
at last week's newsflash.
And what we're gonna do over the next couple of weeks
is we'll be picking a new question to answer
at the end of every newsflash.
When it comes to the questions,
some of them are simpler to answer,
and there'll be a shorter answer,
and some of them are gonna be longer and complex.
Now, because of that reason,
we're gonna try and bake those questions
into different kind of groupings of uploads
that we would have on Creator Insider.
So for example,
we might bake them into
some of the search and discovery videos
that we do with Rachel and Todd.
Or we might do them with team X, team Y team Z.
But you're gonna find at least one of them here
on the newsflash until the end of the month, every week.
So let's move on.
This week's question, now you're gonna have to bear with me
because I'm gonna have to read some of this out.
This week's question was from DragoNate.
Hope I'm pronouncing that right.
Who asks,
"Do likes or dislikes do anything at all
"for the algorithm and discoverability?
"Or lack thereof of your videos or channel?"
Now that was a great question.
Rachel couldn't make it on, this week,
but she did write up a reply for us directly
to your question DragoNate.
So she said, "Likes and dislikes are part
"of hundreds of signals we consider
"when it comes to ranking."
Makes sense.
"For a given video our recommendation system
"learns a lot from how people choose to watch a video
"when it's offered in recommendations.
"How long and how much of the video the viewer watches,
"and if they're satisfied.
"Your overall video performance is determined
"by a combination of these factors."
Like today, we're not gonna be answering
every single question,
but check back every couple of days
and you might actually see an answer to your question
in the comments below.
So bear with us,
this is something that we're trying out,
we really wanna make sure that we're providing
meaningful updates to you.
So that's a wrap on this week's newsflash,
and we'll see you next week.