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- What's up, Insiders?
Let's jump right in because if it's Tuesday, it's news day.
Last month, we introduced visual updates across YouTube,
including a new color for the Subscribe button,
a darker theme, and a handful of other updates.
Now, if you missed these changes,
we'll leave a video in the description
with more information.
To bring parity to the Studio mobile experience,
we're making a few updates there, too,
including rounded corners for thumbnails,
a darker experience in app, refreshed sorting chips,
and a bolder typography.
As with the previously mentioned changes,
these updates are visual only.
All functionality remains the same.
Now, we began rolling these changes out
to all creators on Studio mobile
at the beginning of December.
Leave us your comments and questions below.
Next, we're happy to announce
that we're adding a new feature
to make it easier for creators to know
at which processing stage their upload is in
and how long it will take to complete processing
in different qualities,
for example, SD, HD, or 4K.
You can now hover over the icons in the bar
at the bottom of the Upload dialog to see more details
about the processing status and estimated time to complete.
Now, how long processing takes depends on several factors.
For example, video format, video length,
frame rate, or quality.
But we hope this will help you to better understand
when your video will be processed.
Remember that you can already publish a video
once SD processing is complete.
It'll then be available for all viewers in lower quality
until higher resolutions are available.
This will be available to all creators
by the end of the week.
However, let us know if you have any questions.
Next up, we've mentioned our experimental Data Stories
on the channel previously.
If you missed the update,
we'll leave the video in the description.
As a quick recap, Data Stories
are insights aimed at helping creators, so that's you,
grow and improve your channel based on your analytics.
So we're thrilled to share
that we're expanding the Data Stories experiment
to include a weekly recap
highlighting number of ads, Live, Shorts,
and posts published, how many viewers tuned in,
percentage of new or returning traffic,
key drivers of traffic to the channel,
including videos or search terms, weekly revenue, and quiz
to make staying up-to-date on your channel
more engaging and fun.
This is available to a small percentage of creators
based on feedback.
We'll look to expand it further in the future.
Let us know what you think
and what you'd like to see highlighted
in Data Stories going forward.
Next, in order to help creators
better understand EDSA exceptions,
so that's content that would otherwise
violate community guidelines, but stays on YouTube.
Thanks to Educational, E;
Documentary, D;
Scientific, S;
or Artistic, A, context,
we've updated our external Help Center article
on how creators can add context.
Now, there's no policy change,
just tips and more detailed information for creators.
Check out the link in the description for more information.
Next up, we're happy to announce
that members will be available to purchase gifts on Android
rolling out over the next couple of weeks.
Previously, gift memberships
could only be purchased on desktop.
Viewers can still receive gift memberships on desktop,
iOS, or Android.
We're also experimenting
with allowing non-members to purchase gifts.
This will be available on a small number of channels
for a short time beginning soon.
Now, speaking of gifting memberships,
there are new ways for viewers to opt in
to be eligible to receive gifts.
The first being to add a customer URL,
or video descriptions, or pin in live chat
following this formula,
or click Join on the video or channel page
by going to the three dots on the upper right corner
and select Gift Settings.
From there, toggle to Allowed gifts.
Previously, viewers could only opt in
by clicking Allowed gifts
on any gift membership purchase announcement
during a livestream or premiere.
We'll leave more information about channel memberships
and gifting memberships in the description,
but leave us your feedback and questions in the comments.
Next, we've launched a new set of articles
which focus on supporting creators across each format type.
The team will continue creating content
for each format in 2023,
as well as provide tips
for creators in a multi-format environment.
Let us know if you've any questions on those resources.
And that's about it for this week's News Flash.
Now, as you can see,
we've been making incremental improvements
based on your feedback to our set.
We've got a new background,
we've got a better camera, and we have other props.
Now, if you have any more suggestions, improvements,
things that you'd like to see in terms of furniture,
or things we can get rid of,
let us know in the comments and we'll see what we can do.
But for now,
from the creators of YouTube to YouTube creators,
we'll see you next week.